For those of you who are wondering about the more intricate details, here is a little more information about this project....
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Originally posted by markee to Mattike
basically what the script side does is do roughly what the bot did, it sends the username, psm, status and that stuff to a data base. then with NF's PHP we will display a signature and their avatar (if they want) and then messages can be sent back to the person through a form and this will be regularly checked with the script on the person's computer. it isn't as thorough as what W2M was with being able to update instantaneously and you can't update your signature and such without the plus script, but their is also justified reasoning behind not being able to do that too (you dont really want to check your new messages when a friend is with you or on your mobile) and if you do then we will have a page set up for that so you can check your messages wherever you have an internet connection. This method should be less resource hungry on the server too. Sometimes we just need to make a bit of a sacrifice for this to be a long running and feasible endeavor.
oh and just for you guys, i can code html and css alright
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