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[djr33]

XMLHttpRequest IS AJAX.

It's the way that you "request" a page through javascript, behind the scenes, then it can do stuff with the contents of that page, like showing it, replacing part of the page, etc etc.

[Twey]

InNeedOfHelp: View the source of the messages frame.
djr33: It's been released for a long time See http://www.twey.co.uk/dd/chat.phps

[djr33]

And I can use that on my site?
Great.
Did I miss when you submitted this to DD? If you haven't, I suggest you should, unless you're wanting to keep it yourself, in which case I understand, but I am sure it would be a big help to people
Thanks!


EDIT: Ah, darn. It's trying to parse the page, and giving a weird javascript error "<?php echo" something or other.
Use .txt, I guess. .phps was so nice before, though, with the color coding...

[Twey]

I didn't submit it because the interface layout (the top bit, at least) belongs to Johnnymushio. Also, he claims there are bugs when using multiple instances with the same database, although I've tried it myself and am unable to reproduce them.

EDIT: Ah, darn. It's trying to parse the page, and giving a weird javascript error "<?php echo" something or other.
Use .txt, I guess. .phps was so nice before, though, with the color coding...

Yeah, unfortunately my new host doesn't parse phps. It sends it as text/plain, though, I think, so your browser shouldn't have a problem unless it's IE.

[djr33]

IE.... or Safari, it seems. Weird. Mozilla works, though.
Thanks

Hey... wait... it uses my pixel color thing too?


(and, with that, this is now officially off topic )


EDIT: I think I also need the info as to what to set up in the database. I can look more later if you don't have the time to check for me.

[Twey]

Oh yeah, I forgot it had your pixel-colour thing

I've an SQL dump somewhere...

-- MySQL dump 10.9
--
-- Host: localhost    Database: twey_japantown
-- ------------------------------------------------------
-- Server version       4.1.20-log

/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
/*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */;
/*!40014 SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0 */;
/*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO' */;
/*!40111 SET @OLD_SQL_NOTES=@@SQL_NOTES, SQL_NOTES=0 */;

--
-- Table structure for table `chat_messages`
--

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `chat_messages`;
CREATE TABLE `chat_messages` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `msg` text,
  `user` int(11) default NULL,
  `time` datetime default NULL,
  `special` int(11) default NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

--
-- Table structure for table `chat_users`
--

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `chat_users`;
CREATE TABLE `chat_users` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `handle` text,
  `font` text,
  `lastseen` datetime default NULL,
  `title` text,
  `logged` tinyint(1) default NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

/*!40000 ALTER TABLE `chat_users` ENABLE KEYS */;

/*!40101 SET SQL_MODE=@OLD_SQL_MODE */;
/*!40014 SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS */;
/*!40014 SET UNIQUE_CHECKS=@OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS */;
/*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
/*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
/*!40101 SET COLLATION_CONNECTION=@OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
/*!40111 SET SQL_NOTES=@OLD_SQL_NOTES */;

[djr33]

Well.... got it running... now to fix the layout and setup the login to coincide with my forum...
Thanks!

Back on topic now, maybe. Heh.

[InNeedofHelp]

http://www.twey.co.uk/dd/chat.phps

^That script is incredible. When i look at that and then look at my chat script it gives me a good laugh.
The XMLHttpRequest looks kind of complicated, but I'll look into it.

While we're on the topic of chatrooms, do either of you have any idea how i would color each persons name separately? Like in AOL Instant Messanger, the color of each persons name is different to kind of keep orientation. How do i do that in PHP?

Thanks.

[Twey]

That script is incredible.

It's not actually all that awesome. It's kind of messy; I've just copied and pasted a lot of code where it wasn't strictly necessary, and the whole setupDatabase() thing isn't needed at all. I was originally going to only call it where a database connection was needed, for efficiency, but with the introduction of the little keep-alive thing it ended up kind of redundant.

While we're on the topic of chatrooms, do either of you have any idea how i would color each persons name separately? Like in AOL Instant Messanger, the color of each persons name is different to kind of keep orientation. How do i do that in PHP?

Again, study the script -- it offers users the choice of their text colour.

[djr33]

There's a cool part of Twey's chatroom (I wrote this part, so I particularly like it) where a user can click on an image (as in jpg) and the color value at that pixel will be outputted and they can use that as their color.
As for rotating through colors... that's a list, and based on who entered first, etc.
Really, it's quite complex to set that up, for no big reason... the colors usually annoy me in AIM. It's also based on each user... not everyone sees the same colors... so it's based on you as red, the next person blue, etc etc., but individual for each person. It would be a whole different aspect to code, and doesn't seem like it's really worth doing that much for it.