Re: PHP Chat REALTIME

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Joffrey van Wageningen wrote: > socket to the server (read: the php script running). the only realy useful > language is javascript becouse flash and java are not portable on some > platforms. the next problem is javascript isnt able (for security reasons) > to open a socket to the outside. But it would be better to have just a server written in C/C++/whatever and then a Java applet to connect to the server from the browser, just as almost every chat around the www do (even an IRC server would do the job propperly secured). Disadvantages: the browser must support Java applets (not a big deal anyway, since with an "HTML" chat you'll most likely need frames). I see this solution simpler. Regards.