GroChat is a light weight web based chat software coded with PHP which doesn't need a database to work. It was developed to offer a light weight solution to people who want to install a web based chat software without having to install / customize a dat
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** Version History ** 0.4: Animated menus. Oriental languages support (UTF-8) Korean and Thai translations. 0.31: Support multiples channels Support manual logout Implemented a "noop" system to renew connected users' session Even if they are inactive on the chat Italian and Portuguese translations. 0.3: New CSS 2.0 layout (no more frames). Better refresh code. Improved translation system (users' actions are now translated with the language of the client, not the one of the user who sended the message) 0.2: Client/server communication now coded with AJAX. 0.1: File upload support. 0.05: Multilanguage support. Skin support. Smoother refresh. 0.02: Added session management. 0.01: First release.
****************************************************************************** * GroChat v0.3 - http://grochat.sourceforge.net ****************************************************************************** ** What is GroChat ? ** GroChat is a web based chat software coded with PHP which doesn't need a database to work. It was developped to offer a light weight solution to people who want to install a webchat based software on their website without having to install / customize a database for that. For that, GroChat make a massive use of text files to manage the content of the chat. It supports private/public messaging, file send and receive, announce system and smileys. An option permites to show or hide message time. ** How to install it ? ** Just unpack the content of the archive in the destination directory on your webserver. Then double check the file permissions on the chat.txt and chatHistory.txt files (webserver must have write permission). You will be able to connect to your chat with the correct URL, depending on where your unpacked the archive. eg: http://www.tatouage.fr/grochat/ You can configure your chat by editing the properties at the beginning of the config.php file, here is the detail of the properties : CHAT_FILE: The name of the file used to store the public content of the chat. If it doesn't exist, we will try to create it. Check perms on this file for troubleshooting. CHAT_HISTORY: The same, but for the whole history of what was typed on the chat (username, message content and date). CHAT_SIZE: The number of line sended on clients screen (client history). SESSION_DURATION: The time, in minutes, between a specific user's last message and his automatic deconnection (timeout). DATETIME_FORMAT: The format of the date/time properties when displayed on screen, the default is G:i:s (which means HH:MM:SS in PHP format). Use the PHP date() function format. MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE: The max length of each file uploaded by the users on the server (in bytes). MAX_UPLOAD_POOL: The max length of the whole files uploaded by the users on the server (in bytes). ** Requirement ** Server side : a web server with PHP4 support. Client side : a wen nrowser (tested on IE6, Mozilla 5.0 and Firefox 1.0). ** Licence ** This program is licensed under the GNU/GPL - http://www.gnu.org ** Credits ** Simon OUALID (symon@tatouage.fr) ** Spectial thanks to ** Anonymous smileys artists ! Mar1 for spanish translation, and undertug4 for portuguese translation ! ** Version History ** TODO: Store users' IP history. Administration interface (add smileys, and so on). 0.31: support multiples channels support manual logout "noop" system to renew connected users' session 0.3: new CSS 2.0 layout (no more frames). better refresh code. 0.2: Client/server communication now coded with AJAX. 0.1: File upload support. 0.05: Multilanguage support. Skin support. Smoothed refresh. 0.02: Added session management. 0.01: First release. ******************************************************************************
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