Hi,

I caught PBS's show at DrupalCon, and I'd very much like to use this module as they are. Is the module ready to be used? What would I have to do to duplicate their functionality?

It's a really nifty module and I'd very much appreciate your help.

Thanks.

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Hi nicholas,

There are a few features and bug-fixes I have on deck to be committed, I am hoping to get to it this weekend.

The API is solid, but I want to release it with a few more features (DB-backend, memcache, javascript hooks).

To duplicate the PBS Chat functionality, you'll need to use the API. I'm hoping to release more feature complete modules based on this API, but that is down the line a bit.

Basically, you would create a Content Type "Question" with an Answer field and an 'Asked bit'.
Create a view of all questions that are 'asked'.
On that view you would load live_update_initialize to start a live chat (perhaps a preprocess function). Then with nodeapi($op == 'presave') you would check if the question has an answer. If it does run it through live_update_update() which will update anyone watching the view.

Anyway, I look forward to hearing your experience and fixing bugs you find.

Thanks,
John

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This blog post will be of interest: http://www.chapterthree.com/blog/jon_skulski/question_and_answers_using_...

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