Send file to Browser without EOF (Chat)

Anon

Hi people!

I'm trying to program a Chat in PHP...

A problem is to send the file to the user, without an EOF (I think I have to do it like this) so i can put new lines in the file...

has anyone an idea? a site to read or something like this?

thanks,

elian

eduard

Is not gonna work, you need an applet or whatever in your browser... You can not send any information to a browser whenever you want.

Anon

It could work (sort of), but not in this manner (The execution-time of a script is limited and the connection could time out, and noone wants to wait for the last message to come in last).

You should write the script to display the last X messages, and refresh each X seconds. That would work. But it is quite inconvenient.

eduard

If you choose this, take the last couple of messages since there could be sent a number of messages between the refresh....

Anon

hi drm,

thanks for your idea, but i think this isn't a nice idea... i wnat a real chat, not a windows that refreshes...

elian

eduard

Then you'll need a client at each webbrowser which displays the text, and a server on you webbrowser which send each new sent line..

Anon

Hello..

I saw a Perl Script (Whisplash form Network Dweebs), that uses this. it just sends the browser every X seconds a Ping.

SO i think it should work, not?

elian