Chat Rooms

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do you need a CGI to run a chat room if not how would you make a chat room?<!--content-->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.<!--content-->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.<br />
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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: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.quickchat.org/">http://www.quickchat.org/</a><!-- m --><br />
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Adam<!--content-->Theres a lot at these places:<br />
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<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://cgi-resources.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Chat/">http://cgi-resources.com/Programs_and_S ... Perl/Chat/</a><!-- m --><br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://cgi-resources.com/Programs_and_Scripts/C_and_C++/Chat/">http://cgi-resources.com/Programs_and_S ... _C++/Chat/</a><!-- m --><br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://cgi-resources.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Visual_Basic/Chat/">http://cgi-resources.com/Programs_and_S ... asic/Chat/</a><!-- m --><br />
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This one is PHP:<br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/Chat/">http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/Chat/</a><!-- m --><br />
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Or Remotely hosted:<br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://cgi-resources.com/Remotely_Hosted/Chat/">http://cgi-resources.com/Remotely_Hosted/Chat/</a><!-- m --><br />
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Hope those help. <!--content-->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 <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://chatalyst.us">http://chatalyst.us</a><!-- m --> or visit <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://chatalyst.info/sp.php">http://chatalyst.info/sp.php</a><!-- m --> to Download <!--more--> the program.<br />
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Keegan<!--content-->thats not a web chat though, you need a client .<!--content-->