[TriLUG] online web chat server recommendations?

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Thu Feb 5 23:04:29 EST 2004


Very cool App for business use!  I'm going to have to implement one of
these for a test run.

Thanks Ryan and Paul!

Jon Carnes

On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 12:44, Paul Damer wrote:
> Ryan,
> You might try out a web based IRC client like cgiirc 
> (http://cgiirc.sourceforge.net/ ) 
> 
> That way you get a web based system with all the options of IRC.
> 
> -Paul
> 
> 
> Ryan Wheaton wrote:
> 
> > Hey Everybody,
> >
> > I've been trying to find a good open source web chat program to run on 
> > one of our servers.  I can't seem to find one that is really good.  I 
> > checked sourceforge and googled around some, but all the ones that I 
> > found were incomplete, or didn't have a lot of the features that I'm 
> > looking for.  I tried webchat, phpMyChat, and phpOpenChat.  The basic 
> > functionality that I'm looking for is to require a login to enter a 
> > chat, and being able to moderate a chat thereafter.  So, basically, 
> > I'd invite certain people to a chat, they'd log in, and then I'd have 
> > a special guest (or something like that) there for them to chat with 
> > (but being able to control what questions make it to the special guest).
> >
> > Anyone know of a good program?  I guess it doesn't necessarily have to 
> > be open source, but would like to keep it to be rather inexpensive (< 
> > $300).
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > -rtw
> >




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