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 believe the problem you are looking at requires the use of comet web programming. You can find more details on wikipedia, by searching for Comet programming, and on Ajaxian (I'm still new to this site and I can't post more than 1 link in the response).

The problem is that this can't be easily achieved with php on the server side. More details: using comet with php

Also, if you search on google for 'php comet' you'll find a tutorial to achieve the desired effect.

LATER EDIT

Ape project

Implemented a project using this engine. Is great.

Comet with php

Hope this helps, Gabriel