can i integrate chat?

[sweinrib]

is there a chat module that will work well with pligg?
i am looking/ hoping to install something like php live chat. will this program integrate with pligg? if not is there some other form of chat software that i can use to integrate?

[Yankidank]

I know a long way around this, which will cost you $5. It's a long workaround for a simple problem, and a lot of it is just me guessing that it will work because I haven't tried this yet.

1. Install Pligg
2. Download and install PHPBB
3. Download and install the PHPBB Module for Pligg, this "allows users logging into your Pligg site to also be logged into a local phpBB2 install."
4. Once you have confirmed that PHPBB has successfully integrated with Pligg buy FlashChat from Tufat.com (great site)
5. When installing FlashChat, choose the integration with PHPBB database option and it should be able to hook in with all of your users automatically.

[mightyb]

Download and install the PHPBB Module for Pligg, this "allows users logging into your Pligg site to also be logged into a local phpBB2 install.

What do you do with the files and where do you put them? Thanks!

[Yankidank]

I made a video tutorial just for you mightyb. It demonstrates how to install and configure the phpbb module. I suggest the high resolution download if you are going to try to read all of that text, youtube doesn't do it justice.

YouTube - Pligg PHPBB Module

Grab the high-resolution version from Rapidshare
Runtime: 3 minutes exactly
Difficulty: Easy

[mightyb]

Legend! i now have a working forum.


Whenever a new user registers they get this however:

PHP Code:

http://www.mydomain.co.uk/modules/phpbb2/create_user.php?username=username&password=password&email=email&return=/user.php?login=username 


Apart from that its all good.

PS: Its not just me who will find this useful

[endph]

I made cbox to work with my pligg installation. It works with ajax too!

check my site here: http://www.insidecaraga.uk.to

[alaink2]

Originally Posted by endph

I made cbox to work with my pligg installation. It works with ajax too!

check my site here: http://www.insidecaraga.uk.to

Could you share how you did the cbox so we all can have it? You did a great job........thank for sharing it....

[mightyb]

You can use an ajax shoutbox or chatbox. There are a lot of good ones free. Like http://yurivish.com/yshout/ What you do then is follow their install/integration instructions. If you want it to show only to loged in users, stick this around the empty div tag in yshout's case:

PHP Code:

{if $user_authenticated eq true}

{/if} 


[endph]

Originally Posted by alaink2

Could you share how you did the cbox so we all can have it? You did a great job........thank for sharing it....

Ok, here's how I do it

1. create a tpl file and name it shoutbox.tpl

then paste this code inside

<li>
<div class="box" id="shoutbox">
<h1><span class="expand"><a id="exprss" class="expand-up"></a></span><a class="htitle">Shoutbox</a></h1>
<!-- CBOX CODE HERE -->
</div>
</li>

2. upload your shoutbox.tpl file inside your sidebar_modules folder

3. after that edit your sidebar.tpl

then add this code anywhere you want your shoutbox to appear.

{assign var=sidebar_module value="shoutbox"}{include file=$the_template_sidebar_modules."/shoutbox.tpl"}

There you have it! Enjoy!

[AxelLottel]

Wow...this thread seems all too complicated when you can go to incircles.com and choose your style (horizontal or vertical, color, etc) then just grab the couple of lines of code and paste in your site. You will have real-time chat running in less than 5 minutes.

This chat client was added to http://www.trustme.com if you want to see an example running.

Incircles is coming out of "alpha" and going to "beta" in a week or two. The new version will be way more configurable and they are also working on an API so when a user logs into your site, their name appears on the chat client (instead of guest). They also said they would be happy to help some sites out with branding by adding their custom logos.

One more bonus is they have also sent traffic as they highlight sites using their client

The best part is that it's completely FREE