What's IRC?
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What's IRC?
Is it just like an Instant Messenger?
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Yes, just for chat rooms, but not like RSS. IRC was probably one of the first ever "chat rooms" to appear. You can get al kinds of command line clients or GUI-based clients for it and I'll bet my socks someone has written a PHP one using the ncurses library 
Basically you open your IRC client (which is generic enough to access any IRC chat room), then /connect to a server hosting the chat, /join the chat and off you go.
I forget the exact commands you use, but it's something like that. It's pretty simple to write a basic client for I think.
Basically you open your IRC client (which is generic enough to access any IRC chat room), then /connect to a server hosting the chat, /join the chat and off you go.
I forget the exact commands you use, but it's something like that. It's pretty simple to write a basic client for I think.
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Yes you can use MySQL, but IRC is old and it's generic. If you wrote a MySQL hosted chat room people would have to download the right client for your version of a chat room, or they'd have to go to your website to use your AJAX version or whatever. If a chat room uses IRC, all you need is a generic IRC client.JellyFish wrote:I've heard of it, just never knew what it really was. Can't you just use mySQL to host a chart room or is that what IRC does?
I mean, I could have IRC open now and be sat on the DevNet chat room and also in a Java developers chat room without having to use two different clients. It's just a really generic chat room implementation. It's not like MSN or Yahoo where you have to get an account from a big organisation then downoad the software. I can't really explain any further, just take the advice of others and give it a go