i need help by makin an msn / hotmail messenger using scripts of php of u have codes of it please send it to kb194buryfc@hotmail.com and please send it a zip file so it dosent take for ever to download it if you send me it i will send you some games and freebies. thank you , KBFLASH

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PHP isn't exactly designed for this kind of thing. An MSN client would require a constant connection to the server, and a PHP script is intended to be executed quickly, and then terminate and send all output to the client via the webserver. Although I guess it would theoretically be possible to create an MSN client in PHP (if you knew the protocol it uses, which I don't), it would probably be one of the worst languages you could do it in, and would be absolutely terrible running on a standard webserver. A better way, I think, would be to create a standalone program that acts as an MSN API and allows PHP to interface with it.

Oh, and I'm assuming you mean an MSN client that actually operates on the network allowing standard Messenger-like interaction with other users using the standard client, not just a simple chat script or something like MSN.

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Well, there's a particular site that runs MSN like that, and I believe they run it with php or something like that...

http://www.e-messenger.net

They provide rather good MSN messaging and rather stable, and many user used them for web based messaging and mobile messaging... Probably check out how they does that...

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I see. But how do you know that is using PHP to directly access Messenger? As I said, it could be done by developing a program in a more suitable language (eg. C/C++), and then allowing PHP to interface with that program - and I would guess that's what they've done here. PHP is designed primarily for webscripting, and is not a good language for maintaining persistant connections - as I also said, it's intended to simply do what needs to be done, then finish everything and deliver output to the user. Again, I don't know, they may have done it using only PHP - but I doubt it. Just because the pages you view are utilising PHP does not mean that is where the actual work is being done.

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