Web Based Live Chat may refer to any kind of communication over the Internet that offers a real-time transmission of text messages from sender to receiver. The aim of the study is to Design and Implement a Web Based Live Chat Application that will allow users within an intranet / internet connection to engage in private and public conversations. In achieving this aim, the following specific objectives were laid out to develop a conceptual design for a secure, accessible and user-friendly web based Live Chat Application, and perform tests on the said system to assure functionality, accessibility and usability of the system. The motivation that led to the implementation of the proposed system is that, group work cannot be done independently with intermediate synchronous response from all members in the group in one location and message broadcast within split of second has always been a challenge.
The methodology adopted in this study is the structured system analysis and design methodology (SSADM) which is a technical approach for analyzing and designing an application or system by applying object throughout the software development process. This project focuses on solving the problem by developing an application for communication services in Nigeria Society. The Live Chat Application is a web-based application intended to be accessible from the internet or intranet. This allows the application to be available to both mobile phone users and PC users who can access the internet from their devices. The Live Chat Applications system was developed using open source web technologies notably HTML, PHP, JSON, JQUERY, AJAX and MySQL. The proposed system produced in this research work has functions that will enable students, lecturers, and staff or various departments in the institution to communicate using asynchronous string transfer know as chatting between each other. The developed application was tested using the WAMP application suite and the test results show that the application works as expected.
