Huzzah!
Life just gets better and better, doesn't it. Its now possible to rather indirectly use PHP in mIRC.
If you lot have read up on windows scriptlets you have noticed you can use Jscript/VBscript/LISP/ActivePerl/NetREXX etc to create COM objects in windows scriptlets.
mIRC as we well know can make use of COM objects - perhaps not as well as we'd all love, but well enough.
I stumbled across
http://www.zend.com/lists/php-dev/200205/msg00646.html and my jaw dropped as the implications hit home. WSH + PHP == COM OBJECT + mIRC = ... wow...
And if you used PHP + Java + WSH...
Imagine some of the web applications you could use right in mirc - SOAP services like a google search (Yes, GOOGLE offers a RPC API!), SMS services, email, even free faxing!
Say bye bye to messy sockets and use an api :P
So what do we all think?
Is there a non-care factor around?
Am I too excited over nothing?
I'm mostly excited because this now provides an easy way to bridge the gap between mIRC and the rest of the XML based world. Huzzah!
