CriBaby Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Has anyone here used any form of chat room software that is easy to use, free, and can hold more than 10 people? Or does anyone know a good way to program a chatroom using PHP? I'm not really good with AJAX and I don't know a way to force the window to refresh when someone sends a message. I'd prefer for the software to be able to support IRC and GUI connections, but GUI only would be fine. IRC only will not work as most people don't know how/won't use mIRC or any similar programs any longer. On another note: Does anyone here run an IRC chat? I'm a pretty fair IRC bot developer and I'd like to get back into it if I can't figure out a good way to get a chat room on my own site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazybmanp Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 there is one in the "site software pannel" its called phpchat, it gets the job done pretty well. (you can view mine at http://gamer-hotspot.heliohost.org/gamerchat/ so you can see if you like it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriBaby Posted July 31, 2008 Author Share Posted July 31, 2008 I'm not sure that one is going to do what I'm looking for. I'll try and use it if I can't find anything else, though. Thanks crazy. Are there any others that might be useful? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 There's a really easy Javascript called command window.reload() or something, I suggest you set it to reload every few seconds, instead of every message... Go look it up on w3schools, they have a spiffy AJAX tutorial too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriBaby Posted August 2, 2008 Author Share Posted August 2, 2008 The type of stuff I generally do in chat rooms requires that I have it update per message (even if it's just the chat window). As far as ajax goes, I was looking at the w3schools and while I can understand the concept, the individual code baffles me. I need it broken down more so I understand what each tag does. Otherwise, I don't know what to modify. :S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lappy512 Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 You can try using a Meebo chatroom. http://www.meebo.com/rooms/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AverageJoe Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 I frequent many channels on IRC and my dev team uses it as a means of communication. You could get a free irc client for windows at http://www.silverex.org/ and get your friends to get one too. Otherwise I would use meebo as lappy said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriBaby Posted August 6, 2008 Author Share Posted August 6, 2008 Meebo isn't going to give me quite as much control as I want. I use mIRC for my IRC needs but, as I said, IRC only won't work because people who aren't computer savvy won't waste their time downloading a chat program to talk to a few people they could talk to using other means. Anyway, thank you all for your input. Maybe I'll just try to get a shoutbox working with phpbb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trippin Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 You can use mibbit and irc. Mibbit connects to an irc chatroom via your web browser, no java or flash needed. It's pretty awesome. Check it out here, http://www.mibbit.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriBaby Posted August 6, 2008 Author Share Posted August 6, 2008 That site is blocked where I work. I'll check it out at home, but if you're still on I'd really like a short synapsis of what it's all about. From what you've said so far it sounds exactly like what I'm looking for. How does it work without java or flash? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 That site is blocked where I work. I'll check it out at home, but if you're still on I'd really like a short synapsis of what it's all about. From what you've said so far it sounds exactly like what I'm looking for. How does it work without java or flash? Magic. Seriously though, I'm guessing Mibbit works on some AJAX or something. Definitely some PHP in there. There was a time before Flash and Java ya know? Content can be revised in real time in more ways than I can count. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trippin Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 That site is blocked where I work. I'll check it out at home, but if you're still on I'd really like a short synapsis of what it's all about. From what you've said so far it sounds exactly like what I'm looking for. How does it work without java or flash? I also don't know the ins and outs of it but I'm also assuming php and or ajax, same way meebo works. There really isn't much to explain it connects to IRC and lets you have conversations just like an IRC client that you would download onto your computer. So if you have an IRC server or a registered channel on an already existing server this probably would be what you need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegreenteam Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 I would search google they have good html ones that I think you can put in php code. Go look up a guide to convert php to html. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivar T Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 I really enjoyed the Mibbit IRC client, I've added it to my site. I've seen that alot of people can't figure out the Java client, hope that isn't the case with Mibbit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HellHound Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 You can try PhpFreeChat See the demo at here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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