Is there anyway to set up a chat so that only people in your state can access it ?

You can use htaccess to do that by IPs

There's no 100% way to enforce such a limitation and if you were to block all IPs but the ones associated with your state you would have a tremendously huge list of IPs... Then also if you were to only allow IPs that were associated with your state chances are you're going to miss more than a few.

oh so short of requiring people to submit some scanned id there is pretty much no way to do so then ok thanks

You could try using something like GeoIP and adjusting the application to utilize this to only allow certain states/regions. Not fool proof, though.

What about the htacess thing would that work ?

What about the htacess thing would that work ?

You would need to use a list of hundreds of thousands of IP addresses either way to make it work - realistically it's not feasible. If you try doing it with a shared provider you're going to likely end up causing issues and end up suspended/terminated.

You would need a custom coded plug-in for your chat script that would do a geoIP check on the visitor/chatter and then block/accept them based upon that output.

You would need to use a list of hundreds of thousands of IP addresses either way to make it work - realistically it's not feasible. If you try doing it with a shared provider you're going to likely end up causing issues and end up suspended/terminated.

You would need a custom coded plug-in for your chat script that would do a geoIP check on the visitor/chatter and then block/accept them based upon that output.

Understood Iam considering going with a vps account I wrote that geoip thing last night I just waiting to get a answer I go to a lot of so called local chats
problem is every one in the chat is from every where but where the chat is founded, to me that can not be consider a local chat.

Is there anyway to set up a chat so that only people in your state can access it ?

I think you shud try LIVEZILLA, there you can track visitors geographically and while tacking a particular area you can block/unblock users from specific location.