Voice Chat

As far as I can tell, yahoo.com has had a lot of success with its voice chat. I'm trying to implement a similar chat system using PHP on a website that I am developing.

I'm still a beginner to the PHP experience, and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas as to how to do this? Or if anyone knows of any code samples that I could look at to get some ideas, it would be very helpful. So far, I haven’t been able to find any literature or resources that indicate that PHP can be used in this manner. If anyone has some ideas, I would love to hear them.

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Can U explain a little more what your voice chat is going to be ?

Live voice chat is better left for something like a java-applet that runs client-side to handle. I don't think that php is suited for things like that, but it may just be possible to coerce it into doing what you want.... though it'd be a real mission..

Thanks for the input guys. As tempting as it may be to take on this project with PHP, I think that you are right CmdrDats. A java applet is probably more suited to this task.

To answer your question greggory, if you take a look at yahoo's chat page, you'll pretty much see what I'm looking to accomplish. The owner of the website that I am working on is an author that is trying to push his book. He finds that yahoo voice chat is very effective in getting his message out.

That being said, he wants a single chat room built on his website, where users can discuss his book. And the chat room must be voice enabled. I realize that this may not be specific details on what I'm trying to do, but it was purposely left open ended so that I could at least get some brain storming going.

I appreciate all of your input guys.

Thanks