How can one set up an IRC chat on their website using PHP?

Setting up an IRC chat on a website using PHP involves connecting to an IRC server and creating a socket connection to send and receive messages. You can use the PHP socket functions to establish a connection to the IRC server and handle incoming messages. By parsing the messages received from the IRC server, you can display them in a chat interface on your website. 

<?php
// Connect to the IRC server
$server = 'irc.example.com';
$port = 6667;
$channel = '#example';
$nick = 'YourNick';
$socket = fsockopen($server, $port);

// Join the IRC channel
fwrite($socket, "USER $nick 0 * :$nick\r\n");
fwrite($socket, "NICK $nick\r\n");
fwrite($socket, "JOIN $channel\r\n");

// Read messages from the IRC server
while (!feof($socket)) {
    $message = fgets($socket);
    // Parse and display the message in your chat interface
    echo $message;
}

// Close the socket connection
fclose($socket);
?>

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