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Title : A simple php chat script that barely needs any bandwidth. Perfect for targeting low speed users.
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Shashank Prabhakara
Date : May 30th 2009
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Simply copy chat.php's contents where the chat page is required and customise.

<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 3.2//en">

<html>

<head>
<title>chat</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Arachnophilia 4.0">
<meta name="FORMATTER" content="Arachnophilia 4.0">

</head>

<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080" alink="#ff0000">
<?
$person
= str_replace ("\n"," ", $person);
$person = str_replace ("<", " ", $person);
$person = str_replace (">", " ", $person);
$person = stripslashes ($person);
?>
<form action="chat.php3" method="post">
Nickname: <input type="text" name="person" size="40" maxlength="80" value="<? echo $person; ?>"><br>
Your message: <textarea name="message" rows="3" cols="40"></textarea>
<input type="submit" value="Send/refresh">
</form>

<?
/*    the $chat_file_ok is a txt file (or whatever else) I use for                */
/*    messages storage                                        */

$chat_file_ok = "c:\\apache\\htdocs\\cart\\chat\\msg.txt";

/*    $chat_lenght is the number of messages displayed                */

$chat_lenght = 10;

/*    $max_file_size is the maximum file size the msg.txt file can reach        */
/*    assuming that any chatter doesn't write a message longer than        */
/*    $max_single_msg_lenght (this case: 100,000 bytes = 100Kb)        */

$max_single_msg_lenght = 100000;
$max_file_size = $chat_lenght * $max_single_msg_lenght;

/* check if file size is over maximum    (set with $max_file_size )            */

$file_size= filesize($chat_file);

/*    if file size is more than allowed then                            */
/*            reads last $chat_lenght messages (last lines of msg.txt file)    */
/*            and stores them in $lines array                        */
/*            then deletes the "old" msg.txt  file and create a new msg.txt    */
/*            pushing the "old" messages stored in $lines array into the    */
/*            "new" msg.txt file using $msg_old.                       */
/*        Note: this is done in order to avoid huge msg.txt file size.        */
           
if ($file_size > $max_file_size) {

/* reads file and stores each line $lines' array elements    */

$lines = file($chat_file_ok);
/*get number of lines                                */

$a = count($lines);

$u = $a - $chat_lenght;
for(
$i = $a; $i >= $u ;$i--){
       
$msg_old $lines[$i] . $msg_old;
    }
$deleted = unlink($chat_file_ok);
$fp = fopen($chat_file_ok, "a+");
$fw = fwrite($fp, $msg_old);
fclose($fp);
}

/* the following is because every message has to be        */
/* placed into one single line in the msg.txt file.            */
/* You can render \n (new lines) with "<br>" html tag anyway.    */

$msg = str_replace ("\n"," ", $message);

/*    if the user writes something...                    */
/*        the new message is appended to the msg.txt file    */
/*    REMEMBER: the message is appended, hence, if     */
/*        you want the last message to be displayed as the    */
/*         first one, you have to                     */

/*        1. store the lines (messages) into the array        */
/*        2. read the array in reverse order                */
/*        3. post the messages in the output file (the chat)    */
       
/* I added these three lines in order to avoid buggy html code and slashes    */
$msg = str_replace ("\n"," ", $message);
$msg = str_replace ("<", " ", $msg);
$msg = str_replace (">", " ", $msg);
$msg = stripslashes ($msg);




if (
$msg != ""){

$fp = fopen($chat_file_ok, "a+");
$fw = fwrite($fp, "\n<b>$person :</b> $msg<br>");
fclose($fp);
}

$lines = file($chat_file_ok);
$a = count($lines);

$u = $a - $chat_lenght;

/*    reads the array in reverse order and outputs to chat    */
for($i = $a; $i >= $u ;$i--){
        echo
$lines[$i] . "<hr>";
    }


?>
</body>
</html>





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