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Posted by amygdala on 08/15/06 12:17
"bizt" <bissatch@yahoo.co.uk> schreef in bericht
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> 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
>
If you have any experience with client side Java and / or Flash applications
you might wanna look into the use of PHP socket connections; in other words
let PHP run a socket server.
I've run some small tests on my home box with flash, seems to work alright.
But I have no idea what payload a PHP socket script is able to cope with. I
didn't get into it very deep.
Google around for PHP sockets, there are a few good examples.
Here's a starter:
http://www.zend.com/pecl/tutorials/sockets.php?article=sockets&kind=pecltut&id=3796&open=1&anc=0&view=1#Heading3
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