Chat Rooms

[The Little Guy]

do you need a CGI to run a chat room if not how would you make a chat room?

[PeOfEo]

ASP PHP CGI ASP.NET JSP etc. Those are some server side languages. You are going to need one of those to make a chat room. The basic prinicpal behind making one is you have a form and the form updates a data base and then on the top part you have a page displaying data from the data base that refreshes using a meta refresh tag, or you use an applet to display the data so that the data will be displayed immediatly or atleast pretty quickly.

[AdamGundry]

The best solution (IMHO) is a Java applet or similar, since that continuously sends/recieves data without lots of page refreshes, so it is faster and reduces the load on the server. But you can use any server-side language as PeOfEo described.

Alternatively, you can get some remotely hosted chat providers that will do the work for you, but usually have their adverts on your chatroom. A quick Google search threw up this one: http://www.quickchat.org/

Adam

[jrbp]

Theres a lot at these places:

http://cgi-resources.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Chat/
http://cgi-resources.com/Programs_and_Scripts/C_and_C++/Chat/
http://cgi-resources.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Visual_Basic/Chat/

This one is PHP:
http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/Chat/

Or Remotely hosted:
http://cgi-resources.com/Remotely_Hosted/Chat/

Hope those help. :)

[keeganmiller]

Chatalyst is the best chat solution there is. It does not require an applet yet maintains a constant server connection via a Flash movie. It has many advanced features. Try it out at http://chatalyst.us or visit http://chatalyst.info/sp.php to download the program.

Keegan

[PeOfEo]

thats not a web chat though, you need a client :rolleyes: .