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By sarasioux on
Meebo has recently released a new API, and we are interested in developing a Drupal module for it to enable our account managers to create customized chat rooms through the Drupal administration interface that integrate with our existing Drupal userbases.
With this API, you can do the following:
* Create, configure, and customize the appearance of rooms:
* Create a new room
* Configure an existing room
* List the rooms you own
* Check whether you own a particular room
* Check the configuration of a room
* Get the HTML code for embedding a particular room
* Delete a room
* Interact with rooms
* Find out how many participants are in a room
When integrating with users, the following fields can be defined:
* nickname - Display the username that you provide for the user during the chat room conversation and in the buddylist of the chatroom.
* iconurl (Optional) - Provide an absolute web link to the image that will be displayed next to the user's name in the buddylist of the chat room and in the expanded user profile window when the mouse is scrolled over the user's name in the buddylist.
* profile_url (Optional) - Provide an absolute web url link to another page on your site(s). Ex: The user's personal profile page. This link will be accessible to other chat room users via a button displayed on the expanded user's profile window.
* profile_url_text - (Optional) Provide a text label for the link that will take a chat room user to the web url link you provided in the profile_url field when the button is clicked on. This button is displayed on the expanded user's profile window when the mouse is scrolled over the user's name in the buddylist.
* profile_message
Specifications for how this module will work are still sketchy, but at the very least we would like to see the following:
* Ability to create & customize a new chat room through the Drupal backend
* Ideally it would be great if a new room defaults to a theme similar to the existing Drupal theme!
* Custom blocks to include in the site giving summaries of the chat rooms: i.e. chat room description, how many users are currently chatting, and it would be awesome to show a list of which users are chatting with links to their Drupal-system profiles.
We are also open to other ideas for how to maximize this API within the Drupal world.
We are currently seeking developers who are interested in this project so we can contract out development. We are looking for immediate implementation of this module through all of our existing artist sites, which is currently 40+ different sites.
Additionally, there is some documentation for creating a Facebook application for an existing Meebo room. I would love love love if this module could also be extended to automatically generate the required code/instructions for rolling your Drupal-created Meebo room into Facebook with a couple of clicks.
I am currently in discussions with the Meebo team and we are excited about moving forward with this. Please email me if you are interested in doing some contract development for this project.
Sincerely,
Sara Sioux
Warner Bros Records
sara@warnerbrosrecords.com
