So today we’re going to give the ability of giving a channel a topic, much like IRC and in the process learn more about the internals of APE. This requires us to modify the libape-chat.c code and create some additions in the chat.js of the Chat Demo. We’re not going to end up with complete code but you’ll see how flexible APE is and how quickly we can extend it.
Following up on my previous post, we used a singleton “class” by using a function. I’ve recently come accross the DUI (Digg User Interface) which is a jQuery plugin and extends jQuery so we can use classes – much similiar to MooTools Class method.
APE (AJAX Push Engine) uses the MooTools library by default which is great, if you work with MooTools. What about us jQuery users? Well with APE it’s very easy to use your own preferred library and I’ll show you how.
APE (AJAX Push Engine) is basically a daemon which acts as a proxy between your client and the HTTPD. It allows thousands of users to exchange real time information through your existing web browser, no reloading and no plug-ins – a web developers dream.