Hai,
I've been playing around with login status indication or web presence of users.
I'v been playing around with AIM API which is
really for developers.
Online status with AIM :
<a href="aim:GoIM?screenname=screenname">
<img src="
http://api.oscar.aol.com/SOA/key=key/presence/screenname"/></a>
The screen-name is screen name of AIM user.
I've been exploring AIM ,there are many status icons
plzz go thru and check it out.
These services are like google maps/yahoo maps/flickr integration. Get an API key playaround with it.
( Mind these are restricted to no.of hits per day/weekly/
per email account )
Online status with YAHOO :
<a href="http://edit.yahoo.com/config/send_webmesg?.target=screenname&.src=pg">
<img border=0 src="http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=screename&m=g&t=2&l=us"></a>
Replace screename with yahoo user email to get the status
All these api's return a GIF/JPEG
Online status with SKYPE :
I've been eagerly waiting for skype next beta WEB API
( which got released not sure whether web presence API
is added or not )
Anyways feature already got implemented in MOODLE .
Skype needs a extra plugin jyve
( Scariest thing the installer is for windows)
http://plugin.jyve.com/
How to do it ( IN HTML ) :
<p style="text-align: center;">
I am currently :
<a href="http://skypecard.jyve.com/test123.htm">
<img border="0" title="Click Here for My Contact Info" alt="Click Here for My Contact Info" src="http://www.skypepresence.com/callbutton/t\
est123.gif" /></a>
<br />
on Skype
<br />
<a href="http://skypecard.jyve.com/test123.htm">
<em>Click Here For More Contact Info For Me.</em></a>
<br />Or :<br /> <a href="skype:test123?add">
<img border="0" src="http://jyvetools.jyve.com/addcontact.gif" title="Click Here To Add Me as A Skype Contact" alt="Click Here To Add Me a\
s A Skype Contact" /></a>
<br /> <a href="skype://test123?chat">
<img border="0" src="http://jyvetools.jyve.com/sendmsg.gif" title="Send Me a Text Message With Skype" alt="Send Me a Text Message With Sky\
pe" /></a></p>
* Just replace test123 with your skype name and put the html in a html block.
* You need to download the jyve skype plug-in in order to have the presence detection work. Download the jyve plug in (only for Window\
s I'm afraid) from http://plugin.jyve.com/?fuse=download and run the self installer.
This might be of great help to developers.
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=33259
Fun to work with ...........
Ashwin Kumar B V N
