Great to hear you’ve been using Skype Status Flick!

I just updated to the latest version of Skype to check, and you are correct, v1.0 crashes/does not work. It appears that the Skype API was not included by default in this version.

I’ve updated SkypeStatusFlick to version 1.1, which fixes a few small bugs, and also includes the latest Skype4COM.dll (the Skype API). Download using the link above, extract the zip file, and double click on the register_skype4com.bat to re-install the Skype API. Then you should be ready to go as normal (check in your Skype window after running SkypeStatusFlick.exe for the yellow ‘requesting access’ popup just in case).

Please let me know if that fixes the problem!
- Christina

Many many thanks.

You are my heroine. It works perfectly.

Friendly kiss and greeting,

Muck.

Try this version – I have rewritten it to use the cURL library:
http://www.trystaltech.com.au/download/Skype+Secure+SSL+web+status+indicator+using+cURL+library

Let me know how it goes!
- Christina

Thank you for your attempt to help me.

Unfortunately, this is far too high for me and I know nothing of php and my english is also not really good.

I’d be very grateful if you could help me again and could give me and the other noobs a suitable solution.

cURL library is available on my webspace.

I thank you in advance again.

Friendly greetings,

Muck

The alternative to using fopen() in PHP is to use the cURL library. You can find instructions and examples of how to use it at http://au.php.net/curl

Hope this helps!
- Christina

I noticed that requires allow_url_fopen this solution.
Unfortunately, this is not safe for the Joomla CMS.

Is there a solution to the allow_url_fopen does not need?

On a solution I would be very happy.

Kind regards,

Muck

I am looking for a very long time for this solution.

It works just great !

Kind regards.

C.A.M

1. Download the file (skype_on_ssl.zip)
2. Extract the ZIP file
3. Open the ‘insert_code.txt’ in Notepad, and change the 2 occurences of ‘YOUR_USERNAME’ to your Skype username.
4. Save ‘insert_code.txt’
5. Upload the ‘skype’ folder to your webserver
6. Now copy all of the text from ‘insert_code.txt’ and overwrite your existing Skype web status button on your secure webpage
7. Done!

A quick note that I forgot to mention – you need to have your currently logged in Skype client set to ‘Allow my status to be shown from the web’ – you can set this in Options. Otherwise SkypeStatusFlick can’t help you, as Skype’s servers will return ‘Offline’ no matter what your status is.

I’d love if it people could post back their feedback – did it work for you? If not, what happened?