Re: How does one build a big chat system?

> How does one build a big chat system? > Not in PHP :-). Really though, PHP is probably not the optimal language to do something like that in. I would think a Java Servlet or a C program or a Java applet (client) would be better for building something like that. PHP was not designed to keep a long script running and running, either was ASP, Perl or any scripting language. A Java program on the server or a Java applet in the browser would be better suited because it is used to running for the long periods of time that a chat program requires. Michael Jens Kisters wrote: > The approaches i've so far using PHP is letting a script run (almost) > infinitely and refresh the output every 500ms or so, but this will > require a httpd-Process to run for every chatter, consuming several MB > per User. > > Any other suggestions which will cause less server load? > > I don't think that refreshing the page on the clientside is a very clean > solution, it really looks quite ugly. > -- > Grüße aus dem schönen Kleve > Jens Kisters > > +++++++ neue Anschrift +++++++ > > rosomm et partner > Agentur für neue Medien GmbH > Dienstleistungszentrum am > Weißen Tor - Eingang B > Gocher Landstrasse 2 > 47551 Kleve / Bedburg-Hau > > Telefon: 02821 - 97856-20 > Telefax: 02821 - 97856-77 > j.kisters@rosomm-partner.de > www.rosomm-partner.de > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net