XMPP Examples

Echo Bot Client

include jaxl.php and initialize a new JAXL instance:

require 'jaxl.php';
$client = new JAXL(array(
    'jid' => 'user@domain.tld',
    'pass' => 'password'
));

We just initialized a new JAXL instance by passing our jabber client jid and pass.

View list of available options that can be passed to JAXL constructor.

Next we need to register callbacks on events of interest using JAXL::add_cb/2 method as shown below:

$client->add_cb('on_auth_success', function() {
    global $client;
    $client->set_status("available!");  // set your status
    $client->get_vcard();               // fetch your vcard
    $client->get_roster();              // fetch your roster list
});

$client->add_cb('on_chat_message', function($msg) {
    global $client;

    // echo back
    $msg->to = $msg->from;
    $msg->from = $client->full_jid->to_string();
    $client->send($msg);
});

$client->add_cb('on_disconnect', function() {
    _debug("got on_disconnect cb");
});

We just registered callbacks on on_auth_success, on_chat_message and on_disconnect events that will occur inside our configured JAXL instance lifecycle. We also passed a method that will be called (with parameters if any) when the event has been detected.

See list of available event callbacks that we can hook to inside JAXL instance lifecycle.

Received $msg parameter with on_chat_message event callback above, will be an instance of XMPPMsg which extends XMPPStanza class, that allows us easy to use access patterns to common XMPP stanza attributes like to, from, type, id to name a few.

We were also able to access our xmpp client full jabber id by calling $client->full_jid. This attribute of JAXL instance is available from on_auth_success event. full_jid attribute is an instance of XMPPJid.

To send our echo back $msg packet we called JAXL::send/1 which accepts a single parameter which MUST be an instance of JAXLXml. Since XMPPStanza is a wrapper upon JAXLXml we can very well pass our modified $msg object to the send method.

Read more about various XML Objects and how they make writing XMPP applications fun and easy. You can also add custom access patterns upon received XMPPStanza objects. Since all access patterns are evaluated upon first access and cached for later usage, adding hundreds of custom access patterns that retrieves information from 100th child of received XML packet will not be an issue.

We will finally start our xmpp client by calling:

$client->start();

See list of available options that can be passed to the JAXL::start/2 method. These options are particularly useful for debugging and monitoring.

Echo Bot BOSH Client

Everything goes same for a cli BOSH client. To run above echo bot client example as a bosh client simply pass additional parameters to JAXL constructor:

require 'jaxl.php';
$client = new JAXL(array(
    'jid' => 'user@domain.tld',
    'pass' => 'password',
    'bosh_url' => 'http://localhost:5280/http-bind'
));

You can even pass custom values for hold, wait and other attributes.

View list of available options that can be passed to JAXL constructor.

Echo Bot External Component

Again almost everything goes same for an external component except a few custom JAXL constructor parameter as shown below:

require_once 'jaxl.php';
$comp = new JAXL(array(
    // (required) component host and secret
    'jid' => $argv[1],
    'pass' => $argv[2],

    // (required) destination socket
    'host' => $argv[3],
    'port' => $argv[4]
));

We will also need to include XEP0114 which implements Jabber Component XMPP Extension.

// (required)
$comp->require_xep(array(
    '0114' // jabber component protocol
));

JAXL::require_xep/1 accepts an array of XEP numbers passed as strings.