STEP BY STEP INSTALL, Can someone Help us newbies ?

[bskerr2]

We need a real step by step for us newbies. For example, when installing the com an module the first thing I notice is

A. The component details are in French
B. The module does not seem to do anything.

I am not an expert, other extentions for Joomla seem a little more user friendly. I am very happy someone has taken the time to convert phpfreechat to utChat for use in Joomla, so thanks a lot.

But I do hope that some of you experts that have been able to get this running could help some of us not so experts

[bskerr2]

OK, I found out a few things which should help a few guys at least to get it up and running.

Setting it up,
A. Install Component.
B. Install Module then publish it (this just shows who is online)
C. Create a tab or button and use the URL link with this line in it

"index.php?option=com_utchat"

This was what I was trying to figure out before. To open the chat session you need to open/start the com_utchat component. I am not talking about administration of the component, I am talking about opening it.

D. Goto your component administration, select utChat, and click the second tab, and make sure that the first line which is the admin password setup is set correctly. For example, if you changed your admin name to Bob and the password was Hxx2ef then do this

$utparams['admins']= array("Bob" => "Hxx2ef");

E. Use FireFox to open and test this, IE7 has a known issue that when you open utchat it just shows as loading but never finishes loading. But when I try with firefox it seems to be ok. I am going to try find out why this happens and update this topic later.

------------------------------UPDATE IT SO ITS ALL IN ENGLISH NOT FRENCH-----------------------------------

Language, did you ever notice that the administration of utChat is in French, here is how to change that, there are two ways of doing it,

1. Goto the /administrator/components/com_utchat/languages/

You will see a file called admin.french.php, edit this file and just change it all back to English, example, the line

define('_UTCHAT_GENERAL', 'Général');

Would become

define('_UTCHAT_GENERAL', 'General');

You can go though all of the lines, you should be able to fingure it out becasue the _UTCHAT_bla bla is always in English.

Second way, if you want to have it more tidy so you have the file name admin.English.php just copy the admin.french.php and call it admin.french.php You will still need to go though and edit it as its all in french.

Then you will need to change two files,
modulewhosonline.php (its in your modules directory) look at the directory path around line 30, should look like this

require('administrator/components/com_utchat/languages/admin.french.php');

change it to

require('administrator/components/com_utchat/languages/admin.english.php');

second file to change is admin.utchat.php approx line 31

require('languages/admin.french.php');

Chane to

require('languages/admin.english.php');

Now when you administer the component and as long as you edited all the settings you should see English, you should also see the module who's online in English also.

OK, hope this does not mess up anything, I am like such a newbie, but I will keep updating this one topic as a step by step update.

[itchibahn]

This is the error with IE7:

Line: 240
Error: Object doesn't support this property or method
Code: 0
URL: http://www.mydomain.com/joomla/componen ... itemid,39/