Easiest way to make comet chat

Question

I need to make tet-a-tet comet chat with many channels using PHP as a backend and JQuery as a frontend. I need something like event-driven server to do this... But didnt find any simple and appplicable to my task. Please, tell me the best solution for this problem

Answer 1

You may a look for Reverse Ajax term. Probably the APE project will help you.

Answer 2

You can create a daemon: http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/create_daemons_in_php/