Re: [PHP] web based chat app

On Tuesday 29 April 2008 06:48:38 paragasu wrote:
> i am planning to integrate chat application on my website.
> the idea is to make online user on my website to chat to each other.
> it is using PHP5+jQuery, i want it to be as light as possible. I am not
> sure about the database to use, but i have 3 options.. file based, sqlite3
> or mysql5.
>
> i am thinking to use sqlite3 because it is fast but afraid it cannot handle
> many user
> request (i remember reading it is not so good for multiple user). It is
> also possible to use
> memory based storage /dev/shm (in debian based, i read somewhere - never
> tried yet)
>
> another issue is how to make it light.The chat script should refresh
> every 200ms  to get the best result or even 1 second still bring quite a
> load to the web server.
> anyone ever run a web based application?
>
> or any chat based api i can use out there to save server resource?

You want light outta it?    use the jabber2 server as a backend. It'll be done 
serving while you try to access the database. No need to do a square wheel, 
when a round one is invented



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