A MySQL Driven Chat Script - Conclusion

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Creating and promoting visitor interaction on your site doesn’t have to take a lot of time or cost a lot of money! The chat script we have just created can act as a great base onto which you can build a complete web based chat application. Here are some ideas to improve the performance of our chat script:

• Show a list of the people currently using the chat. Add a logout button, another frame, and another table to the database. When they login, add a record of their name to the new table. When they logout, remove their name from the table. Inside of the new frame, simply use a SELECT query to list all of the people currently using the chat script. Add a <meta> tag to the frame to make it refresh every 30 seconds.
• Allow users to private message each other.
• Add more icons-icons and allow visitors to send images as part of their message (just get the URL of the image from them).
• Let the visitors create groups. Each group can contain more than one channel, which is an instance of a chat session.
• Whenever a URL is typed into the text box (such as http://www.devarticles.com), make the top frame automatically display it as a hyperlink.

Also, be sure to take a look at some of the links below if you’re after more information on creating an online chatting application. If you want to get serious and learn more about PHP or MySQL, I would recommend the books shown below.

Until next time, I hope you enjoy playing around with the chat application. Remember you can download the SQL script, source code and images by clicking on the “supporting material” link below.

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