Please Help Me

[Mike4x4]

Hello im making a basic chat like a shoutbox kind of and i have a few frames - Onlinelist, Message and chat window. In message you can type something but it dosnt appear on the chat window how do i do this?

You can see what i mean here -> www.php.ninechat.com/production/ninechat

[Archbob]

I don't see a "submit" button on the forum for the message. Also are you using flush and ob_flush ton refresh the page?

Usually in a shoutbox, every time you input and hit "submit", it just refreshes the page and the what you just typed comes out.

[Mike4x4]

you type then press enter. How would i be able to get it to work

[ultk]

It's posting the message to your script so I wouldn't be worrying about the submit button.

1) Is the script processing the messages being posted actually saving the message? Do you store it in a db or a file? Is the message showing up where it's meant to be?

2) If it is being saved properly then look at the script showing the messages.

[Mike4x4]

i want to store it on a database how would i do that?

[ultk]

Well you'd need to make sure that you have a database available. Create your tables and connect to it from your scripts. Depending on which database you have you would use different functions in php. Check out the manual.

I think you'd probably be better off using a premade shoutbox if your skills aren't quite up to it. Unless you want to learn.

There's some good db tutorials on www.zend.com and www.phpbuilder.com. For some shoutbox scripts try www.hotscripts.com