PHP Windows Live Messenger Web Tutorial

Last Revised On: 31/05/2009

This tutorial will guide you through the necessary steps to add Windows Live Messenger to your website. The Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit provides UI controls which add instant messaging capability to a web page. The toolkit UI controls demonstrated in this tutorial allow a user to login, initiate instant messaging conversations, view their contact list, change their status and of course, log out.  Part Two of this tutorial explains how to add a Live Messenger IM control to a web page which allows site users to see when you are online and initiate conversations with you, the site owner.

Architecture diagram for the Windows Live Messenger Web Application

The server contains application logic written in PHP and the client's browser renders the login, profile and web UI controls.  The HTML UI controls then interact with the Windows Live Messenger Service to display user information relevant to the currently signed in user.

Note that the web server environment can be Linux/Apache, Windows/Apache or Windows/IIS.

Tutorial

Part 1: How to Integrate Windows Live Messenger into a PHP site.

Part 2: How to Add a Windows Live Messenger Control to a PHP Page.

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