This is a semester assignment for the class of System Programming. It's a chat service app with the ability to chat on a group conversation or with individual users. On this implementation of a chatroom there is a database logic for storing all the information as requested by my professor. This project was made to run on linux and unix based systems.
A Client can register or log in on the chat service with a username and a password. Then has the choice of chating with a contact or in a group chat, add a new friend or group, create a new group that other users can join in and also to detele groups that has create.
The requirements of the assignment are as follow:
- Sing in to the service
- Log in using a username and a password
- Creation of groups
- Delete of a group from its admin
- Every group member can send messages
- Every group member can receive messages
- Maintain contacts
- Send personal messages to a user on the contacts page of the sender
- One server will handle a set of groups
- Retrive old messages (optional)
Compile the server and the client as such
gcc -o server.out server.c -lpthread -lrt
gcc -o client.out client.c -lpthread
First run the server and then as many clients as you want. When executing the client you can optionaly pass as an argument the ip address of the server if it's running on a different machine than the client (works only on local network), on the other hand if no arguments are passed the client is running on localhost.
./server.out
./client.out (optionaly you can type the address of the server, otherwise its localhost)
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