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Introduction
One of the most popular uses for the Internet is person-to-person communication. There are many ways that we can communicate with each other online including ICQ, MSN Messenger, forums, Email, mIRC and Java chat applets. If you run a web site, then you should provide your visitors with some sort of communication tool that will allow them to express their opinions on a particular topic, as well as communicate with other people sharing the same interests as them.
In this article, I’m going to show you how to create a quick-n-easy chat script using PHP and a very simple MySQL database. The script will run in a web browser and the chats will be stored in a database. Our script will allow the visitor to choose a nickname, enter text to “send” to the chatting window, and view messages from other people… all in real-time! For a bit of fun, our chat application will also have buttons to send several emote-icons including smiling and frowning faces.
In this article, I am assuming that you know how to create a MySQL database from the command line. I will also assume that you have Apache, PHP and MySQL on the same server running under Windows 2000. If you’re running a Win9x/Unix box, don’t worry…everything is pretty much the same.
Firstly, let’s start by creating the database to store our chat sessions…
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| | | tvks swamy wrote : 394
Where is the download for source and images? | | | Boaz Yahav wrote : 395
You should click on "read more" to go to the full article | | | tvks swamy wrote : 396
I did click read more and navigated to all the pages. The
last sentence which the author had stated in the last page was
"Remember you can download the SQL script, source code and
images by clicking on the “supporting material” link below."
There is neither a link nor a button with the name
supporting material.
What do I do? | | | Boaz Yahav wrote : 397
You will need to ask devarticles.com cause this article is
hosted on their site. WeberDev is just linking to them. | |
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