[lug] Web chat software recommendations

[Ryan Wheaton]

Hey Everybody,

I've been trying to find a good open source web chat program to run on 
one of our servers.  I can't seem to find one that is really good.  I 
checked sourceforge and googled around some, but all the ones that I 
found were incomplete, or didn't have a lot of the features that I'm 
looking for.  I tried webchat, phpMyChat, and phpOpenChat.  The basic 
functionality that I'm looking for is to require a login to enter a 
chat, and being able to moderate a chat thereafter.  So, basically, I'd 
invite certain people to a chat, they'd log in, and then I'd have a 
special guest (or something like that) there for them to chat with (but 
being able to control what questions make it to the special guest).

Anyone know of a good program?  I guess it doesn't necessarily have to 
be open source, but would like to keep it to be rather inexpensive (< 
$300).


thanks,

-rtw