Online Web Chat Software? 30
frooyo asks: "I have been looking for sometime now to add the functionality of web chat to my website. I have been having difficulty in finding free (open source) software that allows for a moderator and N number of registered users to chat on my website. These
projects look
promising, but we'd like to know what others are out there. What do you use on your website for web chatting?"
How do I put chat rooms on my web pages? (Score:5, Funny)
Welcome to 1996!
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Re:How do I put chat rooms on my web pages? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:How do I put chat rooms on my web pages? (Score:2)
Frames
Animated GIFs
full-color jpgs as backgrounds so that seeing the text is impossible
What's a web page? Is that one of those "cyber" do-hickeys?
Re:How do I put chat rooms on my web pages? (Score:1)
It all depends. (Score:3, Informative)
It's more of a chat system, than simply a chat room.
Code http://sourceforge.net/projects/ethereal-realms/ [sourceforge.net]
Website: http://ethereal-realms.org [ethereal-realms.org]
And yes, it's released under the GPL
IRC (Score:3, Interesting)
Works like a charm.
Re:IRC (Score:2, Interesting)
Clients/daemons are only a sourceforge/freshmeat search away...
If... (Score:3, Informative)
Voice Software (Score:1)
Xoom
Re:Voice Software (Score:1)
CGIIRC (Score:4, Informative)
Re:CGIIRC (Score:2)
It supports user accounts and passwords so authentication shouldn't be a problem, and your more sohpisticated users have a nearly endless choice of other IRC clients to use to connect to your server.
You woul
Re:CGIIRC (Score:1)
chat systems (Score:4, Informative)
Try Voodoo Chat (Score:3, Interesting)
MCH
PHPMyChat (Score:3, Informative)
PHpMyChat [phpheaven.net] comes with CPanel [cpanel.net] which is an extremely popular web hosting management package, so you might have it available and not even know it. PHPMyChat is also freely available and totally customizeable. After editing the css files I was able to make the window very small and nearly borderless so it is very lowkey for my wife whose boss treats all the employees like children.
You can create users and private rooms and and all kinds of other stuff. Just type /help for a popup window with commands and instructions.
HTTP is just not a good chat protocol. (Score:4, Insightful)
I would recommend instead that you go with the Jabber protocol, which is a much better choice for chatting. Nice, friendly, free clients are available for all popular operating systems. If you really want it to look webbish, you can always use a java web app that speaks jabber. This should give you a much nicer user experience.
Re:HTTP is just not a good chat protocol. (Score:3, Informative)
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That's just in a theory. In practice, a lot of browsers (IE>2, NN, Mozilla, Opera>6, Konqueror, even links) support 'stream'-mode (actually, it's just a html-rendering during downloading). So user connects to the server and than retrieves new content (f.e. new chat-messages) without any refreshes. Server just doesn't close a connection but writes new c
Re:HTTP is just not a good chat protocol. (Score:2)
http://keeptalking.com
Web Chat Software
Use Javascript Remote Scripting (no reloading!) (Score:2)
You should check out Brent Ashley's work with Javascript Remote Scripting [ashleyit.com] (ie: "getting information from the server without refreshing the page")
There use to be a real-time chat on his website. And it's all updated without refreshing
webchat sucks (Score:2)
I wrote a crappy one.... (Score:3, Interesting)
Slashcode? (Score:4, Funny)
Just bought a web chat piece of software... (Score:1)
Here's the link: http://www.tufat.com/chat.php [tufat.com]
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Wrote my own: (Score:2)
So, I wrote one in Java. And I've kept updating it, it's pretty nice, fully skinnable Applet (to fit in with look and feel of website), uses the Non-Blocking java.nio classes (i.e., no more need for 1 thread per connection, so it scales VERY well, at least 10000 concurrent connections is what I've tested up to), has an SSL web server built in for the admininstration inte
Atutor chat (Score:1)