SuperGirl 0 #1 July 16, 2008 people help me so I have this website. and different users can log onto it. and do stuff. and I want a CHAT service incorporated, something like a little Jabber so the users can see who else is logged on and have some live chat. It doesn't need to be fancy but it needs to work well. Kinda like facebook has the new little chat feature... any recommendations on what to use? by the way the app I'm working on is mostly done in PHP, with some JS here and there... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Loonix 0 #2 July 16, 2008 Perhaps an AJAX shoutbox, if you're using JS already. Those doesn't require the page to be reloaded, the clientside JS will just poll the server every 5 seconds (or something) for updates. There's plenty of freeware ones if you google around a bit. You're not saying if you've coded the page yourself or not. Integrating one with your current code may need some hacking. Or just use a regular shoutbox including reloading of the page for updates. Simpler is better, 99% of the time, in my opinion ;) I wrote an ajax box for my page, but removed it again because of compatibility issues. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
