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chat functionality on php application

SO has lot many questions of this type but not able to find correct solution. May be I am missing anything.

I am struggling from last few days for finding better option for Chat service. Following thing I have to keep in mind before using any option..

  • It should be OS independent
  • Installation should be easy
  • Opensource so that can be modify as per requirement.
  • Lightweight
  • Chat Client should be customizable and lightweight
  • File Sharing, Private Chat, Group Chat, emotions should be there.
  • Chat should not allow user to connect with other outsider chat servers like gmail, AOL, etc..

I have developed chat service using Openfire server as chat server and Jetty applet as client. But this applet is not as userfriendly and need to work a lot to make it look like gmail chat or facebook chat.. Also I am going to use Zend framework, PHP, MySQL, Apache server. And server OS could be windows or Linux.

Here are few more questions...

  • Is there way to use openfire server as chat server with some other javascript/AJAX/Dojo as Client?
  • How we can use XAMPP-BOSH for Chat service? Is this XAMPP is related to XAMPP server of apache, PHP, etc...?
  • How we can use Dojo.io.cometd library for chat?
Solution

  • I have set openfire http-bind port to 8181 previously 7070.

    Following changes i have done in ijab_config.js 

    xmpp:{ 
domain:"ipaddress", 
http_bind:"/http-bind/", 
host:"ipaddress:8181", 
port:5222, 
server_type:"Openfire", 
muc_servernode:"ipaddress",
...
}

    and following will go to .htaccess file which will be placed in htdocs 

    AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 
Options +MultiViews 
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>  
      RewriteEngine On 
      RewriteRule http-bind/ http://ipaddress:8181/http-bind  [P] 
</IfModule>

    Here ipaddress can be replace with localhost or domain name.