AOL IM popup

[dkilburn]

I like how sitepoint profiles have a little AOL IM icon that when clicked opens a popup window with the IM remote bar. I'd like to add this to my class site so that students can contact me, but I don't want the big remote bar on the page. I'd rather have a little icon they can click on and have the bar popup. The code sitepoint uses for this is:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript">
<!--
function aimwindow(aimid) {
window.open("member.php?action=aimmessage&aim="+aimid,"_blank","toolbar=no,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,width=175,height=275,resizeable=yes,status=no")
// -->
}
</SCRIPT>

Being new to javascript, what do I need to change to make this reference something on my site?

Thanks!

[goober]

Okay. First of all, that is not the entire script. there is more serverside script based in the .PHP file. I could give you a way to do it through a link. But, i need more info. Are they going to be IMing you or someone else, or many people? Let me know please. I'd love to help.

[dkilburn]

It would be just IMing me. My screen name is FourHWeb. Thanks for the help!!

[dkilburn]

Goober...are you out there? Anyone else know how to solve this problem?

Thanks!

[goober]

Hello everyone,

I'm ALWAYS out there :o). I just haven't had time to do anything of the sort yet. I've looked at certain things, but it's going to take a LOT of reengineering, which i don't have the time for (at the present moment). I will talk to my friend Chris today to see how he does it. Okay? alright.

[dkilburn]

I'm sorry I was thinking it might be a simple thing that I just didn't know how to do yet. It's not a mission critical feature...something that would be nicer than the big box AOL provides for the web page. The semester just ended, so I have until mid-January to figure something out. For now, I've got the AOL thing on my page and it is working fine.

Thanks a million for your help!!!

[Hierophant]

If you want the AIM Remote on your HomePage, simply visit this page for full instructions on how to do it.

http://www.aol.com/aim/remote.html

The difference about the implementation in vBulletin is that it has to account for many different possible screennames. As such the actual code sent to the Remote is controlled by the javascript and a little PHP that retrieves the ID out of the database.

[dkilburn]

Originally posted by W. Luke
If you want the AIM Remote on your HomePage, simply visit this page for full instructions on how to do it.

I've got that on my page already. I like the look of a little icon better than a big box much better, so that is what I was trying to do.

[Justin S]

You just need to do this...

<a href="aim:goim?screenname=fourhweb&message=Hi.+I+have+a+question.">Click here to IM ME!</a>

It should be pretty easy for you to figure out how to customize it...

[dkilburn]

Bingo! That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Justin :-)