Question

I have recently read some threads about embedding chat like skype chat into websites but most of them were outdated. So do you have ideas about a fast way (if it’s possible) of embedding a chat into a website? Is there a way of embedding known chat engines? like skype, ebuddy, digsby, yahoo chat.. etc. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

1. Get a mysql database and a webserver with php
2. Program a script on serverside which can do 2 things:

a: Save user inputs to the database
b: Echo all changes since last pull to the user

Then you just need to create a client (in this case the website) with an form which uses AJAX to push new messages to the server and a timer to pull new messages.

For that you just need to learn Javascript and PHP.

(A Java plugin would work too but there have recently been some security leaks *g*)

And if you are too lazy to learn coding just use something like Joomla or Webspell, they should have chat plugins you can download.