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Damn you and your php Xin, some nice perl irc bots about.
Easiest way would be a Php script that would read a file on the server / remote server.
And a perl bot which reads users and updates every x mins/secs.
That way you can make the php script use Ajax and seamlessly update. With a temp array of names only only if its been X time does it update that array.
Having the check would make sure that you can't crash the script/webserver with a dos attack if you were to have a phpbot, because every client would activate a new bot, thus having a huge load on the server.
(and hi, first post)