A simply shoutbox based on a flat file database. phpSHOUT now comes with a admin section to easily manage your posts. Edit and delete user posts and even ban ip address. Along with the admin seciton phpSHOUT has many cool features. Smilies, Two toned background posts, bad language filter, pagination archive, word wrapping, flood control to prevent spammers and many more. All features can be switched on or off and are fully customisable. Very quick and easy to install. The great thing about phpSHOUT is that it's based on a flat file database and there is no programming involved in setting up a database. Also the best part is its completely FREE!

ARSC is an easy to install, simple to handle, cross-browser compatible chat system with its own socket server. If you have a modern browser with frame support and JavaScript 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 doesn't support frames, you can still chat using ARSC. Unlike many other PHP/MySQL webchats, ARSC can be run using a non-forking socketserver to handle all message transport. The socketserver of ARSC works very ressource-friendly and can handle way more users.

phpMyChat is a PHP/MySQL-based multi-room online chat program. It features: User can configure the number of messages to be displayed, the chat screen refresh rate, User customizable font color, User list display, and more. phpMyChat currently supports English, French, Spanish, and Italian.

SmartIRC is a PHP class for communication with IRC networks, which conforms to the RFC 2812 (IRC). It's an API that handles all IRC protocol messages. This class is designed for creating IRC bots, chats and show irc related info on webpages. Changes in the new 0.5.5 version: Several important bugs were fixed, like unregistered timehandlers that are tried to be called. Most bugfixes were in the channel sync code. Minor features like checking for isOpped(), isVoiced() and isBanned() were added. Tracking of the channel key is now supported, and the reconnect() function takes advantage of it. Compatibilty with PHP 5.0.0b1 was tested.

This is a Web-based chat system written in PHP that uses several dbm files. It features user registration, frame-based, and more.

CShout is a customizable shoutbox. It features emoticons, flooding control, searching, a bad words filter, and more. It allows the admin to remove unwanted shouts on the fly. Separate configuration files make customization easy. It still runs well for those using browsers with no Javascript/AJAX support.

This is a very very basic shoutbox. Allows people to post a shout. You can customize some colors, and any way you want to display the shoutbox. In later versions things such as emoticons and neat stuff will be added.

SkyeBox is a simple, user-friendly shoutbox. It is flat-file, which means it works with different files to save the data, and not a database. The only thing you need is a web server with PHP support and a browser.

kShoutBox is the most easy to use ShoutBox as well as to maintain the ShoutBox. Because it includes an easy to use installer, and an Admin Area (control panel). You can easily edit and delete posts from there.

An easy to configure PHP chatbox solution for websites that require an easy to use, secure chat facility. Stores all chat information in a text file so doesn't require a SQL server. Includes an administration interface to ban users, message character limit and smilies, html is blocked except for italic and bold tags, this stops malicious users from adding javascript and other annoying code. Future release will have flood protection and other features. A SQL version may also be released.