chat room

andy_jacko · #1 19-10-2005, 21:42

i have a hosting account with another provider (purely for testing scripts)

i need a chat room for a site and am thinking of putting it with the other provider(its against kda t&c's).

what free chat scripts are available, if tried a couple and they're pants.

the server is a standar linux server so php/sql/ perl etc.

cheers

andy

Karl · #2 23-10-2005, 17:52

The best chat room scripts tend to be written in Java and are constant running daemons - Which with most hosts is going to be an issue unfortunately. Chat rooms tend to be very resource intensive is they aren't running as a daemon as you've got many clients all making a request every couple of seconds to see if anyhting has updated. In theory the same is true with a daemonised process, but it can be much more efficient and can actually push the updates out to those that require them.

andy_jacko · #3 23-10-2005, 18:01

thought as much

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Ive had an offer for a hosted chat room, so i'll see and post back my finding for anyone else interested.

regards andy

IALPA · #4 26-10-2005, 12:26

I've found that with using IPB, I just bolted on a java applet that attached to a proper IRC server.

You can set the inital settings on the applet that force everyone into the same room, has worked well here for a number of months. Only downside is that some people don't have java installed in the beginnning.

It's also very stable, surprisingly.

david63 · #5 31-10-2005, 08:09

I know that I am comming in a bit late on this (been on holiday) but KDA do have a prinstalled chat script - never used it, do not know how good/bad it is. Just thought I would throw it in.