ChaNT is a flexible, powerful, cross-browser and easy to use open source web-based chat system written in PHP and JavaScript.
It has support for BBCode, 3D Animated Smileys with a IM like toolbar for formatting your chat messages. It does not require any browser plugins like Java or Flash. Also it not requires MySQL, all data is stored in ordinary files.
ChaNT includes privacy features such as traffic encryption(client-server-client) and client side password hashing. It have powerful admin control panel and can integrated with many forums and CMS. ChaNT supports all major browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Mozilla.
It has a minimalistic and an elegant user interface which looks and feels a lot like a IM desktop application, since it uses AJAX. ChaNT is very fast, light weight and makes chatting more fun.
You can bookmark this page and return at any time to find the latest ChaNT updates as they`re released.
How does it work?
The ChaNT client side functioning on JavaScript XMLHttpRequest object to asynchronously communicate with the server-side. Server response parsed and used to update the chat window content.
By generating the HTML locally within the browser, and only bringing down JavaScript calls and the actual data, AJAX web pages can appear to load relatively quickly since the payload coming down is much smaller in size.
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