Program O on Sourcefourge

This week Elizabeth Perreau placed Program O under the GNU General Public License (same as Linux) on Sourceforge. Program O allows you to host a chatbot on your website using in PHP with MySQL. If you would like a demo or more information please visit http://www.program-o.com.

The Specifications for Program O:

• Database Environment : MySql
• Development Status : 4 - Beta
• License : GNU General Public License (GPL)
• Programming Language : PHP
• Topic : Intelligent Agents
• User Interface : Web Based

The AIML botmaster may consider Program O as an alternative to the now unsupported Program E, an earlier AIML interpreter in PHP.

Program O

Elizabeth Perreau, creator Shakespearebot, has written a new AIML interpreter. In keeping with the tradition of naming AIML interpreters with letters of the alphabet (Program B, Program C, Program D etc.) Elizabeth has chosen to name hers Program O (the letter O, pronounced "Oh"). Like the no longer actively supported Program E, Program O is based on PHP and MySQL. You can check out Program O at http://www.program-o.com.

Program E has some well known bugs, and without active support, it can be frustrating to try to make modifications to its source code. Elizabeth says, "I just got to the stage where if I wanted to get into AIML more I had to re-write alot of it for my needs." Program O is written to make it easy to add new AIML tags and extensions. Elizabeth has already implemented the custom Pandorabots tags <eval> and <learn> for client-based bot training.

Program O is set for release on March 1, 2009. Meanwhile you can help Elizabeth debug the code by visiting the site and chatting with her bot.