request current_subscribers

[The Hamburgler]

Hi, just started using meteor, very impressed so far. I'll find out
this weekend if it really "scales" :)

I'm looking for meteor to update an admin page with the current
subscriber count of a given channel.

Reading the docs i see you can obtain this information from the server
with the Event controllers command protocol.

What would be the best way to get a live count. Is it possible to
setup a meteor stream to do this? If not could I access the command
protocol from within php using fsockopen and parse the returned
string?

Any help much appreciated. This feature is not essential for the first
run but I think it would be good for the client to monitor meteor
traffic.

- Jim