Class: AJAX driven simple chat (ajax, chat, ajax chat)

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File	Role	Description
`chat.jpg`	Screen	Chat page
`index.jpg`	Screen	home page

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Name:	Ashraf Gheith `<e-mail contact>`
Published packages:	6
Country:	Bosnia and Herzegovina - PHP jobs in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Home page:	`http://nurazije.blogspot.com/`
Age:	25
All time rank:	95
Week rank:	28

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Innovation Award:

PHP Programming Innovation award nominee

July 2006
Number 3

Chat applications are usually very interactive. Users exchange many messages, often very frequently.

Some Web based chat applications are a bit annoying, as they require frequent page reloading to update and display the messages that the users exchange.

Nowadays, using AJAX is an obvious approach to avoid unwanted page reloads. This class implements a AJAX based chat system precisely to take advantage of that possibility.

Manuel Lemos

Groups:

	Chat	Chating and instant messaging	View top rated classes
	AJAX	Interact with the Web server without page reloading	View top rated classes

Detailed description:

This class can be used to implement a simple Web based chat system that uses AJAX to update the chat dialog display area without reloading the whole page.

The class generates a page with a Web form to submit what each chat line that the users type.

The chat lines are sent to the server using a XMLHttpRequest object.

The chat lines are received by a server side script that uses the class to store what each user entered in a MySQL database table.

In response, the class outputs the chat list already formatted to by displayed in the user browser pages.

Freshmeat project:

Project record:	`ajaxchat`
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Popularity rank:	37,020 (PHP Classes: 268)
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User ratings:

Ratings	Utility	Consistency	Documentation	Examples	Tests	Videos	Overall	Rank
All time:	`Sufficient (75.0%)`	`Sufficient (73.4%)`	`-`	`Sufficient (76.6%)`	`-`	`-`	`Not sure (52.5%)`	985
Month:	Not yet rated by the users

Applications that use this class:

Link	Description
Live example 2	This is a new example of this chat with who is online.
Live example	I have made a live chat with some adds-on.. (email me to send you this one)
Bulgarian	This is an implentation on a Bulgarian site
Yet Another Example	The prototype example

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Files:

File	Role	Description
`chat.php`	Class	The Main Class
`chat.sql`	Data	The SQL code
`refresh.php`	Aux.	Retrieve data from class
`submit.php`	Aux.	Submits data to the class
`index.php`	Example	Example file

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Class: AJAX driven simple chat

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