In this era of social media we all look forward to easy and utility tools to easily market our site and blogs. In this post I will demonstrate a ready to use script, which will help you broadcast your message to everyone on your gtalk friend list in one go.

jaxl4broadcast.class.php
jaxl4broadcast.class.php is an extension of JAXL library. This extension simply saves all your buddy list in an array while connecting with Gtalk servers, and then send out your custom message to all of them in one go. The code that will do the task:

    function setStatus() {
      $this->sendStatus($this->status);
      print "Setting Status...\n";
      print "Done\n";

      foreach($this->rosterList as $buddy) {
        print "Sending message to ".$buddy."\n";
        $this->sendMessage($buddy,"Message broadcasted using *JAXL Library http://code.google.com/p/jaxl*");
        sleep(1);
      }

      /* Now loggout of the system */
      exit;
    }

PS: You need to checkout the latest version of xmpp.class.php for jaxl4broadcast.class.php to work. jaxl-1.0.4 doesn’t include the latest checked in xmpp.class.php

Using jaxl4broadcast.class.php

• Checkout the latest version of JAXL library from here
• Open config.ini.php, replace myproductionuser => gmail id and password => gmail password
• Open index.php, replace jaxl.class.php => jaxl4broadcast.class.php
• Open command line window (for windows) and shell prompt (for *nix). Navigate to the checked out directory
• From command prompt run php index.php
• If everything goes alright, you will see something like the image below
• See list of known issues if you are new to JAXL and having trouble

Other JAXL Extensions you may want to checkout:

• dzone@gtalkbots.com (Source Code)
• Sending custom out-of-office mails in Gmail (Source Code)

Happy Broadcasting!