Chat Script

[neumannu47]

Is there a chat script that is installable by Fantastico on Ohio? If not, can someone recommend one that is easy to install?

[TechWeasel]

Not that I know of in Fantastico - but there are at least two intigrated into cPanel.

Just click on the "Chatroom" icon in cPanel X (or Scripts -> Chatroom in xcontroller) and I recall it will give you HTML to cut and paste into your page.

Haven't tried this, but they should give you basic functionality. If you need a more robust solution from a third-party script - make sure it's Java-based and not CGI based (a condition of the PZ TOS is to only use Java chat clients to relieve the heavy load chat can put on the server).

[edwurster]

In xcontroller, I only see phpmychat. In x I see chatroom also. Click on the chatroom icon, and then you see the html code mentioned by techweasel. Just below that is a java link that you would include in your html.

Phpmychat is an install, and uses a mysql database.

[brywool]

The ones included are not that great. Some are too clugey, some don't work that well.

Can anybody recommend a decent, installable chat program that works?

[edwurster]

Originally Posted by brywool

The ones included are not that great. Some are too clugey, some don't work that well.

Can anybody recommend a decent, installable chat program that works?

I agree wtih you about the CPANEL chats. The load is probably a concern.

TikiWiki has a shout box among other features. It may not be your idea of chat, but it seems to work fine.