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I find tokbox is a great service for video chat. But is there any other similar service for text-based chat, that provides api, so that i can manage my own users and chat participants.

Thanks

Peacemoon
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In another SO question somebody recommended http://www.phpfreechat.net/ but I've no experience of using the service.

As ever Google is your friend and once you know of a service such as PHP Free Chat you can do a related search and get some other options.

You could also build a chat solution using Pusher, who I work for. We offer a number of publisher libraries and client libraries in different technologies including JavaScript. We offer presence functionality that makes building chat forums really easy which is why it's one of the big use of Pusher.

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There is also CometChat which may be worth looking at.

leggetter
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  • hi, thanks for your answer. I have used Pusher before for another product. It's really ease to use. Unfortunately, pusher is using websocket with flash fallback, which is hard to deploy on mobile devices. I know that the discussion of websocket and long polling are everywhere. Each one has its own advandtage and drawback. That's the reason i want to find a managed server that provide everything i need so that i don't have to care about the implementation – Peacemoon Sep 13 '11 at 11:17
  • Is PHP Free Chat the type of thing you are looking for? Sounds like it uses HTTP Polling (AJAX). Or are you looking for native mobile support? e.g. Objective-C, Java for Android etc. – leggetter Sep 13 '11 at 20:25
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    i am using phonegap to create app for mobile devices. Right now i'm using PubNub for other real time collaboration task. PubNub works greate across all devices i deploy (blackberry, playbook, android, iphone, bada, and also web) But since PubNub is not cheap, i don't want to use its service for chat. That's the reason why i'm looking for other chat service – Peacemoon Sep 13 '11 at 20:28