Interaction with the real world

Hello,
for our project we need to be able to receive IMs in real world and as well get text from outside (SQL, website,...) into IM/chat. At this moment we do it a bit weirdly over emails but if anybody have experience with how to do it more nice, idea is welcome!

So process would be like this:

text from IM-> goes into SQL or on webserver
Script which reads content of some website or value of SQL entry and sends it to local chat.

With best regards RockMonk (using Val's account)

If you already have the data in your SQL server, then all you need for the final step is:
llHTTPRequest

This will allow you to query a web page from within SL. The event http_response() is triggered when the web server responds. You can use that to very easily poll a PHP/ASB/Coldfusion/Perl/whatever script, which can in turn pull data out of your SQL server and then write it to the HTML page.

looks like a good way to start, thank You