Questions tagged [chat]

Generic term for "Instant Messaging System". It can also represent a discussion that occurs in an Instant Messaging System.

In terms of computing, chat refers to methodologies and applications to enable to transmission and receipt of messages between end users, whether text or media (e.g voice, video), as well as the content of any such communication.

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Firebase & Swift: How to use another database for storing larger files?

I am currently trying to build a chat application in swift whilst using Firebase for real-time messaging. My only issue is I want users to send images, I want them to have profiles with images but I know Firebase has limited storage (or at least…
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Symfony2 (WebsocketBundle) - Simple private (and group) chat database schema and logic

I would like to implement a very simple chat in a website, with private messages between 2 registered and logged-in users (and possibly even group messages between logged-in users). Take Whatsup as an example, but of course I won't have that many…
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How create a P2P web-chat without any server?

is there a way to create a P2P web-chat without any server ?
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didReceiveRemoteNotification not being called when I tap on app icon after receiving a push notification while on background

When my app is on background and I receive a remote notification, two things can happen: I tap on the push notification banner, my apps comes to foreground and didReceiveRemoteNotification is called. I tap on my app icon from the springboard, my…
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How to develop a large chat application with Socket.io and Node.js

I've been working with Socket.io over the past few months, developing a fairly complex chat application with chat rooms, kicking/banning/moderators/friends/etc. Over the course of development, I've rewritten the app several times and I'm still…
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Comet & PHP: How to use Comet with a PHP Chat System?

I have to build a simple chat system in PHP using Comet. I don't know what would be the best approach to this project. What is the best technique (cross-browser would be nice) to use, and how to implement it? What libraries can I use that already…
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SignalR multiple chat rooms

I am planning to create a chat application, and I've read that SignalR is one of the best technologies to apply. I've seen examples of it, but they only have a single chat room. I want to have multiple chat rooms. The user will just choose one of…
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iOS 5 - Include chat within application

I am developing a iOS 5 application and we have to include a chat application within it. The chat have to show the messages and the list of connected users (users in the chat tab in the app). There are two types of users (normal users and…
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how to get same xmpp connection from one activity to another?

i am new programmer.i would like to implement sample application for getting chat by using xmpp server.In this implementation i have created connection by using ConnectionConfiguration object as follows : ConnectionConfiguration connConfig =new…
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How to write a TCP chat server with Deno?

One of the demos that really convinced me of the power of Node was the simple TCP chat server that Ryan Dahl presented in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo_B4LTHi3I&t=28m23s Here's what the code in the demo looked like: const net =…
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XMPP/Jabber on Django (chat server)

I'm looking to write a real time chat server in Django using XMPP/Jabber protocol (with mobile clients). Django will handle the user profile and inbox (non-real time part) through HTTP while the real time component should go through XMPP. I was…
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How to group chat messages per user?

I have a group chat message build using Vue.js. I am currently fetching the messages which returns an array like this: "data":[ { "id":1, "message":"

yo<\/p>", "removed":"false", "user":{ "uid":2, …

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How to make fast, lightweight, economic online chat with PHP + JS + (MySQL?) + (AJAX?)

What way will be best to write online chat with js? If i would use AJAX and update information about users and messages every 5sec - HTTP requests and answers will make big traffic and requests will make high server load. But how another? Sockets?…
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C# TCP/IP simple chat with multiple-clients

I'm learning c# socket programming. So, I decided to make a TCP chat, the basic idea is that A client send data to the server, then the server broadcast it for all the clients online (in this case all the clients are in a dictionary). When there is…
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XMPP web chat: how to resolve multiple tabs/windows?

We have a site and we developed a chat system for it using strophe.js library and ejabberd XMPP server. We use session attachment that was initiated with PHP (using an in-house library). What we do is get the RID and SID from the PHP script, then…
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