Chatroom module

This module enables chat rooms to be set up on Drupal sites. No additional software is required. Chat Room uses AJAX to update chats without page reloads. Chatrooms and chats are nodes, providing easy access with many other modules, such as Views, CCK and Organic Groups. The module features chat in pop-up windows, invitations and private chats.

Chatroom is aimed primarily at tight integration with Drupal, not at being a highly scalable IRC or XMPP style solution.

Chat invites

The "Manage this chat" fieldset contains an "Invite a user to this chat" widget. Use this to invite users to a chat.

Chatroom APIs

hooks

Chatrooms and chats - what's the difference?

In case the terminology is not clear, chatrooms are intended to be containers for chats.

Configuration

Input format

Installation

Drupal 7

Private chats

Chats can be made private, such that only users explicitly invited to a chat will be able to participate.

Rapid deploy of chatroom 7.x-2.x on mac os X.

Between nodejs and chatroom it took me 3hrs to figure out how to get this running on a mac. So here is my quick and dirty guide to a rapid