PHP Chat room going in, need some advice.

PHP chat rooms ALWAYS hurt the servers reasources, as they work via constantly refreshing.

I reccomend an IRC channel, with a vB intergrated java client, works wonders!

If you need an IRC server with no legal limits, I can bring mine back up at irc.kawanda.net by just emailing my server admin!

 

Then host it somewhere else, like I gave the example of my server

 

I'd go with the free software initially. If its a steaming turd, then you've lost nothing and can replace with a non-free solution, and if its good then you've saved some cash!

 

Let me explain.

Use an external IRC server, maybe even one of the big ones, like DALNet (or my smaller one, where you could have complete control, plus a more powerful IRC system) with a java client, which is a simple java application that will put no strain on the server apart from the 300 or so KB the first time a user visits. A java application is NOT an irc server, just a client.

 

Do you want to integrate it within the forums or thru some other part of the website? If the free one constantly refreshes and eats up server resources, then that eats up bandwith and drives up server cost, but if BLAB has minimal system load and doesn't take up a lot of resources, then that might be the better option. However, look into IRC, like HXC was saying.

 

Any PHP client will have to refersh, unless they used some incrediably advanced form of AJAX, which is unlikely...

A java IRC client on the other hand is downloaded once, and then it can be used again and again and again, with no refershing.

 

Indeed it is through client side. If you like I will tell my server admin to restart the IRCd with you as a global operator as well as me and you can set up the channel.

Or would you rather use one of the larger servers such as DALNet or something.

 

Arrrg, We could use that..but I would personally prefer to find a server that uses UnrealIRCd, its much more powerful and helpful to the users, plus it supports +qaohv instead of just +ohv

Aha! I found one: http://deltaanime.net/ has a free server that supports qaohv, I would use that if I were you

 

you know you're playing with fire, right?

 

deltaanime is the best server I have found, with full UnrealIRCd support, we should use that, not DALNet or EFnet. Also my server is back up now, also supporting UnrealIRCd

 

I'm completely clueless about the whole new chat room for here, but what's wrong with the current IRC chat room?

 

Hoollld on, we already have an IRC room? why have I never seen anything about it! I love chatting

 

Has IRC stablized itself yet? When I was op'ing on #mtg a few years ago, we would get a couple of net splits every hour.