Hacked winpopup to work with xmpp

DionV 2009-02-17 02:30:05 UTC #1

Working in a distributed environment, and not having had much success with eGroupware’s popup notifications, I wanted to get alerts another way, preferably to the instant messaging client we use internally. I had previously tried winpopup notifications in 1.4, but never got them to work (turns out I didn’t read the docs well enough and had not configured the backend), but with the upgrade to 1.6 I really wanted to get something working.

After reading more about configuring winpopup notifications, I realized it would not work for my situation, but it gave me the basis to rework the module to work with xmpp/jabber.

With the help of the XMPPHP library (http://code.google.com/p/xmpphp/) I was able to hack and slash class.notifications_winpopup.inc.php to send chat messages to users with their alarm details. I am not a programmer by any stretch, and the OOP in PHP5 was giving me a headache, but so far it works in my limited testing with calendar alarms.

Ultimately I will turn it into its own class file and modify my notifications class file to present XMPP as a valid notification method, but in the meantime, I have replaced the winpopup class with my hacked version for testing.

If anyone is interested in playing with this modified file, please let me know, I’ll be glad to post it somewhere (here in the list?) for you to play with.

DionV

jaytraxx 2009-02-17 10:06:25 UTC #2

Hi DionV,

Sounds nice. You can post the code here. Just attach the file. I could have a look at it and see if we can integrate it in the next version of eGW. The most important thing will be that the code works without the need of installing some “weird” addons on the webserver.

Thx
Bye
christian

DionV:

Working in a distributed environment, and not having had much success with eGroupware’s popup notifications, I wanted to get alerts another way, preferably to the instant messaging client we use internally. I had previously tried winpopup notifications in 1.4, but never got them to work (turns out I didn’t read the docs well enough and had not configured the backend), but with the upgrade to 1.6 I really wanted to get something working.

After reading more about configuring winpopup notifications, I realized it would not work for my situation, but it gave me the basis to rework the module to work with xmpp/jabber.

With the help of the XMPPHP library (http://code.google.com/p/xmpphp/) I was able to hack and slash class.notifications_winpopup.inc.php to send chat messages to users with their alarm details. I am not a programmer by any stretch, and the OOP in PHP5 was giving me a headache, but so far it works in my limited testing with calendar alarms.

Ultimately I will turn it into its own class file and modify my notifications class file to present XMPP as a valid notification method, but in the meantime, I have replaced the winpopup class with my hacked version for testing.

If anyone is interested in playing with this modified file, please let me know, I’ll be glad to post it somewhere (here in the list?) for you to play with.

DionV

DionV 2009-02-18 18:06:27 UTC #3

Hi Christian,

Can do. It is (hopefully) attached to this post.

As for “weird” addons, I don’t think it is. But I run my own server. Not sure how this would go over in a shared hosting scenario. If someone can control the includes path, I think it’ll be ok.

I’ve commented a few of the necessary things in the file, like server and account settings. Just remove “hacked.” from the beginning of the filename and replace the current winpopup class file with this one, adjust the settings, and it should work. [crosses fingers]

Again, I am not a programmer, so this is hacking in the original sense of the word. I just wanted to see if I could make it work. Pretty comes later.

DionV
hacked.class.notifications_winpopup.inc.php (4.52 KB)