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When you are about to integrate a Facebook or Gtalk style (XMPP based) chat system into your website you will need the followings:

• A chat server
• A js based chat client
• Find a way to connect website accounts with chatserver accounts

The first two are simple. The last one is a bit harder. In most case you need to change the users database structure to be compatible with chat server. It can interfere with other part of your site, so it is not a best solution. Fortunately it is not the only way. The other solution is to make an integratable chat server control interface. In this case you need only a slight modification in the website's code and hook the user creation/modification/deletion process. In that hook simply call the interface's function. It is so simple because no need to hack/reconfigure server and user's table. ... read more