PHP-Nuke Chat Module Introduction

PHP-Nuke Chat Module Introduction

A chat room may be a good idea to boost traffic and keep loyal members. Why? Because it makes the PHP-Nuke website more interactive and shorten the distance between your website visitors. With PHP-Nuke

chat module, websites get a live chat room with PHP-Nuke database seamlessly integrated, simple, secure and nice looking with full chat features.

The chat button is suggested to be inserted to the module section and block section too. The key technology is the integration and auto-login features. The following screenshots show you how it's going to look like after the installation and integration is done.

• Chat Button Screenshot

  
  
  Firstly a simple chat button:

Clicking it to launch the chat module as below:

• Chat Module Preview

• 1) Show Chat Data in Chat Block

Furthermore, the following live chat data can be displayed in

PHP-Nuke front page, block section:

* how many people are connected to the chat server
* logon chat user number
* chat room number
* chatting user name list in all chat rooms.

Chat Block Screenshot

2) Auto-login.

The best part of the PHP-Nuke chat module is that once logged in PHP-Nuke, user don't have to re-enter their username or password again to access chat.

Precondition

Before installing the PHP-Nuke chat module, please download 123 Flash Chat Server software from
http://www.123flashchat.com/download.html to get the lastest free demo version firstly.

(123 Flash Chat is a shareware, not freeware.)

123 Flash Chat Server Software Introduction

123 Flash Chat server software is a feature rich and high performance Java chat server with an amazing Flash chat client! It's a fast, easy and affordable way to host live chat room. 123 Flash Chat server software can integrate existing databases for forums or websites. It's fully customizable for admins and end-users.

Online Demo

1) PHP-Nuke Integrated Demo

http://phpnuke.123flashchat.com/

2) General Demo of 123 Flash Chat Server Software

http://www.123flashchat.com/demo.html

You can select skin and language to test all the alternatives.

Download PHP-Nuke Chat Module

- Module (1): for PHP-Nuke and 123FlashChat on one phisical server:

http://www.123flashchat.com/download/phpnuke_
mod_for_123flashchat.zip

DIY Installation Tutorial

You host the chat and phpNuke, ie: chat and phpNuke are located on the same server,
please refer to: "phpnuke_install_mod.html".

Remark

PHP-Nuke is a news automated system specially designed to be used in Intranets and Internet. The Administrator has total control of his web site, registered users, and he will have in the hand a powerful assembly of tools to maintain an active and 100% interactive web site using databases.

To be able to use PHP-Nuke you need a computer, an SQL database server (highly tested on MySQL), Apache Web server and PHP version 4.x installed and running. All these programs are available for free in the Internet.

PHP-Nuke runs well on the following Operating Systems:

• Linux
• Any Unix flavor
• OS/2
• Any Windows flavor
• MacOS
• FreeBSD

The system has been high tested on Linux systems, the other operating system has been reported by users that works great. In the future BeOS will be supported, this depends on the MySQL BeOS version to be released soon.

There are many similar programs and projects like Slash, PHPweblog, PHPSlash, Thatware, Sips, NewsPro, etc, but PHP-Nuke is designed to be very customizable and flexible, is easy and pleasant to use, thinking about webmasters who pass hours administrating his web site.
PHP-Nuke also offers a very high number of features not present on other systems and on each release we'll add much more new and cool features.

PHP-Nuke distribution comes with English language set by default, but you can change it to your own language.