Hi folks.

I need to set up a public chat room for something next month, I could go the web based route but I really don't like doing it that way very much.

Does anyone know of a way to set up a public chat room using something like MSN as the client? I know I can do it with Skype but I would prefer something a little thinner.

You might try Microsoft Netmeeting. It comes with XP but not automatically setup, they want you to use MSN. Just use the run command and type in "conf" without the quotes. It's meant for conferencing but has chat, white board, camera (though newer drivers may not work).

You might try Microsoft Netmeeting. It comes with XP but not automatically setup, they want you to use MSN. Just use the run command and type in "conf" without the quotes. It's meant for conferencing but has chat, white board, camera (though newer drivers may not work).

I havn't used netmeeting in years, it used to work quite well I rememeber.

I don't think it will suit my needs for this task though, I basically want to add a link to a web page that would pull the user into a chat room, I think I'm probably going to have to go the web based route, I can't think of any other way to do it.

Hmm, maybe some sort of javascript thingy fronting a IRC channel might work, time for a bit of a google I think.

You did mention that you prefer not to have something web based. Haven't really checked out all options but I am sure there are some PHP scripts here that may be of use?

Chat Clients - PHP

TB

I've used the web-based application "FlashChat" (Darren's Script Archive - google for it) with great results. Extremely feature laden and easy to integrate into your website.

It's free to use, but a $5 donation gets you the source code to modify it any way you want.

My vote would be for Flashchat too. If you need more feature, I'd also take a look at VMukti.

EDIT: typo

My vote would be for Flashchat too. If you need more feature, I'd also take a look at VMukti.

EDIT: typo

Cheers guys, although I didn't want a web based chat client I think I'm going to have to use one and Flashchat looks decent enough.