Chat Script

muska

Hi,

I have been playing around with the socket functions in PHP and I have a question.

If I want to make a chat program, how do I make the message that was sent from one person be spit out on the Web page without having to refresh the page?

How do I run a PHP script on a page and not have to refresh the page?

theeper

Short answer: you don't

PHP is a server side parsed language. There is no way to "push" data with PHP. Java or something else would be preferrable.

junky

you may be able to do a macromedia flash and php combo, but most likely this would be a little slow as a number of calls would be made to the server, I dont fully understand sockets yet so it might be doable.

with flash you can make it so it will update the content it self and make the calls as the user inputs.

FLASH is great!!!