What is drctalk?

drctalk is a PHP and AJAX program, developed in my spare time and released under Gnu GPL license, to talk (or if you prefer chat) on internet using any browser without the need of a central server. It was a useful exercise for me in order to understand the magic world of AJAX. While this software is highly functional, I consider it to be of beta quality and it hasn't all the features that I would like. At this time I continue to work on it even if I have not so much spare time. Please consider the opportunity to help improving it.

You can try it here in a version ready to be embedded in other pages. If you want to make it larger chenge the attributes in drctalk.css file.

Features

• On server side you need an instance of Apache with PHP. It was tested with these versions of software:
  • Apache version 1.3.34 and 2.2.3
  • PHP Version 4.4.0-4, 4.4.1 and 5.2.0
• on client side I tested it with Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 6.0.X. JavaScript has to be enabled in both browsers.

1. Extract the tar package under any directory and cd in drctalk-X.X.X created directory;
2. copy the files
   • drctalk.php
   • drcfunc.php
   • drcutil.php
   • drctalk.css
   • drcajax.js
   • drcbase.js
   • drctalk.js
   • drcupdt.js
   • drcutil.js
   on some place under Apache htdocs path. In the browser call:

   	http://yourserver/...directory.../drctalk.php
   

   and then follow the simple instructions described in the application.

• Encryption on client side;
• code cleaning.