fChat Project FOM
This was a project for an assignment at my university. It is heavily influenced by the live chat from PHP ZAG, so check out their tutorial.
We took their 3 base classes chat.js, chat.php and index.php and started from there adapting it to what we needed it to be.
IDE https://netbeans.apache.org/ Database workbench https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/ PHP interpreter