YShout: a PHP + AJAX Shoutbox

I have always wanted to see shoutboxes make their way farther across the internets. Hopefully YShout, and other systems like it, can help blaze the trail. YShout is a slim, powerful and standards-compliant shoutbox built on PHP and AJAX. Stylable through the beauty of CSS, installation and customization sound like a breeze. The feature list is also pretty extensive, though only the big new features in this latest v4 release are spotlighted on the product page, such as message deletion, BBcode support, auto-banning flooders and even a customizable word censor. Of course, a test shoutbox is also provided to help you get your feet wet.

To obtain a copy of YShout, Yuri Vishnevsky (the developer) has implemented what I think is a great donationware system: you have to donate something, anything, to snag a download. Before doing that, however, be sure to check out YShout's page for more details to see if YShout is the shoutbox for you.

Tags: ajax, php, shoutbox, yshout