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Live chat is software or web widget which allows users to communicate with each other, or with an administrator in real time.

Live chat is software or web widget which allows users to communicate with each other, or with an administrator in real time.

Usually, live chat software performs constant asynchronous requests to the server in order to constantly keep the messages and the status up to date.

There are live chat instances where more than 2 users can communicate - usually these are called Chat Rooms. Also, a wide-spread alternative of live chat is the Video Chat - this is live chat, which works together with video broadcasting, sent and received simultaneously from each user.

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Chat server for Rails

As it is evident that AJAX based chats do not scale, so what would you use for chats? Custom servers? Or any other methods? Since with Rails each chat connection will take lots of memory, it won't be feasible to even have Rails run for each message.…
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best chat server for messaging like facebook and whatsapp

I want to choose the best technology for chat like facebook and whatsapp. I have gone through Ejabberd and Socket.IO Can anyone suggest the best chat server.
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Error communicating with server in horde cpanel

Anybody can help me to solve, 'error communicating with server' when I refresh the inbox message using Horde in cpanel? Was it because the live chat that I installed few hours before or was there something else that cause the problem ? Thanks.
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Server chat application

I need for a project to build a live chat with: group chat room private chat (user-user); web site interface; mobile interface; others information (profile etc). I want to start obviously from the server: any PHP framework or tutorial to do this…
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Looking for secure video/audio/text chat solution (like BigBlueButton)

Case: create chat room with video/audio/text support for a certain period of time. Users can join through unique URL. No need to install 3rd party software for clients (except Flash-plugins etc.). BigBlueButton has all this but I am not sure if it's…
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Database Denormalization?

Just to provide some context, I am working on a realtime chat application using Pusher(Websocket Service over cloud), where each messaged is logged in my server before it is pushed to the websocket server which in turn pushes the data to the…
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Some questions about Create live Chat Application in Asp.net

wanna create a Live Chat Application in asp.net (c#) i have some questions about that. 1-what is best way? (fastest way - secure way - optimized way) for save chat data? in text file? in XML file? or in MS SQL Server? 2-How can i solve large number…
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Not getting all chats in livechat api

this code is only returning the current day chats. not all from the 1st january 2015. What should i do now to get all chats from the given date. $url = "https://api.livechatinc.com/chats?\date_from=2015-01-01"; $curl =…
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auto update online user list when new userlogin

    foreach ($this->showonline as $key => $friend) {
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How to implement live chat in ios

Is there any tutorial or sample available implementing a live chat iPad application?
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how to implement live chat in iphone using XMPP framework?

i want to implement chat functionality in my iphone application.For that i want to use XMPP framework.for that i have checked the tutorial how to integrate xmapp in phone application. http://code.google.com/p/xmppframework/wiki/iPhone but from where…
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Customer support chat using laravel

I am working on some laravel project in which i want to provide live chat for customer services. Customer fill some information then chat will be start for example you can see demo https://www.telenor.com.pk/ or http://www.mobilink.com.pk/. There is…
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Building scalable chat server that can handle millions of users concurrently

What is the best method to implement? can akka using java language handle millions of users at the same time? concurrently? Or there are different approach? I prefer using java, if anyone can just tell me the Technic i should use that uses java…
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Android and php live chat application

we have to build a simple chat application on both android and cake php pointing to common database. I have searched on Internet for basics to get started with chat application on Android. But I am not getting any good hints. Can u explain me…
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Android Chatting application

I am making a chatting application in android. I am able to perform the live chatting. But i am not able to get when the user is online or offline. How can I achieve the same Thanks here is the code private void getListener() { Roster roster…
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