phergie, an irc (and xmpp) bot

PhergieA PHP IRC (and XMPP) Bot

Short History

Originally written by Matthew Turland (Elazar) as a replacement for the Ai bot in the #phpc IRC channel, written in PHP so users could contribute.

Completely re-written version 2.0 released in January 2010.

52 forks, 104 watchers on GitHub.

Plugins or: she doesn't look like much

All of Phergie's functionality is provided by plugins.

The bot itself just receives messages and passes them on to plugins for handling.

Examples include: Google, Twitter, Remind, Karma, Beer, Redmine, Url

Writing Plugins

Really easy

Extend the Command plugin for doing commands, or the abstract class for more general functionality.

Helper plugins for doing Http requests, etc.

The XMPP Driver

Phergie 2.0 refactored the IRC connection handling as a driver.

Namesco had already installed an XMPP server.

Phergie's functionality looked useful.

So I wrote an XMPP driver.

Proved to be amazingly easy to implement.

New classes for the connection, the host mask and events.

Now running reliably on our internal chat server, working towards a public release.

xmpp branch on my fork: http://github.com/alexmace/phergie

Redmine Plugin

Posts details of tickets mentioned in chat.

Plan to extend to time tracking, issue assignment, sprint information.

Working towards integration into core release of Phergie.

Very easy to write similar plugin for your preferred issue tracking software.

Links

Phergie - phergie.org

GitHub - http://github.com/phergie

IRC - #phergie on Freenode

Elazar - twitter.com/elazar