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:
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