Building something like Omegle

Question

I want to implement a Omegle like chat system on a website, which will match up 2 people in a chatroom.

The problem is that i don't know if this is possible with just PHP and MySQL, because these are the only programming languages i have learned so far.

So the question is:

Is it possible to develop such a thing with PHP and MySQL?

if not what else is needed?

Thanks

ps. i have heard about node.js and socket.io, but would rather avoid using my time learning those two if it there's another way...

PHP and MySQL are like [zombo.com](http://zombo.com) - everything is possible. — Marc B, Nov 16 '11 at 20:30
@MarcB - Bahahaha, what the hell was that? Not come across that one before. — Polynomial, Nov 16 '11 at 20:35
@Polynomial: zombo's been around for over a decade. Still have no idea if it's got a real purpose, or is just a longstanding joke. — Marc B, Nov 16 '11 at 20:37

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 16 '11 at 22:29

Yes, as mentioned, you could use Javascript or a library like jQuery to handle it or you could try using a pre-built chat system. http://phpfreechat.net

In terms of randomly pairing, you could store all of the active sessions in a database and randomly pair them as long as they are requesting one. Perhaps have a BOOL is_requesting_chat that gets set.

Building something like Omegle

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