Indie-Resource.com

A good chat that I've just implemented as a side bar is phpfreechat, allows you to really mess with the code, and if you don't mine lots of files, you could just create a separate instance of each chat for different alliances, locations, worlds, etc etc, so not all the users are on one chat, using div tags, and and iframe (to capture my chat page) I managed to get a simple but effective side bar chat that allows me to get the nickname from the sessions so players can only send as their username etc etc, lots of easy to understand features, example is below:

iframes are pants tbh.

and its not hard to implament location, alliance/guild and group chat into an ajax chat box if you know where to look. and without adding a ton of files.

ahh well, heres me a week and a bit into learning PHP coding! AJAX i've seen about, still tbh have no idea what it means, does etc!

and iframes probs are pants, hopefully I'll slowly learn better ways to do it, but with my current skill set this was the best I could do