What is ARSC?
ARSC is an easy to install, simple to handle, cross-browser and
cross-platform compatible, high-performance open source web chat system
written in PHP, using MySQL.
List of features
- very simple installation
- multiple languages supported
- multiple browsers/platforms supported (even text-based ones)
- comfortable administration interface
- private rooms
- two-leveled moderation system with message queue and Moderator/VIP roles
- graphical smilies
- freely definable layouts, with different layouts possible for individual rooms and/or users
- ID-Cards for registered users, with individual guestbooks on every ID-Card
- text-browser interface even allows chatting with braille screen readers
- security: uses sha1 hashes for passwords and sessionids, and
every single user input is checked against a regular expression of
allowed values
- works with PHP 4 and PHP 5
- works with safe_mode = On and register_globals = Off
Extended description
Once installed on your webserver, ARSC provides a chat interface to the
visitors of your site. Your visitors need no special plugins or
additional software to chat, only their webbrowser. ARSC is licensed
under the GPL, which means it is free (like in "free speech"). It also
comes at no cost (like in "free beer"). You may even use it in your own
software projects.
Chatting with ARSC is very comfortable. If you have a modern browser
with frame support and Javascript support enabled, ARSC makes use of
these technologies. If you have an older browser, or you have
Javascript disabled, or even if you have a browser that does not
support frames, you can still chat with ARSC. Let me say it this way:
With ARSC, chatting on a webpage is possible with every known browser
under the sun that is still in use nowadays.