anyone can help me???S.O.S

[shrine]

anyone can help me to develop a web based chat room for my project??i got not enough to develop the system bcs i got not enough knowledge in PHP.the project have to pass up in two weeks time. really need help from u all can help me.

[alfoxy]

The simplest way to make a chat room is first make a page with two frames. One for submitting and one for reading.

First the submit one. In it make a form which posts to a .php script which appends the message to a text file.

Now the message one. Firstly make the message page a .php script that reads the .txt file and displays it. Then add html tags which make the page refresh every 3 or 4 seconds.

Simple as that. I suggest doing it in this order. All the individual things suce as writing to a text file are very easily done and have been explained here in the forum or on php.net

Al

[Anon]

also, keep in mind that you wouldn't want the text file to keep growing and growing until you're sending gargantuon textfiles to users. Tip:

use file() to make the .txt a PHP array, then reverse the order of the array. Use something like the following to cut to a decent number of lines:
for($i=0;$i<$lines;$i++)
{
$new_file_array[$i] = $old_file_array[$i];
}

Reverse again, and use another similar for-loop to write the updated .txt...