A few days ago, I installed some chat script on a site of mine. I guess I told you about my quest for such a thing before actually doing it, but I can’t say that I am completely happy with the thing I got, and since there’s always something better than what you have… here’s another one!
To be honest, I won’t play with Php Free Chat anytime soon, but it’s good to have it in my “scripts to try” list, and if you need to add chat functionality to some project of yours, this is a good script to start with, since a lot of people find it to be a really good one.
Php Free Chat is a LGPL open source program, with support for customized CSS style sheets, and additional plugins can be easily written to enhance its functionality, for example to store conversations into a database, instead of external files, as it happens by default.
Installing it is extremely easy, since it doesn’t need a database to be up & running, and you users will surely find it really easy to use, since its commands are irc-inspired, and the interface is very similar to those found in mIRC and XChat.
Compatibility: since it uses PHP and XAJAX, Php Free Chat should work with any browser you can think of, probably even with the text-based ones (unfortunately, I wasn’t able to try the online demo in such a browser, so I can’t say it for sure, but if you give it a try, some feedback here would be more than welcomed!)
