By ratinakage on

Hi there,

My developer and I want to create our own chat application.  We don't want to use a chat module.  We want a very custom chat system.

I've been told that PHP / MySQL is too slow to support real-time chat.  Is this true?   Should we be looking at Node.JS as an alternative?

Another question.  When implementing a chat, would each message in the chat be a node?  If the app were to scale, there would be a crazy number of messages.  Is there a better way of implementing this?

Thanks!!

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VM commented

I wouldn't suggest messages as nodes. I agree that you should be looking at javascript for this type of feature.