AndybnACT / ChatRoom_PySocket

This is a multi-member chatroom under a client-server architecture implemented by Python 3

ChatRoom_PySocket

Requirements

There is no need to install any extra libraries. The program is running on Python 3.5 using the standard packages only.

Usage

• Make sure that you are running on Python 3.5 or above
• Set up the server side: You should run the server-side script whenever you wish to start up a new chatroom.
  • 1. Make sure that your ip address is resolvable by clients
  • 2. Run the script with Python 3.5.
  • Server-Side Commands:
    • [mode]: show status all of clients
    • [close]: close connection of a particular client
    • [close all]: terminate all connections, shutdown the server
    • [broadcast]: send a server-side message to all clients
  • Warnings: Make sure that all member thread are terminated before shutting down the server gracefully.
• Connect to the server from clients: The member of the chatroom are implemented by client-side script. You could join a chatroom by specifying server's IP and port number
  • 1. Modify variables portno and server_name as server's port number and IP address
  • Client-Side Commands:
    • [CLOSE]: leave the chatroom
    • [#username]: send unicast message to a user whose name is username
    • [##]: Get the latest members' information

Todo list

• Automatically append clients whenever the server receives connections (10/27/2017)
• FTP server
• Dump most recent records to new members