Chat application using CFWebsocket - coldfusion

Question

How can we develop a facebook like chat application using cfwebsocket. There is no description about how to send an user entered message to the server and how to send that message to a particular client from the server.
<script type="text/javascript">
function mymessagehandler(aevent, atoken)
{
console.log(aevent);
console.log(atoken);
var message = aevent.msg;
var txt=document.getElementById("myDiv");
txt.innerHTML = txt.innerHTML + message +"<br>";
}
</script>
<cfwebsocket name="mycfwebsocketobject" onmessage="mymessagehandler" subscribeto="stocks" >
<cfdiv id="myDiv"></cfdiv>
The above code just prints ok in the display. I am not sure how to pass my message inside the stocks object. Can anyone help on this? Thanks in advance
This is the stocks application that I am using
this.wschannels = [ {name="stocks", cfclistener="myChannelListener" }];

Answer 1

This is what I have did to make my chat application work
This is the chat application
<cfwebsocket name="ChatSocket" onOpen="openHandler" onMessage="msgHandler" onError="errHandler">
This is the script
function openHandler(){
//Subscribe to the channel, pass in headers for filtering later
ChatSocket.subscribe('chatChannel',{name: 'TheUserName', UserID: 'TheUserID', AccountID: 'AnUniqueID' });
}
// function to send the message. we can call this when the user clicks on send message
function publish(userID){
var msg = {
AccountID: "AnUniqueID",
publisher: userID,
id: userID,
message: document.getElementById("Name").value + " : " + document.getElementById("message").value
};
//When including headers, the "selector" is where you will filter who it goes to.
var headers = {
AccountID: "AnUniqueID",
publisher: userID,
id: userID
};
// we can save the chat history by an ajax call here
ChatSocket.publish('chatChannel',msg, headers);
}
// this is the receiving function
function msgHandler(message){
// if condition to display the message to the user who are sending and receiving
if(message.data !== undefined && message.data.message !== undefined && (message.data.id == '#session.userID#' || message.data.publisher == '#session.userID#')) {
var data = message.data.message;
console.log(data);
//showing the message
var txt=document.getElementById("myDiv");
txt.innerHTML+= data + "<br>";
}
}
function errHandler(err){
console.log('err');
console.log(err);
}