People are always want to know from me how to develop a Facebook live chat application. In this post, i will be giving an idea about chat application with simple JavaScript Codes.
Make Chatting Application with javascript

Chatting Application with Jquery and Ajax

Database
CREATE TABLE chat
(
id INT PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
user VARCHAR(50) UNIQUE,
msg VARCHAR(200),

);
chat.php

Contains PHP, Javascript and HTML code. Run this file with chat.php?user=yourname

<?php
include('db.php');
if($_GET['user'])
{
$user=$_GET['user'];
?>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/
ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var user='<?php echo $user;?>';
// Requesting to Database every 2 seconds
var auto_refresh = setInterval(function ()
{
var last_id=$("ol#update li:last").attr("id");
$.getJSON("chat_json.php?q="+user,function(data)
{
$.each(data.posts, function(i,data)
{
if(last_id != data.id)
{ 
var div_data="<li id='"+data.id+"'><b>"+data.user+"</b>: "+data.msg+"</li>";
$(div_data).appendTo("ol#update");
}
});
});
}, 2000); 

// Inserting records into chat table
$(document).ready(function()
{
$('.post').click(function()
{
var boxval = $("#content").val();
var user = '<?php echo $user;?>';
var dataString = 'user='+ user + '&msg=' + boxval;
if(boxval.length > 0)
{
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "chatajax.php",
data: dataString,
cache: false,
success: function(html)
{
$("ol#update").append(html);
$('#content').val('');
$('#content').focus();
}
});
}
return false;
});
});
</script>
// HTML code
<div>
<form method="post" name="form" action="">
<input type='text' name="content" id="content" />
<input type="submit" value="Post" id="post" class="post"/>
</form>
</div>

<?php } ?>
chatajax.php

Contains PHP code. Inserting records into chat table.

<?php
include('db.php');
if($_POST)
{
$user=htmlentities($_POST['user']);
$msg=htmlentities($_POST['msg']);
$user=mysql_escape_String($user);
$msg=mysql_escape_String($msg);
mysql_query("insert into chat(user,msg)values('$user','$msg')");
$sql=mysql_query("select id from chat where user='$user' order by id desc limit 1");
$row=mysql_fetch_array($sql);
$id=$row['id'];
?>
<li id="<?php echo $id; ?&gt;">
<b><?php echo $user; ?>:</b><?php echo $msg;?>
</li>
<?php
}

?>
chat_json.php

Contains PHP code getting the latest record from the chat table and output result in JSON format. Have Any Problem inform me via the comment section.

<?php
include('db.php');
if($_GET['q'])
{
$user=$_GET['q'];
$sql = mysql_query("select * from chat order by id desc limit 1");
$row=mysql_fetch_array($sql);
$userx=$row['user'];
$id=$row['id'];
$msg=$row['msg'];
if($userx!=$user)
{
echo '{"posts": [';
echo '
{
"id":"'.$id.'",
"user":"'.$userx.'",
"msg":"'.$msg.'"
},'; 
echo ']}';
} } 

?>

db.php

PHP database configuration file

<?php

$mysql_hostname = "Host name";
$mysql_user = "UserName";
$mysql_password = "Password";
$mysql_database = "Database Name";
$bd = mysql_connect($mysql_hostname, $mysql_user, $mysql_password) or die("Could not connect database");
mysql_select_db($mysql_database, $bd) or die("Could not select database");

?>
Hopefully, you are done this programs successfully. If you have any query to ask me via comment. Here I have given all date for make chatting application with jquery and ajax.