The Hablator is an advanced GPL’ed chat script written in PHP and Javascript. It offers all of the features you could want in a chat script, while maintaining low server requirements, low client requirements, exceptional speed, and simple installation. In addition, The Hablator contains some features not found in any other chat scripts (I am aware of)! If you do not want to read the blog post I wrote, the most notable non-standard chat features include:
- Translate chat text to communicate with those who speak other languages.
- See when others start and stop typing a message
- Upload files easily during discussions
- Allow multiple discussion “topics” to let users discuss different things at the same time, and not need to install multiple chat rooms and/or prefix each message with the discussion topic. This allows users to engage in one or more topics, and follow others they are interested in.
- Choose whether to use a FlatFile backend, a MySQL backend, or a SQLite backend
- Talk to people who don’t have Javascript support, or to people with text-only browsers, with compatibility mode
The Hablator is available under the GPL.
You can see the readme here. The changelog is here.
Have fun with it!
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The Hablator is no longer under active development. Use it at your own risk.
Download
Download The Hablator 0.5.2 “Rose” (tar.gz)
Download The Hablator 0.5.2 “Rose” (zip)
Latest release: September 2009