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php Free Chat is a free, simple to install, fast, customizable and multi languages chat that uses a simple filesystem for message and nickname storage. It uses AJAX to smoothly refresh (no flicker) and display the chat zone and the nickname zone. It supports multi-rooms (/join), private messages, moderation (/kick, /ban), customized themes based on CSS and plugins systems that allows you to write your own storage routines (ex: Mysql, IRC backends …), and your own chat commands !
Sample screenshots.

You only have to copy/paste few lines of code to have a nice working chat. It doesn’t require MySQL or any SQL database, messages and nicknames are simply stored in files. No problems with firewalls, this script is based on HTTP so you only need a web browser and an internet connection. (everyone can easily chat!) No problems with none-latin characteres ! Are you Russian, Japanese, Turk, Chinese, or Arabic? Whatever language you speak, phpfreechat will nicely display your characters because it uses XML with UTF-8 to encode characters.
AJAX technology is used to smoothly refresh (no flicker) and display the chat and nickname zone. Messages and nicknames are stored into a simple filesystem, so that server resources are saved as much as possible. Bandwidth is preserved because the server never transmits the same data twice, only new messages are transmitted.
You can write your own customized CSS stylesheets, to completely change the appearance of your chat. All chat functionalities are customizable. For example, you can change the messages refresh time, you can ban users for changing their usernames, etc. The plugin system allows you to write your own storage routines. For example, you can write a plugin to store the conversations into your database.
A Web server (Apache, IIS, Xitami …)
Write access on the Web server (SSH, FTP, or other)
Doesn’t works with “suphp” apache module enabled for versions < 1.0-beta5
PHP in your webserver
PHP ? 4.1.0 for pfc 0.x and pfc ? 1.0-beta8
PHP ? 4.2.0 for pfc ? 1.0-beta9 (because of “ctype” functions family)
In some cases “safe_mode=On” makes problems
“ctype_*” function family should be enable in your php for pfc ? 1.0-beta9
flock php function needs to be available
By default, you don’t need a Mysql database. The chat uses files to store messages and nicknames.
Host that doesn’t insert advertisement.
Known good hosts .
0 comments Monday 31 Mar 2008 | BestHosting | news, php, webtool, free
BlueHost and Hostmonster, the best web hosting listed on my site, has upgraded their 750 servers 2 weeks ago.
They are forcing all their clients to run Php 5 as default interpreter while keeping Php 4 as an option when Cpanel forcing their user to upgrade to the newer version
Apache has been upgraded to version 2.2.6 from Apache 1.3.x and MySQL upgraded to version 5.2.5.
PHP 4 is being deprecated and I believe more and more host will do similar upgrade very soon.
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FastCGI for PHP makes all your PHP applications run through mod_fastcgi instead of mod_phpsusexec. FastCGI applications are fast because they’re persistent. There is no per-request startup and initialization overhead. This makes possible the development of applications which would otherwise be impractical within the CGI paradigm (e.g. a huge PHP script, or an application which requires a connection to one or more databases).
Advantages :
Potential Problem / Limitation :
Not all PHP host offer this service, but BlueHost and Hostmonster does offer PHP 5 FastCGI feature.
Related :
Understanding FastCGI Application Performance.
About author : This original article is property of Top 10 Web Hosting (http://www.top10webhosting.com). List of best web hosting services company offering PHP and MySQL. Compare & save ! on web hosting fee. Note : Please include author information if you wish to republish this article.1 comment Tuesday 25 Dec 2007 | BestHosting | php, apache, tutorial, tips