PHP Jabber library (class.jabber2.php)

This new Jabber library for PHP has been created for the Flyspray project because of the lack of any usable Jabber library. So far it is the only one which supports SASL authentication which is required by most modern Jabber servers.

The Jabber library is located in our SVN repository, but you can always download the latest revision without any SVN client. A "changelog" and nicer view is available as well.

It's rather simple to use, so we'll give an example which should pretty much tell it all.

require('class.jabber2.php');
 
// this is the most simple way of initlialising a new instance of the Jabber class
$jabber = new Jabber('username@server.org', 'password');
 
// or this one, has it all
// SECURITY_NONE = neither SSL nor TLS is used
//   or SECURITY_SSL = use SSL
//      SECURITY_TLS = use TLS [last two require the openssl extension for PHP]
// 5222 = port number
// 'localhost' = add this parameter, if server.org is not the host
//               you want to connect to (but to localhost instead in this case)
$jabber = new Jabber('username@server.org', 'password', SECURITY_NONE, 5222, 'localhost');
 
// register the account with the data above
$jabber->register();
// or login with data from above (or both, one after the other)
$jabber->login();
 
// set presence
$jabber->presence();
// full version: $jabber->presence($type [dnd, away, chat, xa], $message [string], $unavailable [bool])
 
// check for incoming messages, do that after setting the presence only
print_r($jabber->get_messages());
 
// send a message
$jabber->send_message('mybuddy@server.org', 'message body', 'subject');
 
// if you don't like your account anymore...
$jabber->unregister();
 
 
$jabber->disconnect();
 
// this will give you a debug log
print_r(array_map('htmlspecialchars', $jabber->log));

This all the Jabber library can do so far, but I guess it covers all the most important actions.