Skype is one of the biggest free VoIP (voice over internet protocol) service and an instant messaging client, currently developed and managed by Microsoft. Today I am going to show you that how you can check any Skype user’s status that he/she is online or off line. Its a very simple code I found on a website and want to share this with my readers.

PHP Code [source]

<?php

function get_skype_status($username, $image = false, $icon = false ){
    if($image && $icon)
    {
        return "http://mystatus.skype.com/smallicon/".$username;
    }
    //if you need image
    else if($image)
    {
        return "http://mystatus.skype.com/".$username;
    }
    //or just text
    else
    {

        $url = "http://mystatus.skype.com/".$username.".xml";
        //getting contents
        $curl = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        $data = curl_exec($curl);
        curl_close($curl);

        $pattern = '/xml:lang="en">(.*)</';
        preg_match($pattern,$data, $match); 

        return $match[1];   
    }
}

?>

This function accept 3 parameter $username, image and icon. If you nee only text status the no need to send 2nd and 3rd parameter send only username and it will give you text message. all 3 methods called below.

Function Call

<?php
//getting skype status icon
$ico = get_skype_status("huzoorbakhsh", true, true);
echo "<p>Skype icon:</p>";
echo "<p><img src='".$ico."'/></p>";

//getting skype status image
$image = get_skype_status("huzoorbakhsh", true);
echo "<p>Skype image:</p>";
echo "<p><img src='".$image."'/></p>";

//getting skype status text
$status = get_skype_status("huzoorbakhsh");
echo "<p>Skype status:</p>";
echo "<p>".$status."</p>";
?>

These all methods show you icon, image and status text as we show in our demo page.

This is a very small script and easy to configure if you are looking for something like this then download its code for free and use it in your web projects.

I hope you like this please feel free to comment below your suggestion and problems if you face because we are here to solve your problems.