Is there a PHP, CGI or even Flash chatroom that we're allowed to run? After our discussion yesterday I set out to find one, and did find a couple possible options written in PHP, CGI and even Flash for IRC servers. I'm just wondering if these will allowed? Trying to find a chatroom for the site within the allowed rules/guidelines, but without using another sites services our users have to sign up for etc. Thanks.
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Any PHP/Perl chat script will easily cause load problems on the server as they all essentially work the same and will automatically refresh the page every couple of seconds per chat user. This very quickly gets out of hand.
As you noted in your ticket, IRC would be a good choice. You may be able to find something to handle this on your own website, perhaps a Java applet or something like that. It is important to note that we do not allow IRC activity on our servers so the actual IRC connection cannot take place on/from our servers at all. I'm afraid I don't have any other specific recommendations for you. -
I'm aware we can't run an IRC server, not a problem. I'm actually an IRCop for an IRC server, the chatroom will be hosted on that server. Java applets are OK but some people have problems loading them, and I've been asked for an alternative. This is how the whole PCPin Chat thing came up before. I've seen PHP, CGI and Flash based clients for IRC, but I'm unsure on the server draw issues for them. I've never used them before, and don't want to spend the time setting them up, to find out they're not allowed. Thought maybe someone here might know.Comment
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I understand that the IRC server would not be hosted by us. What I was trying to explain is that you cannot run, for example, a PHP IRC script which will connect to the IRC server for chatting as this will connect from our server to the IRC server instead of from the actual visitor to the IRC server. Our server cannot be involved in the IRC connection in any way.Comment
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