How to implement a chat room using Jquery/PHP?

Question

I\'m looking to implement a chat room using PHP/Javascript (Jquery) with both group chat and private chat features.

The problem is how to continually update the inte

Answer 1

I suggest to implement it with HTML5 WebSockets, with long polling or comet as a fallback for older browsers. WebSockets open a persistent connection to the browser. There is an open source php implementation of a websocket server.