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Voodoo chatWelcome to the Vlad Vostrykh's Voc-project homepage!Voc is a stream-chat engine which is designed to work on high-loaded chat-servers. It is written in PHP, but uses Perl or C++ for Voc-daemon -- the special program to handle multiple user-connections. With Voc you can establish a chat which will serve hundreds of visitors simultaneously. And it's html-based, so your chatters can use it from almost any browser. The Voc-engine includes a lot of features so it will be interested not only for a big chat owners, find more at the about page
 Latest voc-project news: 15-th Sep 2006 There is a version of mod_voc (socket-forwarding module) for the web-server nginx: ngx_http_voc_module.c. 23-d Feb 2005 Version of mod_voc for Apache 2 is available for download and tests. mod_voc2.c Instructions are the same as for mod_voc.c (Apache 1.3.x module) -- just don't forget to add 2 into filename :). Currently checked only as DSO (compiled with apxs utility). 8-th Oct 2004 Small update, fixes problem with smileys, 1.0 RC1b, download If you have installed 1.0 RC1 already, just replace file chat/sender.php with new one from http://vochat.com/sender.txt (don't forget to rename it to .php after downloading) 7-th Oct 2004 1.0 Release Candidat 1 is published. download Since this version, there are no more differences between windows and unix versions, so you can download any archive you like. The only difference is a packager (zip or tar.gz). Changelog: + images posting (from harddisc & from other server) + configurable mod_voc + configurable avatar settings + additional parameter 'history size' for a welcome-page + statistic in c++ daemon (/vocd?stat) + removes 'session id' from messages i 'default' skin is renamed to 'basic' (which is more correct i think :)) i conv.php generates smileys-codes with *code* (star at the end) i my_time() for 'last action' and 'ban' times i colors are always in default language (the same list for all users if they use different layout languages) - bug fixes: robot answers in mysql_engine ban_check in mysql_engine private frame in mysql_engine tail ids updating in daemon.cpp, mysql_engine ranges for int values in profile udpate times for ban are displayed in system-language (the same for all users) check for an image-type when uploaded (not just for file-extension) htmlnick in mysql-ld_engine rooms deletion in admin-zone some xss 19-th Apr 2004 New version, 1.0 beta 2. Download here Bug-fixes of 1.0 beta (especially in MySQL-engine). Try and send your comments to the forum :) 8-th Apr 2004 New version, 1.0 beta. Download here Changelog: + limit for the number of nicks registered on one email address + password reminder + pre-moderated rooms (messages from ordinary users must be approved by moderator) + possibility to use HTML-nicks (i.e. you can use some image to display your nick in the list) + examples of bad words filter (check chat/inc_badwords_filter.php) + messages formats were splitted (added 'from me' variants) + pages charset is configurable now (will be automatically applied to all pages and mails) + improvements in hi-tech skin + avatars can be used in messages frame (configurable) + messages window can be easy splitted to two (for 'normal' and 'private' messages) + ban by 'browser hash' + ban by ip-subnetwork (i.e. 192.168.1.xxx) + selectable interface language + mod_voc Apache module which allows you to use the chat-daemon through apache 1.3.x (it means that daemon will be accessable on the same port as all other pages) + SharedMemroy was rewrited to use PHP's shmop_* functions - bug fixesPlease, write you bug-reports into the forum 25-th Feb 2004 New logos :), thanx to timtak, At the moment logos are displayed in a random way. If you're prefered one of them, change the <img src="http://voc.sourceforge.php/pr.php"...> tag in selected design, just add ?l=N to script name, where N is a number from 0 to 6, see below: pr.php?l=0: pr.php?l=1: pr.php?l=2: pr.php?l=3: pr.php?l=4: pr.php?l=5: pr.php?l=6: 24-th Feb 2004 Ukrainian Language pack, thanx to Vitaliy Prudyus, , http://vitaliy.iatp.org.ua 31-st Jan 2004 Project has own domain name now. And new hostng, thanx to chat.flirt.ru. 2-head Xeon server, 4 logical cpu :). Should work better than sf.net with thousands users online. I'm transfering content and for some time not all services will be available. 23-d Jan 2004 Azerbaijan language-pack, thanx to download 2-nd Dec 2003 Four new language-packs for the last chat-version! :) Spanish, thanx to Abe Pazos French, thanx Olivier Santiano And two German versions :) German 1, thanx to Andreas Fiebrich German 2 (includes the help file), thanx to Thorsten Wilkop As usual, check "downloads" 18-th Sep 2003 Chinese language-pack is available, thanx to Liyuanzao 8-th Sep 2003 Romanian language-pack is in "downloads", thanx to 2-nd Sep 2003 If you're using MySQL-engine and C++ version of the daemon, please change daemon.cpp: replace line 1005 from return 0; to return current; Precompiled version in the downloads has been updated (0.20.31b) 1-st Sep 2003 small update, voc-0.20.31a and windows version are in the download-area 31-st Aug 2003 At the last summer day I'm presenting the new version, voc-0.20.31 The main improvements is in registration process. This version is also has some bug-fixes and security-improvements, so I'd recommend you to update your chat. Changelog: + registration with image-code + registration with activation code to email + club mode (only registered users can login) + some admin function in files-engine was rewrited to operate with 1000-lines block, not the whole file important if there is a lot of registered users (>10 000) in the chat + configuration script was redesigned to make installation procedure easier + error handler + some security improvements + changes in daemon.cpp to avoid problem with different gcc versions (2.96, 3.2.1) - bug fixes The windows version will be published in next two days. enjoy :) 3-d Jul 2003 David Zavoral, sent me a new czech-lang file (for latest voc-version), 99-smileys pack, and "brown" skin (which is based on Sirius's "silver"). As usual, check download area 16-th Jun 2003 The new version voc-0.18.16 has been released! It includes the new daemon written in C++ (for MySQL & Files engines and only for *nix systems). That daemon is 10-15 times faster than perl-version, and it can serve even more visitors (it was working with almost 500 users online). Some other changes: + messages and ban/unban logging + options to hihglight messages if there is nick inside + options to enable bold, italic & underlined messages + configurable limits for user photos + new admin rights -- edit & delete registered user. + passwords are crypted with md5 i ban now uses 'canonical' nicks And, as ususal, some bug-fixes :) In the download area you can find Win- and *nix-versions of chat, pre-compiled versions of C++ daemon for Linux and FreeBSD, and special version of perl-daemon wich works as windows system-service. There are two new skins (blue and silver) in download-area. You can test it at my demo-chat. Thanx again to Emin Sadykhov aka Sirius 8-th Apr 2003 After one year of developing I'm glad to introduce the new release, voc-0.16.08 The main new feature is 'admin-permissions'. The new version also includes some important updates, so I recommend to update. The 'Voodoo chat' now includes 80-90% of features I want to see in the 'ideal chat', so probably version 1.0 will be released soon :) Check download area |