phpChat is chat server written completely in PHP. It is intended both for corporate communication as well as community / public oriented sites wanting to provide chat services to their users.

Licensing

phpChat is free for non-commercial usage only. Please note that for any kind of commercial usage, directly or indirectly, you are required to purchase a license!

For license details, please contact Till Gerken (till@phpwebdev.com)

Details

phpChat is fully based on the widely used IRC protocol, which makes it completely different from the regular database driven chat servers.

While the need for processing the IRC protocol takes a considerable amount of additional overhead in programming, it allows you to:

• link multiple chat boxes together
• create decentral, dynamic chat networks
• link into existing networks with hundreds of thousands of users
• route traffic through existing networks

Of course, stand-alone chats are supported as well.

On top of that, no client-side interaction is needed as all interfacing with the network is done server-side. This enables all users behind a firewall to still use IRC services, as opposed to the common Java clients (which also require you to have a Java-enabled browser).

The interface of phpChat is based completely on templates, which means that you can change its look entirely without touching a single line of code.

The Authors

Author of this project is Till Gerken. (core programming, initial version)
Additional code by Tobias Ratschiller. (templates, session code, javascripting)

Download

Download Version 1.0 beta [tar] | [zip version]