Several questions regarding chat script

tomfmason · July 20, 2006

Ok I have several questions regarding a live support Script that I am creating. Here is the code that I have so far. The layout is very simple. This is just for testing purposes.

[b]The chat login[/b]

[code=php:0]<?php
if (isset($nick)) {
if (empty($nick)) {
$error = "nick";
}
include('db.php');
$sql = mysql_query("INSERT INTO chat(nick) VALUES('$nick')") or die (mysql_error());

if (!$sql) {
$error = "sql";
}
$filename = "$nick.html";
$handle = fopen($filename, "x+b");
$body = "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"2\">
<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex\">
<p>
Welcome <b>$nick</b>, an operator will be with you shortly.
</p>


</p>";
fwrite($handle, $body);
fclose($handle);
include('chat.php');
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<p><h3>Please Enter your nick name</h3></p>
<?php
if ($error == "nick") {
echo "You did not enter a nick name";
}
if ($error == "sql") {
echo "Something when wrong with the MySQL query.";
}
?>
<form action="enter_chat.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="nick" size="20">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

</body>
</html>[/code]

ok I guess I will start with the questions about this script.

First, how can I retrieve the chat_id from the data base so that I may create a html file like this [b]$nick.$chat_id.html[/b]

Second, is a refresh rate of 2 seconds to much? Can I make it refresh, on both the client side and operator side, when a new line is added?

Third, when I have enough messages where you need to scroll down to see the last message. Every time the page refreshes it starts me over at the top line again. Is there a way that, when it refreshes, I can make it go to the bottom of the html file.

Thanks,
Tom

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