Messenging in game?

[Lord Impero]

Hi all,
Is it possible to make a mini messenger built in an rpg that allows people to send their messages across to a friend and see their character’s appearance without using complicated things like smartfox and using just flash and php/mysql?
Thanks,
Impero

[noTime]

In fact, it can be accomplished even with PHP only.

[Joppe]

Yes.

[Lord Impero]

Great :P
How about seeing other characters moving around?

[Lord Impero]

Anyone?

[blazes]

need a socket server.

[Lord Impero]

^ :( is that hard to understand and make?

[Afflict]

Can any body tell Lord Impero how to make this?

[Lord Rahl]

Socket Servers are not to bad to understand and do. I myself have tried a little, and found it not to bad. But I only went as far as creating a simple connection. I never got around to sending the messages in my project (which was a chatroom). Check out Smartfox (http://www.smartfoxserver.com/). It acutally has a chatroom design tutorial on this site and in the files somewhere. You can learn to send the simple text messages to other people from the chatroom file and tutorial.

[signifer123]

To make a socket server is pain in C at least, and i've tried it in java, wasn't as bad but i still had trouble.(I'm quite sure i can do it now)
i recommend you use a premade one, there really no reason to make your own, there are opensource ones out there that you can feel free to edit. And theres red5 which is a opensource version of flash communication server with some extra stuff. So it can handle multimedia too.


I guess you could use a php socket server if you really wanted to, thoguh i feel running such a high level to update often would bring the server down to its knees.