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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 08/15/06 11:44
bizt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been asked by my manager to look into the possiblily of setting
> up an online chat system for the external website. We run an Apache
> server with PHP (hence the reason Im posting here) so it would need to
> run on that.
>
> Basically, it will run on the website and its purpose will allow
> members of the public to access the chat room and discuss current
> topics with experts. Similar to a doctors interactive website where
> patients can speak and get advice from their GP.
>
> Anyway, Ive never set up anything like this before so dont really know
> where to begin. The chat system may be something that we would need to
> pay for but ideally it will have a professioanl appearance and be easy
> to implement (please).
>
> Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks
>
> Burnsy
>
Burnsy,
Google is your friend.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=chat+programs
You won't find a good PHP solution; HTML, being stateless, doesn't lend
itself well to things like chat. There are workarounds (i.e.
auto-refresh the page every few seconds) - but not good ones.
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