Re: PHP Web-Chat Software

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Galen, On Tuesday 13 Apr 2004 07:12, Galen wrote: > Hi PHP people, > > I'm looking for PHP-based chat software. This is more of casual thing, > otherwise I'd go out and write my own that works exactly the way I > want, but I just don't have the time. > > I've tried several packages, and every single one has very significant > browser problems. The problems go on and on and on... which chat > programs (don't forget to mention the version you're using) have > "robust" web-based chatting interfaces? I'd rather not try all of the > hundreds of packages out there on several different browsers to find > out! > > Also, this has gotta be PHP/MySQL only - no daemons please! The > requirements are simple, so I don't need loads of complex stuff, > simpler (interface-wise) is better here, but I most need something that > plain works! I don't know of any 'mainstream' chat apps, but I have one I wrote for a client (gpl licensed) that's ~800 lines and uses SQLite as a data-source (would be simple to change to MySQL). If you want it, let me know and I'll put it up somewhere. But this is simple: the client refreshes every variable number of seconds (say 1), uses basic html (font, bold, italics, etc) and a bit of browser detection magic for frames and font depths. Something you could probably write in an hour ;) Elfyn - -- Elfyn McBratney, EMCB mailto:elfyn@emcb.co.uk http://www.emcb.co.uk/ PGP Key ID: 0x456548B4 PGP Key Fingerprint: 29D5 91BB 8748 7CC9 650F 31FE 6888 0C2A 4565 48B4 "When I say something, I put my name next to it." -- Isaac Jaffee >> ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ << << ~ Linux london 2.6.5-emcb-241 #2 i686 GNU/Linux ~ >> >> ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ << -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAe6S7aIgMKkVlSLQRAnNPAJ9CNK2zc5vgATMIWZrabWHc6rMadACeLq21 /+BIPzpNTu3mIIpuBaAotLU= =a7bf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----