Extension:IM Status

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IM Status Release status: stable
Implementation	Tag, MyWiki
Description	Provides status buttons for several IM programs (AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN/Live Messenger, Skype, Xfire and Yahoo)
Author(s)	David Dernoncourt (PatheticcockroachTalk)
Last Version	1.3 (2008-10-05)
MediaWiki	1.12 to 1.15 (maybe earlier versions, but not tested)
License	GNU GPL v3 or later
Download	Official website Download snapshot Subversion [Help] Browse source code
Example	Test page on Wiki4Games
check usage (experimental)

The IM Status extension provides buttons to show online status of the user in various IM clients (AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN/Live Messenger, Skype, Xfire and Yahoo).

Contents 1 Usage 2 Installation 3 Code 4 Who's using it? 5 Related extensions 6 History

[edit] Usage

To embed an AIM button inside a MediaWiki article (or more likely a userpage):

<aim>AIM-Username</aim>

To get some help about the AIM button:

<aim help/>

The same syntax is used for all the other supported IM programs:

• <icq help/> (ICQ)
• <gtalk help/> (Google Talk)
• <livemessenger help/> (MSN/Live Messenger)
• <skype help/> (Skype)
• <xfire help/> (Xfire)
• <yahoo help/> (Yahoo Messenger)

Use Extension talk:IM Status to report issues or ask for help

[edit] Installation

1. Edit IMStatus.php: change $wgAimKey_presence and $wgAimKey_api to your own keys (see the source about how to get the keys).
2. Put IMStatus.php in your extensions folder (or in a subdirectory of it, as you want)
3. Add the following code at the end of LocalSettings.php:

   require_once( $IP."/extensions/IM/IMStatus.php");

   (replace, of course, with the proper path!)

4. (optional) For additional locales, grab the latest revision of IMStatus.i18n.php at Extension:IM Status/IMStatus.i18n.php

[edit] Code

Grab the archive at http://www.patheticcockroach.com/mpam4/index.php?p=78

• The latest stable version is 1.2
• There is currently no newer beta version

Note from the original developer: this extension is currently not maintained (at least by me), because it's been placed in MediaWiki's SVN, which I don't know how to use (I can't think of a less user-friendly piece of software than Subversion... except maybe proFTPd) without clogging my system (TortoiseSVN isn't exactly unintrusive...).

[edit] Who's using it?

(Please add your URL to the bottom of the list.)

• Wiki4Games.com, the video game wiki

[edit] Related extensions

Chat Extensions
AIM | ICQ | IM Status | Jabber | Skype | Yahoo

[edit] History

• 2008-04-26 (1.0-rc1): first version
• 2008-04-28 (1.1-rc1): added MSN/Live Messenger support
• 2008-06-10 (1.2-b1): added defined('MEDIAWIKI') check, fixed various typos, made the extension localizable
• 2008-09-21 (1.2): added German locale
• 2008-10-05 (1.3): imported into MediaWiki SVN, message loading delayed