Re: Chat

On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 16:51 +0100, Dušan Novaković wrote: > Hello there, > > I have to make chat for website that has around 10 000 users (small > social network). So before I start, I would like to hear different > opinions. Important thing is to have in mind that in one moment you > can have over 1 000 users using chat. > So, if you have time fill free to write you experience in this field, > suggestions, etc. > > Thnx, > Dusan > > > > -- > > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > I did that for a site for my buddy... i tried a few different ways, and the current way seems to work decently... but i've been thinking about altering it... what i did for that one, is it inserts into a database what the person wrote, then on eth other side, it pulls every x seconds from the db, and using ajax adds to the <div>. it is a pain in the ass, but yeah, it works. I also had a flag for "typing" indicator. i am sure there are many different ways to do this, but posting to a db, and pulling from the db seemed to be the logical way to do it when i did that... my buddies old way of doing it, is at http://radiokaos.com it just posts to the db, and then refreshed the iframe every 20 seconds or something.