PHP chatroom...help!

**Filmgirl** · 02-04-2004, 02:59 PM

I just set up an PHP chatroom on my site http://www.lana-clark.com

and I want to put the Who's Online set up onto the main page, but I have no idea what the hell the READ ME is saying...

I mean the first step:

Add this line at the beginning of a PHP file

What PHP file?!

Anyway, here's what the READ ME said, someone put it into english terms....thanks!:

Quote:

WHO'S ONLINE?

Here you have some instructions how to print
a list of the users online on any page of your site.

1. Add this line at the beginning of a PHP file:

<?php $pth='xxx';include "$pth/incl/users.inc"; ?>

where 'xxx' should be a correct relative path to your chat directory.
If you'd like to print the list on your main page - http://your-site.com/index.php ,
and the chat lives in a directory: http://your-site.com/friends/simple-chat/ ,
you should set $pth='friends/simple-chat';

2. Call the function whos_online(); using one argument which would separate the users.
<?php whos_online('<br>'); ?>

The following lines are a simple example of http://your-site.com/index.php

--- INDEX.PHP starts here ---

<?php $pth='friends/simple-chat';include "$pth/incl/users.inc"; ?>

<html><head>
<title>MY MAIN PAGE</title>
</head><body>


<div style="background-color:#cccccc">
<?php whos_online(''); ?>
</div><br>


<div style="background-color:#aaaaaa">
<?php whos_online('<br>'); ?>
</div><br>

</body></html>

--- INDEX.PHP ends here ---

**ACJavascript** · 02-04-2004, 05:50 PM

Hey Filmgirl,

When they say PHP file they mean - yourpage.php

In order to have the whos_online() function to work, it needs to be in a .php file.

You can just take your .html page and change the extension to .php and then you have a .php page

Once you have done that just take the code they show you and put it into your page.