Build an anonymous random chat website with a PHP and MySQL script designed for simple, registration-free conversations.

Users can join with one click and get matched with another person who is currently searching. The system creates private one-to-one text chats and provides online, searching and active-chat statistics.

The script also supports photo sharing with server-side validation for file type, size and image resolution. Upload protection includes randomized filenames and an uploads-folder configuration intended to prevent PHP execution.

The mobile-friendly interface includes sound notifications for matches, messages and chat endings, along with a typing indicator hook and helpful starter-message buttons.

On the backend, anonymous users are identified with cookies and UUIDs, while separate tables handle users, chats, messages and the search queue. Flood protection and automatic cleanup help manage chat activity and stale queue entries.

The codebase can be rebranded and customized with your own text, colors, favicon and sounds for an anonymous chat or dating-style website.

• Random anonymous user matching through a search queue

• One-click “Find a partner” matching workflow

• Private one-to-one text chat

• Real-time messaging using long polling via AJAX

• Connect, disconnect and error system messages

• Photo sharing with JPG, PNG, GIF and WebP support

• Configurable photo upload size limit, with 5 MB default

• Image resolution and MIME-type validation

• Randomized filenames for uploaded images

• Upload-folder protection against PHP execution

• Sound notifications for matches, sent/received messages and chat endings

• “User is typing…” indicator support

• Starter phrases and question helper buttons

• Auto-resizing message textarea

• Mobile-optimized frontend

• Online user statistics

• Searching-user statistics

• Active chat statistics

• Anonymous identification using cookies and UUIDs

• Database tables for users, chats, messages and search queue

• Flood protection based on configurable message limits

• Automatic cleanup of old search queue entries

• Partner-left detection using last activity

• SEO meta tags and keywords for anonymous chat and no-registration chat

• Web server with PHP 7.4 or newer

• PHP 8.x recommended by the source

• MySQL or MariaDB database

• InnoDB support

• PDO enabled

• PHP pdo_mysql extension

• PHP mbstring extension

• PHP json extension

• PHP fileinfo extension

• GD or a compatible image-processing module

• Writable /uploads directory

• Ability to create and configure a MySQL database and user

• Ability to import the supplied anonlov.sql database file

• Ability to configure database credentials in config.php

• Web-server permissions for the uploads directory