Thread: My first Instant Messenger chat application :D

Hey

This is my first instant messenger app (PHP). Well, 4th. That is if you're including my attempts that failed misurably

Here's the link
Chat Applicaiton

Project .zip:
http://staff.passion4web.co.uk/ben/i...at/project.zip

Note:
It's not finished. I started it yesterday

Could you guys leave some feedback? I'm 18 and ive been studying php for about a year and a half now

Ah, chat rooms. I've implemented this in greater or lesser degrees four times, with http forms and http-refresh, with ajax and with websockets. It's a fun thing to do.

This one looks pretty all right.

A few comments:
The php code:
It's better, I think, to use isset to check if a value has been set rather than empty.
The mysql_* interface has been depricated. That said, I think you should use mysql_real_escape_string rather than addslashes to escape content in mysql queries.
It might be better to identify owners of rooms by sessions rather than IP as more than one computer can share the same (internet) IP

The app:
When you type out a message and hit enter, it should automatically delete the message you just wrote from the input field.

Thanks for the feedback

I did have something that was meant to remove the message
$("input:text[name=message]").val('');

But that doesn't seem to do the job, i'll have a look a bit later on and fix it

And "The mysql_* interface has been depricated"
You you explain a ltitle more please?

Originally Posted by benzilla04

And "The mysql_* interface has been depricated"
You you explain a ltitle more please?

It's not actually a problem, I just thought you should be aware. PHP: Choosing an API - Manual

Oh cool, thanks man