PHP-Nuke Chat Module Introduction
A chat room may be a good
idea to boost traffic and keep loyal members. Why? Because it makes the
PHP-Nuke website more interactive and shorten the distance between your
website visitors. With PHP-Nuke
chat module, websites get a live chat room with PHP-Nuke database seamlessly integrated, simple, secure and nice looking with full chat features. The
chat button is suggested to be inserted to the module section and block
section too. The key technology is the integration and auto-login
features. The following screenshots show you how it's going to look
like after the installation and integration is done.
Precondition
Before installing the PHP-Nuke chat module, please download 123 Flash Chat Server software from
http://www.123flashchat.com/download.html to get the lastest free demo version firstly.
(123 Flash Chat is a shareware, with 10 concurrent users free edition.)
123
Flash Chat server software is a feature rich and high performance Java
chat server with an amazing Flash chat client! It's a fast, easy and
affordable way to host live chat room. 123 Flash Chat server software
can integrate existing databases for forums or websites. It's fully
customizable for admins and end-users.
Online Demo
1) PHP-Nuke Integrated Demo
http://phpnuke.123flashchat.com/
2) General Demo of 123 Flash Chat Server Software
http://www.123flashchat.com/demo.html
You can select skin and language to test all the alternatives.
Download PHP-Nuke Chat Module
- Module (1): for PHP-Nuke and 123FlashChat on one phisical server:
http://www.123flashchat.com/download/phpnuke_
mod_for_123flashchat.zip
DIY Installation Tutorial
You host the chat and phpNuke, ie: chat and phpNuke are located on the same server,
please refer to: "phpnuke_install_mod.html".
Remark
PHP-Nuke
is a news automated system specially designed to be used in Intranets
and Internet. The Administrator has total control of his web site,
registered users, and he will have in the hand a powerful assembly of
tools to maintain an active and 100% interactive web site using
databases.
To be able to use PHP-Nuke you need a computer, an SQL
database server (highly tested on MySQL), Apache Web server and PHP
version 4.x installed and running. All these programs are available for
free in the Internet.
PHP-Nuke runs well on the following Operating Systems:
 | Linux |

| Any Unix flavor |

| OS/2 |

| Any Windows flavor |

| MacOS |

| FreeBSD |
The
system has been high tested on Linux systems, the other operating
system has been reported by users that works great. In the future BeOS
will be supported, this depends on the MySQL BeOS version to be
released soon.
There are many similar programs and projects
like Slash, PHPweblog, PHPSlash, Thatware, Sips, NewsPro, etc, but
PHP-Nuke is designed to be very customizable and flexible, is easy and
pleasant to use, thinking about webmasters who pass hours
administrating his web site.
PHP-Nuke also offers a very high number
of features not present on other systems and on each release we'll add
much more new and cool features.
PHP-Nuke distribution comes with English language set by default, but you can change it to your own language.