Overview

...for Joomla Powered Websites Only

Before we get down to the business how to part, let us first get you familiar with the live chat component that will accomplish the above task.

Chat Factory is a powerful Ajax based live chat extension for Joomla (1.5 and 1.6) that will integrate Facebook & Gmail like chat into Joomla Websites. Think of it like having an instant messenger only for your website.

Partial features list: Online and Offline messages Message History Avatar management Community Builder integration Chat application is available on every page of your website without having to enable a special module Changeable User status Possibility of staying invisible allowing users to chat REGARDLESS of the page they are on. Friends list and Blocked users list Guests can Chat with registered users (option to set it off) Community Builder Integration Possibility of running advertisements in the Chat window and through advertisement messages users can enable/disable the chat system and many more ...

Here Is How Chat Factory Will Help You:

After you install Chat Factory on your website, here are the ways you can put it to use:

1. Increase Your Sales using it As a Live Help Support Tool. A website without live support is like an empty brick and motor store (with no one to guide you. With Chat Factory, you can interact with your website visitors through a real time chat communication providing a higher level customer and sales support. Doing this not only improves upfront sales and customer satisfaction but also increases referral rate and improves brand image (thus affecting the overall bottom line of your business).
2. With the above said, think about this “How much is such a software worth to my business?” I’m sure you will discover that overtime, it’s worth 50 to 100 times more than what you are invest to grab the software.

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   Like most other Joomla extensions, installing and configuring Chat Factory is very simple and in most cases the whole process takes less than 10mins to setup.
   
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Description

• 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:

• Joomla 1.5.x

Version Info

Chat Factory 1.2.4 released on April 8, 2011.  

• New feature: after closing the main chat window redirection to same page instead to home page.
• Fixed issues regarding display under IE9 and Opera, chat history container (bottom line), Community Builder (not using thumb avatar), CB back-end integration, case sensitive when including one JavaScript file.

Chat Factory 1.2.3 released on December 6, 2010. 

• New feature: Chat Factory user plugin; option to delete Chat Factory profiles when deleting users from Joomla.
• Fixed issues regarding Chat Factory and Love Factory integration (users added to ignore list in Love Factory), user profile deleted after logout.

Chat Factory 1.2.2 released on November 19, 2010.

• Fixed issues regarding some cases where the window position was not being restored, renamed a css class that could interfere with other templates, on uploading avatar and not having "Public Front-end" in the "Allowed groups".
  

Chat Factory 1.2.1 released on September 27, 2010.

• New feature: added class suffix for module.

Chat Factory 1.2.0 released on August 27, 2010.

• New feature: Love Factory advanced integration allowing users to chat only if they purchased a Love Factory membership with chat rights (requirements: minimum Love Factory 1.5.0 and Chat Factory 1.2.0).

Chat Factory 1.1.0 released on June 10, 2010.

• New feature: enable/disable chat for registered users and guests.
• New feature: message history.
• Added images to the module.
• Added confirmations on several actions like add or delete friends.
• Optimisation: own jQuery library for no interference with other components.
• Fixed several issues regarding stripping HTML tags on ads, upload avatar, display avatar on userlist, advertisements, visibility of blocked users, session cookie.
  

Chat Factory 1.0.0 released on May 18, 2010.

Screenshots

Screenshots are representing version 1.0.0 of Chat Factory.

Reviews

Customer Reviews:

Erik Folberth  (Tuesday, 18 May 2010)
Rating:
Online chat can refer to any kind of communication over the Internet, but is primarily meant to refer to direct one-on-one chat or text-based group
chat (formally also known as synchronous conferencing), using tools such as instant messengers, Internet Relay Chat, talkers and possibly MUDs. The
expression online chat comes from the word chat which means "informal conversation".