Chat Factory is the special Joomla 1.5 extension which allows site users to chat.
The main front-end features of Chat Factory are: - users can enable/disable the chat system
- no need to register: users can chat as guests (if enabled by administrator)
- show/hide offline users from users list (only for registered users)
- registered users can block chat messages from guests
- user avatars: users can upload their own avatar, use Community's Builder avatar (if enabled), or use no avatar at all (only for registered users)
- ignore list: block messages from individual users (only for registered users)
- friends list (only for registered users)
- possibility to share a message (only for registered users)
- possibility to change status: available, busy, invisible (only for registered users)
- implemented emoticons, buzz
- minimize chat windows and preserve position when navigating through the site (only for registered users)
- quick search (only for registered users)
- advertisement area
|  |
On the back-end the chat extension for Joomla has the following main features:
- emoticons management: administrators can add as many emoticons as they want
- advertisements management
- IM ads: on login or on specific interval
- allowed groups: select the groups that are allowed to chat
- Community Builder integration (enable/disable)
- set refresh interval of user list, new messages and new friendship requests to reduce server load
- spam protection: set the maximum number of messages users can send per minute.
Requirements:
Demo-Server:
