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Anonymous
March 11, 2007
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Chat rooms

  • March 11, 2007
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Ok I want to make a chat room for my website. The most simple way to make one would be to create frames. One to post the message and one to send the message. My question is if its that easy to make a chat room, then why do most website use java and flash to make their websites. I want to create chat rooms for my site, but I want to learn the best possible way and why its the best possible way. Can anyone give me some good advice please.
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stpaz
Participating Frequently
March 20, 2007
http://www.opensourcecf.com/cfopenchat/
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Anonymous
March 19, 2007
How exactly are the conversations stored? Are they stored in a Variable, or an Array, or what. How much can a Coldfusion Varible or Array Store ?
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Anonymous
March 16, 2007
I just started with flex a little while ago but due to schedule, not had time to learn it yet very well.

Ajax is something I have not just, but found a chat room using it a while ago, just wish I rememeber where. all source code was there, for some reason, I didnt take it but was simple but extremly functional
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Newsgroup_User
Inspiring
March 15, 2007
the page will have to be refreshed every few seconds to display new
users, new messages.

Which becomes very expensive in bandwidth for any active chat room.
Since the entire interface is being sent every second or two.

The aforementioned ajax, flex and java all have ways to just send the
new content, without repeatedly sending the rest of the interface. Thus
much less bandwidth used.
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Anonymous
March 15, 2007
do you guys use any of those ???
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Anonymous
March 15, 2007
Chat like your talking about is not very efficient...the page will have to be refreshed every few seconds to display new users, new messages.

Search out ajax and chat..should get youu started
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