XMPP

Hello,

We are developing a drupal site that needs to logs users activity from an external source. Imagine thousands (more than 800,000) users.

Hi! I'm new here ,at the Drupal community. My name is Alex, i'm a web developer from Russia. i decided to start developing my first Drupal module which implements Facebook Chat client. i'll be glad if someone wants to collaborate. And also i would appreciate if you give me some good advices to start.

P.S. Sorry for my English))

Might one be able to use jabber.org for xmpp resources in drupal?

I'd love to do that. :-)

I just read through the following article. Is all this complication really necessary? At some point there is mention of this solution being not very secure. Hmm, that does not inspire confidence.

Surely there is a better way?

http://www.dueyesterday.net/node/36?page=4

I've done a little apache configuration but even the first instruction has me lost.

"Edit your main site file and include the following information inside of a location block:"

I'm looking for a Drupal XMPP client that utilizes the theme layer. The XMPP Framework seems fairly well developed, but that is a glaring omission there from what I can tell. Any other options? Is there any work in that direction? Should I just contribute my own plug-in for that module?

On a related note, what XMPP servers do folks recommend?

Thanks,
Aaron

(Note: This proposal has been submitted)

// Idea Summary

The idea is to improve, and implement a feature-rich XMPP API (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) in Drupal 6. Such an API will allow communication between Drupal and other XMPP clients. This will give an alternative on how Drupal systems can notify users of changes/updates. Users might also remotely interact with Drupal, using IM. A generic API will also benefit the Drupal universe as other modules can hook into XMPP when needed.

Guess I overestimated a bit the amount of time needed to make the necessary changes to the subscriptions module. A live demonstration is now up and running on my development site. Please create a new account and follow the instructions posted here to see IM notifications in action.

This Friday I posted the third release of my library, which followed two days of public testing via the demo page. Unfortunately, very few people ran the demo and all of them were using gmail accounts, so really I didn't get any new information from that. Oh well... Today I updated the Drupal module to work with the latest library revision, documented the API, and created the server admin interface. After some testing tomorrow I'll commit all of this to Drupal CVS and make the first official release for my module. Following that, I expect to finish my patch for the subscriptions module either Thursday or Friday, which will give me two days to wrap up any loose ends before SoC final deadline.

-Max

In the next one or two days I'll release the last version (before SoC end) of my XMPP library, and before that I'd like to have a few people test message delivery to their jabber accounts. This test does not involve Drupal just yet, but it perfectly mimics what my Drupal module will be doing once I update it to work with the latest library revision. As I posted on my development site, this demo would be most useful if people ran it against servers other than Google Talk or Openfire.

This week was dedicated for the most part to the server implementation. As of today, my XMPP client is essentially finished and the server just needs a few more hours of work. Today I started writing the implementation of server dialback and router extensions, which are the last two pieces needed for a working server. My hope is wrap up the library in the next three days, followed by a day or two for testing and, of course, writing examples and documentation.

I forgot to post an update to this group last week, didn't I? My apologizes, but actually there wasn't a lot of new things to report. You can read the post on my site regarding all the "fun" I had that week. This week, as I'm moving closer and closer to the server implementation, I made a proposal to change the way the server communicates with the client.