Drupal Integration

[grugnog]

Hi All,

I have written a Drupal (http://drupal.org) module that integrates phpfreechat with this popular (and excellent!) CMS.

The project is at: http://drupal.org/node/62389

Here are the current features:
* Fully integrated with Drupal
* Any content type can be chat enabled
* Chat can be enabled/disabled on a per-node basis
* Chat channels:
o Each node can be it's own chat channel (the default)
o The whole site can have a single channel (so users can chat in a single 'space' whatever page they are on)
o Channels can be set on a content-type level, so - for example - all users looking at blogs can participate in a single chat
o Channels can be overriden at the node level, so the admin can group several nodes into a single chat space by giving them the same channel name
* Chat titles can be derived from the node title, set globally, or at the content-type or node level
* Control over every phpFreeChat configuration parameter
* Nicks can be auto set and/or frozen (to prevent impersonation)
* Speed (an important issue for a refresh based chat script)
o Passes control to a separate script to handle AJAX refresh requests. This avoids the overhead of the Drupal bootstrap process.
o The AJAX refresh process involves no database access whatsoever. All chat data is stored either on the file system, or directly in RAM.
* Theming
o Clean XHTML output which is easily styled using css stylesheets
o phpFreeChat is easily themable, using an almost identical system to phptemplate

Starting in a week or two I want to start upgrading this module to Drupal 4.7 and also add support for the new 1.0 features, such as moderation (the current version uses 0.9.7). Ideally this module would release simultaniously(-ish) with the 1.0 release.

If anyone would like to help out with this project either with code, testing or user support please contact me:
http://drupal.org/user/19668/contact

Thanks!
- Grugnog

[phpfreechat]

Thank you for this great contribution!

[grugnog]

I finally found a few days to work on upgrading this module to Drupal 4.7, and have made several improvements along the way - however this is still BETA, so I wouldn't recommend trying it on a production site (yet!).

If you have time it would be great if you could help testing this out, so we can work out any major bugs before I tag it as a 4.7 release. The download is: http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/ ... cvs.tar.gz

Please add any bugs or support requests to the issue queue at: http://drupal.org/project/phpfreechat
If you have time to work on bug-fixes or feature patches that would be great - please post them to the issues queue! It would be great have a super stable release this around the same time as phpFreeChat 1.0!

New in this module:
* Cleaner settings page
* Who-is-online/latest-chats blocks
* Better help text
* Improved channel configuration and access control
* Support to phpFreeChat 1 beta4 multiple channels in the same chat
* Support to phpFreeChat 1 beta4 moderation (/kick, /ban)

[grugnog]

Just a quick note that this module has been upgraded to Drupal 5. Both the 4.7 and 5 versions currently only work with the SVN trunk version of phpFreeChat, but will work with beta 9 once that is released.

The project and downloads are available at: http://drupal.org/project/phpfreechat

Feedback is very welcome!