Phergie

phergie-irc-parser 1.1.0 released

Matthew Turland — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 02:47:34 +0000

phergie-irc-parser 1.1.0 is now available on Github and Packagist. Many thanks to our first contributor Henri Watson for his participation in this release.

Changes:

The ACTION CTCP command is now supported (henriwatson).
Nick parameters containing underscores are now parsed correctly per RFC 2818 Section 2.3.1 (henriwatson).
Parameter parsing will fall back to being more relaxed in cases where the trailing parameter is not prefixed with a colon (elazar).
Response parameters are now parsed (elazar).

phergie-irc-generator 1.0.0 released

Matthew Turland — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:36:50 +0000

Following our last post regarding the new phergie-irc-parser project, we’re happy to announce that the second Phergie sub-project, phergie-irc-generator, is now available. This sub-project provides a fairly fast and easy-to-use PHP-based library for programmatically generating messages conforming to the IRC protocol. You can find the source code for it on GitHub and it is available on Packagist as well.

Pardon Our Dust

Matthew Turland — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:19:33 +0000

This project has sadly not received as much attention over the last year as in past years. We were hoping to get into a more regular release cycle, but it’s been more than a year since the last release. We are, however, hoping to get 2.2.0 out within the year.

A few maintenance releases may follow 2.2.0, but not long after that the 2.x branch of Phergie will reach EOL. Following the 2.2.0 release, efforts will be focused on Phergie 3, which will entail a number of changes we’re very excited about.

We will be splitting the project into multiple sub-projects, following suit with projects like PHPUnit and Zend Framework. Sub-projects will have their own repositories under the umbrella of the Phergie GitHub organization.
We will move to requiring PHP 5.3 or higher for most or all sub-projects. All new code will use PHP namespaces.
We will make sub-projects reusable by other projects. To that end, we will be supporting use of Composer and publishing sub-projects on Packagist.
We will integrate existing projects where possible. In particular, we’re looking at using React for the daemon portion of Phergie 3.
We will maintain continuous integration using Travis CI.
We will implement a low-friction process for contributing to documentation likely using either GitHub’s pages or wiki features.

We’re happy to announce the first Phergie sub-project, phergie-irc-parser. This sub-project provides a fairly fast and easy-to-use PHP-based parser for streams of data conforming to the IRC protocol. You can find the source code for it on GitHub and it is on Packagist as well.

We hope to have more announcements soon. Stay tuned!

PHPWM Presentation on Phergie

Matthew Turland — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:15:31 +0000

Alex Mace gave a presentation at a recent PHPWM user group meeting on Phergie and the XMPP driver he’s been developing for her. It’s a great quick high-level overview of Phergie’s history and architecture and Alex’s experiences in implementing the XMPP driver. Go check it out!

Phergie 2.1.0 Released

Matthew Turland — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:01:40 +0000

After over 11 months — trust us, we don’t want to go that long without a release ever again — Phergie 2.1.0 is now available. You can read about the many bug fixes and new additions in this release on the Changelog page. This release sports several new plugins, a number of new plugin features and updates, numerous bug fixes, and a few unit test and coding standard compliance improvements. As always, our thanks go out to all of our users and contributors for their help in making the Phergie project a continued success!

GitHub Repo Relocation

Matthew Turland — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 05:16:07 +0000

Until now, the main GitHub repository for the Phergie project had been kept under a single user account at http://github.com/elazar/phergie. It has been transferred to an organization on GitHub. The new repo address is http://github.com/phergie/phergie.

There are a few reasons for this transfer:

A new core team will be given merge rights to streamline acceptance of contributions where it was previously limited by the availability of a single developer.
Eventually, plugins and other sub-projects can be split off into their own repositories within the same organization to be developed independently from the main project and to allow more fine-grained grants of merge rights.

Any pull requests and issues should be directed to the transferred repository. Any existing clones of the original repository will need to have their upstream remotes updated to point to the new location. This can be done using the following command:

git remote set-url upstream git://github.com/phergie/phergie.git

Any questions about this change can be directed to the #phergie IRC channel on Freenode or in a comment on this post.

Using Phergie with Upstart

Matthew Turland — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:46:18 +0000

Anthony Wlodarski has posted an example of an Upstart script he wrote to easily start, stop, and restart Phergie. The script source is open and freely available. Thanks to Anthony for taking the time to write up, publish, and tell us about his blog post on this neat method of controlling Phergie.

Yii Framework Using Phergie

Matthew Turland — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:18:21 +0000

The increasingly popular Yii Framework project recently implemented a Phergie bot, which they’ve named YiiBot, in their #yii IRC channel on the Freenode network. One of their developers, tydeas, has made a few appearances in the #phergie channel to ask questions and discuss Phergie. He has produced several custom Phergie plugins for use in YiiBot. We’re very excited at this development and hope that the Yii project continues to use and extend Phergie, and perhaps even contribute some of their plugins back to the project!

New Unit Testing Docs

Matthew Turland — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:15:54 +0000

The Developers page now includes a section on unit testing Phergie plugins. Efforts to improve code coverage of the Phergie codebase continue, so if you’d like to help out, find a plugin lacking a unit test suite and write one. If you’re developing your own plugins to contribute back to the project, try to include unit test suites for them when you submit them. Our continued thanks go out to all of our contributors.

Phergie 2.0.4 Released

Matthew Turland — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:57:49 +0000

Phergie 2.0.4 is now available. You can read about the many bug fixes and new additions in this release on the Changelog page. This release sports significant improvements in stability and unit test code coverage. As always, our thanks go out to all of our users and contributors for their help in making the Phergie project a continued success!