Re: [PHP] PHP Web-Chat Software

2004-04-13 Thread Galen
Hi, You guys are all making some great suggestions. I think that javascript option (hidden frame) would work pretty well. I've done stuff like that on a project, though for a different purpose. However, I'm not really looking to write my own chat software right now. Maybe I will if it's absolu

Re: [PHP] PHP Web-Chat Software

2004-04-13 Thread Kelly Hallman
Apr 13 at 4:04pm, Terence wrote: > while (10==10) { // cool while loop > /* ... */ flush(); sleep(1); } ?> Not sure I see the efficacy of this approach for the problem at hand, but what gets me is the cool while loop :) 10==10 is always going to evaluate true, and I realize that this is an infi

Re: [PHP] PHP Web-Chat Software

2004-04-13 Thread Terence
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 3:38 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP Web-Chat Software Elfyn, I've seen stuff like that. The problem comes in with the refreshing: 1) many browsers flicker when a refresh happens 2) refreshes must occur very frequently to make chat window fee

Re: [PHP] PHP Web-Chat Software

2004-04-13 Thread Galen
Elfyn, I've seen stuff like that. The problem comes in with the refreshing: 1) many browsers flicker when a refresh happens 2) refreshes must occur very frequently to make chat window feel "responsive" 3) frequent refreshes make window "flicker" annoyingly often on some browsers I'm poking aro

Re: [PHP] PHP Web-Chat Software

2004-04-13 Thread Elfyn McBratney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Galen, On Tuesday 13 Apr 2004 07:12, Galen wrote: > Hi PHP people, > > I'm looking for PHP-based chat software. This is more of casual thing, > otherwise I'd go out and write my own that works exactly the way I > want, but I just don't have the