SmartIRC is a PHP class for communication with IRC networks that conforms to the RFC 2812 (IRC Protocol). It's an API that handles all IRC protocol messages. It is designed for
creating IRC bots, chatrooms, and showing IRC related info on Web pages. Changes in the new 0.5.5 version: Several important bugs were fixed, like unregistered timehandlers that
are tried to be called. Most bugfixes were in the channel sync code. Minor features like checking for isOpped(), isVoiced() and isBanned() were added. Tracking of the channel
key is now supported, and the reconnect() function takes advantage of it. Compatibilty with PHP 5.0.0b1 was tested. If your PHP installation has PEAR included, and you have
already a PEAR version of SmartIRC then run: pear upgrade Net_SmartIRC Otherwise for a new install: pear install Net_SmartIRC Or grab the SmartIRC package from the sf.net
project page