Creating a web chat program

[rino_2]

Hi,

I have asked this question before and did get an answer but it wasn't quite what I was looking for. I would like to create a chat program completely using VBS. I wouldn't like to create a chat program using ready made code that I just add to my page. If there is somebody who knows how I could do this please help me. Thanks you!

Yeah, there's a chat demo that comes with Flash 4...there's a flash movie that sends commands to and from an asp script.
I haven't looked much at the code behind it but it can't be that hard...here's the contents of the asp file:

<% 

' Encode a number from 0..15 to a single hex digit
Function HexChar(ByVal i)
	If i < 10 Then
		HexChar = Chr(i+Asc("0"))
	Else
		HexChar = Chr(i-10+Asc("A"))
	End If
End Function

' Encode the control and punctuation characters in a string to %xx hex values
Function URLEncode(ByVal s)
	Dim result, ch
	Do While Len(s) > 0
		ch = Asc(s)
		s = Right(s, Len(s)-1)
		If (ch >= Asc("a") And ch <= Asc("z")) Or (ch >= Asc("A") And ch <= Asc("Z")) Then
			result = result & Chr(ch)
		ElseIf ch = Asc(" ") Then
			result = result & "+"
		Else
			'result = result & "*" & ch
			'result = result & "!" & (ch/16) & (ch mod 16)
			result = result & "%" & HexChar(Int(ch/16)) & HexChar(ch Mod 16)
		End If
	Loop
	URLEncode = result
End Function

' Never cache the chat session
Response.Expires = 0

' Get the action to perform
action = Request.QueryString("action")

' Get the passed data
msg = Request.form("msg")
user = Request.form("user")
id = Request.form("id")
If Len(id) = 0 Then
	id = "default"
End If

' Protect access to the chat session
Application.Lock
If action = "send" Then
	' Add the string to the chat session
	list = Application(id)
	list = list + user + ": " + msg + chr(13)
	Application(id) = list
ElseIf action = "clear" Then
	' Clear the chat session
	list = ""
	Application(id) = list
Else 'If action = "update" Then
	' Just return the current chat session
	list = Application(id)
End If
Application.Unlock

' Return the chat session
response.write("list="+URLEncode(list))

%>

Don't tell Macromedia I did that.

[Edited by matthewralston on 05-29-2000 at 07:12 AM]

[rino_2]

Thanks for the help!

Kewl!

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[Mark Sreeves]

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