Re: Chat

On 09/11/2010 18:32, Steve Staples wrote:

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.

I use an Openfire server with the Smack client. Its really simple, well documented and works really well. Kind regards Warren