Chat for Elefant

This is a simple member chat app for the Elefant CMS, powered by the Pusher realtime messaging service., _(*1)

To install, drop the app into your Elefant apps folder and edit the file apps/chat/conf/config.php. Enter your APP ID, API Key and API Secret values from Pusher. You can now access the default chat at the URL /chat on your website. Please note that chats are members-only, so if you're not logged in you will be taken to the member login screen first., _(*2)

Embedding the chat box

Chats can be embedded into any page via the Dynamic Objects menu in the WYSIWYG editor, or into any application via the following code:, _(*3)

run ('chat/index', array ('channel' => 'channel-name'));

?>

Or in a view template:, _(*4)

{! chat/index?channel=channel-name !}

If no channel is specified, the channel name will be default. Channels can be used in your apps to create separate chat rooms for different groups of users., _(*5)

Styling the chat box

The chat box can easily be styled through CSS, and some very basic CSS is included in /apps/chat/css/default.css. For reference, here is what the HTML of the chat box looks like:, _(*6)




    
        
            
                Johnny:
                Hello, world!
            
            
                World:
                Hi Johnny!