Take a look at orbited (orbited.org). You can use that to connect to existing chat protocols like jabber or whatever you want.
Brian On 3/19/10, Anthony Wlodarski <ant92...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I was the sole developer (which I am) $80 would be a steal but then I > have to worry about limitations of the software as well as the > ability/inability to add my own custom code to mould it to my needs. I had > a chance to scan the XMPP website and I like what I see so far. I am going > to spend an hour this afternoon learning more about the product and what is > involved in the implementation. Thank you Dan and Ajai for the > recommendations. > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Dan Cech <dc...@phpwerx.net> wrote: > >> On 3/19/2010 9:42 AM, Anthony Wlodarski wrote: >> > I was discussing with one of the product development individuals at my >> > company the idea of implementing a live chat interface akin to Facebook. >> > Are there any existing open source initiatives (php based) that mimic >> this >> > behaviour or am I going to have to re-invent the wheel Facebook created? >> >> I would go with XMPP in the backend, there are plenty of clients >> available in different languages (including pure javascript). >> >> > Google unfortunately has failed me when I typed in the search term >> "facebook >> > chat php clone". CometChat seemed like a good alternative but I cannot >> > understand the price jump from 49.99 for a branded license to a 129.99 >> > no >> > branding version. >> >> How much development time does $80 buy you if that's the only reason >> you're looking at rolling your own? >> >> Dan >> _______________________________________________ >> New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List >> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >> >> http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation >> > > > > -- > Anthony W. > ant92...@gmail.com > -- Sent from my mobile device Brian O'Connor _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation