MCCHAT: A Server/Client textual C chat

The aim of the project is to create the a multi room chat based on Berkley Socket API. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_sockets. Functionalities provided by the server are:

• concurrent access of multiple clients
• maintaining and showing the clients list
• creating or joining a room
• changing host nickname
• sending a private message to a specific user

Client basic usage:

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• Write to the console to send a message to the current client room
• /room "[ROOMNAME]" to change the current room
• /nickname "[NICKNAME]" to change nickname
• /[NICKNAME] "[MESSAGE]" to send a private message to the nickname specified
• /list "ALL" to get all participants nickname and rooms
• /list "[ROOMNAME]" to see all client in the relative rom
• /help to get the available commands

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How to compile

make clean
make

How to start the server

./chat_server [portNumber]

How to start the client

./chat_client [serverIp] [serverPort]
A demonstration video is available at the url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-33-0DcUfS4

Platform

• Linux, Unix, Mac
• gcc compiler version 4.1+