[PHP] How does one build a big chat system?

2001-02-09 Thread Jens Kisters
The approaches i've so far using PHP is letting a script run (almost) infinitely and refresh the output every 500ms or so, but this will require a httpd-Process to run for every chatter, consuming several MB per User. Any other suggestions which will cause less server load? I don't think that

Re: [PHP] How does one build a big chat system?

2001-02-09 Thread Christian Reiniger
On Friday 09 February 2001 12:23, Jens Kisters wrote: The approaches i've so far using PHP is letting a script run (almost) infinitely and refresh the output every 500ms or so, but this will require a httpd-Process to run for every chatter, consuming several MB per User. Any other

Re: [PHP] How does one build a big chat system?

2001-02-09 Thread Michael Stearne
How does one build a big chat system? Not in PHP :-). Really though, PHP is probably not the optimal language to do something like that in. I would think a Java Servlet or a C program or a Java applet (client) would be better for building something like that. PHP was not designed to keep a

Re: [PHP] How does one build a big chat system?

2001-02-09 Thread Jens Kisters
Grab one of the many java IRC applets from http://freshmeat.net and run an irc server on your box. http wasn't designed for this type of thing. I've seen a lot of Chatsites that run without Clientside Java, it can't be such a weird approach, I don't think the admins of the System the chat is