questions from a total noob

[chefcs51]

ok so I am not new to forums or servers but I have never used jabber. I am currently webmaster for a not for profit organization (political) the board has voted to add a messenger system to the site and i was given this task.. I asked what messenger they were talking about and soem guy said that jabber could be added to the server and we could have a specific client to use. I have never used jabber at all so any info on where to start or what to do would be great!

Thanks in advance

Chefcs51

[Jehan]

What exactly does you organization want to do? When you write about a messenger system on your site, is it some web chat system included in the site (so that people who are on the website can speak together?) and using Jabber? Or do you want to give people a real Jabber adress with your organization's domain, hence run a full Jabber server? Or what else?

[chefcs51]

give people a full jabber addy we have a chat room but we want staff and baord members to be able to have a jabber addy. We currently have phpbb but are migrating to IPB I saw something in the phpbb acp about jabber it so I dont know if it already has some capabilities? and not sure if IPB would have any either.

[zeller]

You can set up ejabberd to do use your own authentication script (which can be customised to your liking and written in PHP - or basically any other language - so it will work fine with most any forum software), so everyone with a forum account can log in using any jabber client they like.

[chefcs51]

well I found this(pictured below) in the admin cp so that is kinds what started this all but I basiclaly wanted to use it just for staff and board members. for now

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k201/svcbadass/jabber.jpg

[zeller]

that is just for board notifications, so users can be notified via jabber if they have new PMs or other things like that.

[chefcs51]

ahh ok thanks for the update