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john kim
john kim

Reputation:

Making a chat room with Facebook authentication

I'm having a hard time figuring out how to create an embeddable online chat room that requires a Facebook authentication. I want the chat room to be public, allow users to log in with their Facebook accounts, and chat with each other using their Facebook identity(name). I know how to authenticate users into a website using FBML and FQL, but I don't know how to incorporate that concept in creating a chat room. Facebook Chat uses XMPP, so I looked up XMPP multi chat documentation, but I can't understand really well. I can do PHP and JavaScript(jQuery/JSON/etc). Can someone help me how to go about making such a chat room?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1883

Answers (1)

Abhinav Singh
Abhinav Singh

Reputation: 2651

Building such a thing will not be possible until unless you hack your way around this. Not possible mainly because facebook still lacks federation i.e. as soon as fb chat servers sees [email protected] trying to send a message of type "groupchat" to a MUC room [email protected], it will block this message stanza and not pass it on to the MUC room.

Hacking such a thing will involve writing your custom Jabber/XMPP components running at your own chat servers, which will then take care of outgoing messages of type "groupchat" from your system and re-route them appropriately to the MUC rooms. Jaxl IM is a project which does exactly the same thing and it uses Jaxl (Jabber XMPP Library in PHP) library for all such purposes.

Upvotes: 1

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