Instant messaging for logged-in users
Hi,
I'm searching for the best solution to provide 1-to-1 instant messaging functionality to logged-in users. My wishlist:
- a block with logged-in users (that's the easy part)
- when you click on a user, a chat window opens (no additional actions like login, create nickname, create chatroom etc.)
- when you send a message, it shows up on the screen of the other user
- not dependant on other accounts like msn, icq
- chats are 1-to-1; closed and invisible for others
- if possible, I would like not to be dependant of externally hosted 3rd party services
- Drupal 5
I've been looking at a number of modules, such as:
http://drupal.org/project/phpfreechat
http://drupal.org/project/messaging
http://drupal.org/project/ajaxim
http://drupal.org/project/xmpp
http://drupal.org/project/chatroom
Unfortunately they all seem to have their shortcomings. What would be the best solution? If there is not an out-of-the-box solution, should I take one of the modules and adapt it?
Thanks.