Chatblock

Update: The newest version of this module appears to have a lot of the bugs ironed out. Most of the changes are cosmetic, but if you had previously installed this module, be sure to run the update script as one column in the chatblock table has been altered slightly.

This module is yet another chat module. It allows you to include an easy to install, Ajax updated, chat block with your site. There are a few customizations that are possible with the chat module, and it includes some simple smileys. Also, the module is fully functional (albeit not incredible) without Javascript enabled.

This is a new release of this module, and although it works on my server, it may have issues on yours. It creates its own table in your database, and should remove this table when you uninstall it. Also, the Ajax functionality should work for any browser that jQuery works for, and should degrade fairly gracefully.

Current features that my module has are:

1. Displayed as a block.
2. Updates via Ajax but degrades gracefully if Javascript is not present.
3. Admin can choose whether or not they see this block.
4. Includes a chat log page (which has a pagered view of all of the messages for the chat) which permissions to view can be configured.
5. Includes 2 levels of additional permissions, 'View chats' and 'Join chats'. Users who have the first can only see the chats going on, users who have both permissions can see and respond in the chat interface.
6. Smiley/URL replacement support is included, with a help page to show what text leads to what image/link.

Releases

Development snapshots	Date	Size	Links	Status
5.x-1.0.x-dev	2007-Nov-21	20.14 KB	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot