My hunt for a ChatRoom.....

[MothBall]

....i've spent the last 2 days, trying out various chatrooms, and I have yet to come across one that I or my members would like.

So....I come here asking for help. Do you know of a good chatroom?

My Needs:

Free to download (to be installed onto the server)
No refreshing (if possible)
Easy to customise (colours etc)

All the ones I have come across and tried either are not free, refresh every so many seconds, or just outright look awful (bad design).

If I had the PHP knowledge, I would attempt to create one myself (as they all say ).

Any links, advice, would be appreciated, cause at the moment i'm not getting anywhere. I don't really want to use a chatroom in Java, but if you know of a good one that meets my needs, please post it anyway

Thanks

[Yusogga]

I wanted to build a chat room at the time.
The result of my search was :


1 - all Non refreshing chat engines were CGI-JAVA oriented, or were Flash Chat rooms

2 - all of the premade ones are pretty ugly.

3- If you want to build your own and add it to your server, you better know Java.

I ended up making a Flash-PHP-mySQL chat room. But then again, to keep integrity into refreshing, it was quite impossible without using Java .

SO if you're ok with using Flash, there are a great tool especially made for socket-service:

http://www.electrotank.com/ElectroServer/
(the free version lets you use up to 20 connections at the time)



As I said, I may be wrong, and a recent search got this returned as socket-servers and PHP. I didn't read those yet, but you should sure take a look:

http://forums.devshed.com/archive/t-63082

http://odbcsock.sourceforge.net/faq.html ]
http://odbcsock.sourceforge.net/faq.html [/URL]
(ODCB server with XML for PHP client)

http://forums.devshed.com/archive/t-63082]
http://forums.devshed.com/archive/t-63082[/URL]

[MothBall]

Thanks for the info. Will have a read