phpFreeChat - Web2.0 AJAX chat server - Forum

yeah, i have some problems with joomla 1.5 and uchat so i try to join phpfreechat and joomla directly in template (i dont have patience to read the documentation of component development of joomla).

-so install freechat.
-edit your joomla template html puting this in the first line

  <?php
 
  require_once "src/phpfreechat.class.php"; // adjust to your own path
  $params["serverid"] = md5(__FILE__); // used to identify the chat
  // the full list of paramaters is on http://www.phpfreechat.net/parameters
  $chat = new phpFreeChat($params);
 
  ?>

place <?php $chat->printChat(); ?> where you want to show in your template. If you want to show in a especifc page you can use some kind of condition like

<?php
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == "index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19") // or other url, this work for SEF urls too.
{
$chat->printChat();
}
?>

Last edited by senna (2008-07-05 09:04:54)

Am using phpfree chat on my new website am designing but am failing to intergrate it with my joomla cms. 
I want the phpfree chat to be able to access my users/names in my joomla database along with their passwords so they can login with those.
Secondly i want a logged in user on my site (which is using joomla) to be able to enter the chat room without logging in again and able to get in with his user name.

here go to this link here http://jpfchat.com/ they have rewritten some of phpfreechat code to work with joomal,, joomla uses Mootools as the chat uses prototype which causes conflicts in joomla so  these guys were gracious enough to make a module componnent for this great chat software,, if you do use it please donate to them for thier time and effort