123 Flash Chat Introduction

123 Flash Chat creates live chat room for the high-load chat events, social network, dating site, online conference, etc., or live support platform for e-business to offer online callcenter. It's a fast, reliable, easy and affordable way to host and manage real-time communication.

123 Flash Chat is a shareware, it offers a free edition for 10 concurrent users to start with, and then 50 to unlimited users license to purchase.

phpBB Chat Module Introduction

With the free module for phpBB, you can add a live chat room to your phpBB in minutes. It makes the phpBB more interactive, turn the visitors to registered members and get them stick to your website. Purposes:

1. Display Chat Data

Firstly a chat button can be added to the top menu of the phpBB as the chat room entrance.

Secondly the following data of the chat room can be displayed on the phpBB front page, and attract more users to join chatting.

• Connection number
• Logon user number
• Chat room number
• Chat user name list in all rooms

2. Auto-login

The module enables auto-login and avoids double-registration or double-login. That is to say, the users log in phpBB using their username and password, and if they want to chat, all they need to do is just clicking the chat icon to enter the chat room, with an existing identity, no bother to register or offer account details again.

Online Demo

1. phpBB Chat Demo

• For PHPBB 3: http://phpbb.123flashchat.com/
• For PHPBB 2: http://phpbb2.123flashchat.com/

2. General Chat Demo

123 Flash Chat server software demo, multiple skins and multilingual:
http://www.123flashchat.com/demo.html

3. Client Showcase

Some customer sites using phpBB and 123FlashChat:

• http://www.supercub.org/phpbb2/
  Supercub.org is a site about Super cub, an active forum.
• http://www.12allchat.com/forum/ or http://www.12allchat.com/community/
  12allchat.com is a social networking site in Qatar.
• Email to support@123flashcaht.com to add your phpBB site here.

Download phpBB Chat Module

• For PHPBB3

http://www.123flashchat.com/download/phpbb_mod_for_123flashchat.zip

• For PHPBB2

http://www.123flashchat.com/download/phpbb2_mod_for_123flashchat.zip

Installation Level: Intermediate
Installation Time: ~5 Minutes
Installation Tutorial: http://www.123flashchat.com/install.xml

Note: You can not install the chat module until installing 123 Flash Chat trial edition first, it's totally free, with 10 users at most and full features for you to play with, and can be downloaded here: http://www.123flashchat.com/download.html.

To install 123 Flash Chat and host chat by yourself, you will need dedicated server or unrestricted shell account, otherwise you may consider our chat hosting service, which starts from $30 monthly.

Remark: phpBB introduction

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