[Web4lib] script recommendation

[Tom Keays]

UPenn has a page you might want to look at.

http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/contact/imstaff.html

It takes advantage of the the fact that you can feed your AIM username
to the AOL server and, depending on your online status, return one of
two different status icons. E.G.,

<img name="onlinestatus"
src="http://big.oscar.aol.com/yourusername?on_url=greenbullet.gif&off_url=redbullet.gif">

Presumably, the librarians at UPenn use Trillian or similar so they
can monitor accounts on multiple IM networks.

Tom

On 5/14/07, Sigrid Kelsey <sigridkelsey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a "who's on IM" script?  For example, a library patron
> could access web page with a list of staff and IM anyone who had a green
> light next to their name- and a red light would appear for librarian who are
> not at their desk or logged off?  My gmail does this.
>
> Preferences would be works with GAIM, uses PHP, and is free and open source,
> but any suggestions are welcome.
> thanks-
> Sigrid Kelsey
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Tom