M/s VIKASH TECH - Simple Chatbot using PHP with MySQL & jQuery (Ajax)

Hello readers, Today in this blog you'll learn how to create a Simple Chatbot using PHP with MySQL & jQuery (Ajax) <

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Hello readers, Today in this blog you'll learn how to create a Simple Chatbot using PHP with MySQL & jQuery (Ajax)

A chatbot is a computer program designed to simulate human conversation. These chatbots reply to you instantly according to your queries because programmers have inserted thousands of inputs/replies/queries into the database that can be asked by the user. To make an advanced chatbot we've to code more and more but I tried to make a simple chatbot with few lines of codes and queries which help you to get an idea about how chatbot actually works.

In this program [Simple Chatbot using PHP], on the webpage, there is a chat form with an input field and a button labeled as "send" for typing a message and send to the bot. When you ask something to the bot and that query exists in the database then the bot replay a message according to your query instantly but if your query not matched to the database queries then the bot replays a message labeled as "Sorry can't be able to understand you!". In this chatting process, the webpage isn't reloaded because I used jQuery (Ajax) for that.

If you’re feeling difficult to understand what I am saying. You can try Own with below code copy and paste it.

PHP chatbot.php

<!-- Created By praveen kumar -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    
    <!-- <title>Simple Chatbot in PHP | VikashTech</title> -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
    <script src="https://kit.fontawesome.com/a076d05399.js"></script>
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <div class="wrapper">
        <div class="title">Simple Online Chatbot</div>
        <div class="form">
            <div class="bot-inbox inbox">
                <div class="icon">
                    <i class="fas fa-user"></i>
                </div>
                <div class="msg-header">
                    <p>Hello there, how can I help you?</p>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div class="typing-field">
            <div class="input-data">
                <input id="data" type="text" placeholder="Type something here.." required>
                <button id="send-btn">Send</button>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

    <script>
        $(document).ready(function(){
            $("#send-btn").on("click", function(){
                $value = $("#data").val();
                $msg = '<div class="user-inbox inbox"><div class="msg-header"><p>'+ $value +'</p></div></div>';
                $(".form").append($msg);
                $("#data").val('');
                
                // start ajax code
                $.ajax({
                    url: 'message.php',
                    type: 'POST',
                    data: 'text='+$value,
                    success: function(result){
                        $replay = '<div class="bot-inbox inbox"><div class="icon"><i class="fas fa-user"></i></div><div class="msg-header"><p>'+ result +'</p></div></div>';
                        $(".form").append($replay);
                        // when chat goes down the scroll bar automatically comes to the bottom
                        $(".form").scrollTop($(".form")[0].scrollHeight);
                    }
                });
            });
        });
    </script>
    
</body>
</html>

PHP message.php

<!-- Created By praveen kumar-->
<?php
// connecting to database
$conn = mysqli_connect("localhost", "root", "", "bot") or die("Database Error");

// getting user message through ajax
$getMesg = mysqli_real_escape_string($conn, $_POST['text']);

//checking user query to database query
$check_data = "SELECT replies FROM chatbot WHERE queries LIKE '%$getMesg%'";
$run_query = mysqli_query($conn, $check_data) or die("Error");

// if user query matched to database query we'll show the reply otherwise it go to else statement
if(mysqli_num_rows($run_query) > 0){
    //fetching replay from the database according to the user query
    $fetch_data = mysqli_fetch_assoc($run_query);
    //storing replay to a varible which we'll send to ajax
    $replay = $fetch_data['replies'];
    echo $replay;
}else{
    echo "Sorry can't be able to understand you!";
}

?>

CSS style.css

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Poppins:wght@200;300;400;500;600;700&display=swap');
*{
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    font-family: 'Poppins', sans-serif;
}
html,body{
    display: grid;
    height: 100%;
    place-items: center;
}

::selection{
    color: #fff;
    background: #007bff;
}

::-webkit-scrollbar{
    width: 3px;
    border-radius: 25px;
}
::-webkit-scrollbar-track{
    background: #f1f1f1;
}
::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb{
    background: #ddd;
}
::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:hover{
    background: #ccc;
}

.wrapper{
    width: 370px;
    background: #fff;
    border-radius: 5px;
    border: 1px solid lightgrey;
    border-top: 0px;
}
.wrapper .title{
    background: #007bff;
    color: #fff;
    font-size: 20px;
    font-weight: 500;
    line-height: 60px;
    text-align: center;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #006fe6;
    border-radius: 5px 5px 0 0;
}
.wrapper .form{
    padding: 20px 15px;
    min-height: 400px;
    max-height: 400px;
    overflow-y: auto;
}
.wrapper .form .inbox{
    width: 100%;
    display: flex;
    align-items: baseline;
}
.wrapper .form .user-inbox{
    justify-content: flex-end;
    margin: 13px 0;
}
.wrapper .form .inbox .icon{
    height: 40px;
    width: 40px;
    color: #fff;
    text-align: center;
    line-height: 40px;
    border-radius: 50%;
    font-size: 18px;
    background: #007bff;
}
.wrapper .form .inbox .msg-header{
    max-width: 53%;
    margin-left: 10px;
}
.form .inbox .msg-header p{
    color: #fff;
    background: #007bff;
    border-radius: 10px;
    padding: 8px 10px;
    font-size: 14px;
    word-break: break-all;
}
.form .user-inbox .msg-header p{
    color: #333;
    background: #efefef;
}
.wrapper .typing-field{
    display: flex;
    height: 60px;
    width: 100%;
    align-items: center;
    justify-content: space-evenly;
    background: #efefef;
    border-top: 1px solid #d9d9d9;
    border-radius: 0 0 5px 5px;
}
.wrapper .typing-field .input-data{
    height: 40px;
    width: 335px;
    position: relative;
}
.wrapper .typing-field .input-data input{
    height: 100%;
    width: 100%;
    outline: none;
    border: 1px solid transparent;
    padding: 0 80px 0 15px;
    border-radius: 3px;
    font-size: 15px;
    background: #fff;
    transition: all 0.3s ease;
}
.typing-field .input-data input:focus{
    border-color: rgba(0,123,255,0.8);
}
.input-data input::placeholder{
    color: #999999;
    transition: all 0.3s ease;
}
.input-data input:focus::placeholder{
    color: #bfbfbf;
}
.wrapper .typing-field .input-data button{
    position: absolute;
    right: 5px;
    top: 50%;
    height: 30px;
    width: 65px;
    color: #fff;
    font-size: 16px;
    cursor: pointer;
    outline: none;
    opacity: 0;
    pointer-events: none;
    border-radius: 3px;
    background: #007bff;
    border: 1px solid #007bff;
    transform: translateY(-50%);
    transition: all 0.3s ease;
}
.wrapper .typing-field .input-data input:valid ~ button{
    opacity: 1;
    pointer-events: auto;
}
.typing-field .input-data button:hover{
    background: #006fef;
}

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