good IRC server for mambo?

[adminres]

Hi,

After a brief survey I found several IRC (chat) clients components for mambo,
but I couldn´t find a complete IRC server/client component. My purpose would be to setup a private chat room integrated in mambo 4.5.2 only for registered users. Could you help me with this issue?

Best regards,
Paulo Mascarenhas

[jack]

The IRC protocol that an IRC server uses is a connection oriented protocol. This means that it requires a persistent connection between the client and the server. To run an IRC server you should need the availability to run an application that will stay in the memory and will answer on eventual connection efforts from IRC clients. On a shared hosting server there is no chance a system administrator to permit you to run your own IRC server. It also can not be integrated with Mambo because every web application (that runs on the HTTP protocol) is called occasionally and is not running in the background the whole time.

But I think that there should be free IRC servers that you can point your IRC client mambo component to use.

I do not know much about those components but if they properly use the IRC protocol they should be connection oriented as well (I am not sure if it can be done otherwise). This should lead to the conclusion that they must run the whole time while a client chats. So they should use a client based script (the java technology is called applet, the Microsoft is activeX, there should be others too) to establish and not loose the connection. But in most cases such applications can make connections only to the host that they were loaded from.

So in my opinion the odds are not on your side.

[adminres]

Hi Jack,

Thanks for the enlightment about irc servers. So, the only chance to have my own server, is to install it in my own computer, but as I have a very limited home bandwith to spent I´ll tryout the mambo chat client components connected to a free web IRC server, as suggested.

Best regards,
Paulo Mascarenhas

[kenny]

Is it necessary to use IRC for this purpose?

There are other implementations of "chat" applications that do not require persistent tcp sessions, like Blab!Chat, phpMyChat etc. There is no problem running one of these on a shared hosting account, and I am pretty sure they can be integrated in Mambo easily, there may be ready made solutions already.

[neednam]

http://mamboforge.net/projects/mospjirc/

mamboforge is a great resource.