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Once you've called the bot, and its connected, what keeps it active? Ie, why does it remain on the channel, and keep the connection open?

I would have thought that the connection would timeout after some period of time if the calling program didnt continue to communicate with it.

Havents looked at the complete script, however i am kinda a oldtimer on the networks of irc.

Regarding youre question on what keeps it alive. ( a ping )

when the nick / b0t gets ping timedout it will be kicked of the network of just simply disconnect itself.

However i do suggest you use a BNC for running b0ts. I do not know youre connection or the network youre on, however if you do have a pretty nice channel lets say over 400 p33ps youre b0t is bound to be attacked.

I've seen also some webbased IRC scripts written in php (script puts data in db, and javascripts makes sure the page gets reloaded every 10 Seconds) and they generate a smurf

Btw, screen and irssi are my alltime favorites

yo - ive made my own one but this one is more complex and has given me alot of ideas

The while (!feof($this->fp)){ ... } loop in the receive method keeps the script constantly looping. The
if($this->data[ping] == 'PING'){
$this->send("PONG");
}
in the parse_data method keeps the connection alive by responding to PING with a PONG, that stops the irc server 'dropping' the client.

this is a very interesting read.........

everything you ever wanted to know about irc