On 3/19/2010 9:42 AM, Anthony Wlodarski wrote: > I was discussing with one of the product development individuals at my > company the idea of implementing a live chat interface akin to Facebook. > Are there any existing open source initiatives (php based) that mimic this > behaviour or am I going to have to re-invent the wheel Facebook created?
I would go with XMPP in the backend, there are plenty of clients available in different languages (including pure javascript). > Google unfortunately has failed me when I typed in the search term "facebook > chat php clone". CometChat seemed like a good alternative but I cannot > understand the price jump from 49.99 for a branded license to a 129.99 no > branding version. How much development time does $80 buy you if that's the only reason you're looking at rolling your own? Dan _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
