[TriLUG] online web chat server recommendations?

[Paul Damer]

Ryan,
You might try out a web based IRC client like cgiirc 
(http://cgiirc.sourceforge.net/ ) 

That way you get a web based system with all the options of IRC.

-Paul


Ryan Wheaton wrote:

> Hey Everybody,
>
> I've been trying to find a good open source web chat program to run on 
> one of our servers.  I can't seem to find one that is really good.  I 
> checked sourceforge and googled around some, but all the ones that I 
> found were incomplete, or didn't have a lot of the features that I'm 
> looking for.  I tried webchat, phpMyChat, and phpOpenChat.  The basic 
> functionality that I'm looking for is to require a login to enter a 
> chat, and being able to moderate a chat thereafter.  So, basically, 
> I'd invite certain people to a chat, they'd log in, and then I'd have 
> a special guest (or something like that) there for them to chat with 
> (but being able to control what questions make it to the special guest).
>
> Anyone know of a good program?  I guess it doesn't necessarily have to 
> be open source, but would like to keep it to be rather inexpensive (< 
> $300).
>
>
> thanks,
>
> -rtw
>