A working Chat module for Drupal?

Posted by HS on April 8, 2009 at 10:01pm

Is there not a working chat module for Drupal? Almost every chat module that exists is either not fully functional or plagued with bugs and not ready for production use on a Drupal 6x site.

I'm using the Tribune module but I was looking for an option that is not self hosted and ideally flash or ajax based. Any ideas?

Posted this here because a lot of people would want to know this prior to deciding if Drupal is right for them.

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what is "not self hosted"

Posted by mm167 on April 9, 2009 at 9:13am

what is "not self hosted" ?

have u try ..
http://drupal.org/project/chatroom

it is ajax based. for drupal 6.x.

u may also try ...phpFreeChat
if u want more features ..

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Thank you for your response.

Posted by HS on April 9, 2009 at 10:09am

Thank you for your response.

All 5 chat modules, which includes the modules you named, have serious bugs not worthy of use on a production site. Only the Tribune module functions as intended, however on a shared hosting environment it can be slow.

IRC is not a self hosted option right? Similarly other chat options which usually host the chat channel on an external server, not the same server as Drupal instal, would be best.

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Posted by WorldFallz on April 9, 2009 at 11:33am

I use phpfreechat on my main site no problem. Good feature set, works great.

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Thank you for the response.

Posted by HS on April 9, 2009 at 12:05pm

Thank you for the response. I'm assuming your on the older Drupal 5?

This is the issue queue on 6x-1.1 - some critical bugs have no responses for 5 weeks.

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Posted by WorldFallz on April 10, 2009 at 6:54pm

No, I'm using the current d6 version but I don't use autonick=true and allow anonymous users to chat at the same time.

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Mibbit

Posted by navinjathan on April 10, 2009 at 6:01pm

I checked out the Mibbit demo.. Looks very good to me.. Its for chatting on IRC

www.sliverxtreme.org

@navinjathan, All the demos

Posted by HS on April 13, 2009 at 1:08pm

@navinjathan,

All the demos look awesome buddy, not sure about functionality. Right now PHPChat and Tribune seem to be the most stable.

Tribune can be enabled ina block and a full chat room, not sure if PHPchat can be enabled in a block like a shouitbox.

Tribune Module

Posted by nbz on April 13, 2009 at 12:03am

I use the Tribune module on my site and would recommend it greatly.

http://drupal.org/project/tribune