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First off, not sure if I should be posting for help here about the OekakiPoteto Chat MOD written by marcello or if I should try to get ahold of him...


This is the chat files that were included in the New_Chat folder of the distribution package.

I have opted for this chat, as it is more real time, user friendly, and has a more 'Chat Room' look and feel.

It installed fine, however there seemed to be a delay from when you would start seeing peoples' posts to it.

So once you 'entered', you couldn't see anything for a period of time, usually from 30sec to about 3 minutes. It varied.

During the last couple of days to a week or so, that time delay has significantly become longer, and now can last up to 15 minutes before ANYTHING that is posted is seen!


My first thought was that my server was slightly slow, but that wouldn't explain why the rest of the Oekaki was working zippidy do dah quickly, even my forums that I run on the same site is going smoothly.

My only other thought, was that the MySQL server that I was given is in a different timezone than the server I'm using, so there were some issues between that, but, again, no problem with anything else, just the Chat.

I haven't touched the code for the chat, except for when I tried to make a better function for removing all the old posts that weren't being deleted (The post removal function in the New_Chat wasn't removing any of the old posts at all, so there were still 5000+ posts remaining).

Even then, I reinstated the original code, and made sure I was running JUST the New_Chat.

After failing that, I began to grow suspicious of the PHP itself. The first portions of it ran fine. First section within the <? ?> brackets worked with a small 'Echo' sentance, Second one as well. But at the begining of the third <? ?> set, right at the top where it defines the $last_chat = time() - 300; variable, nothing appears. at all. It waits 15 minutes before even bothering to try and post anything. Like htere's something wrong within that third block, and I can't figure it out.

On the plus side, the server is actually receiving the posts proprely, just the window isn't relaying them back at all.

I hope someone can help, before I started calling my server to complain, when it may not be their fault. (Bad enough I can't seem to get ahold of them on their 24/7 toll free number, saying the number isn't available.  Great service, yeah. Pfft.)


Edit:  Server is located here:

http://www.neosouthisland.com/

Oekaki here:

http://www.neosouthisland.com/oekaki/

Last edited by Kojichan (05-19-2006 00:16:42)