Create IRC client

[garethellis36]

• Connect/join channel
• Auth with nickserv
• Receive messages & chat events (join/part/quit)
• Send messages
• Handle nickname clash on reconnect/auto-switching nick to 'spires' (or whatever) when available

[martindilling]

Some useful information about the IRC protocol: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2812

[garethellis36]

Here's an existing PHP IRC bot, for reference: https://www.phergie.org/

[martindilling]

And another one I posted in irc a while back: https://github.com/tronsha/cerberus