DrupalChat 7.x-1.0-beta0

DrupalChat provides one on one chat. It provides a static sleek chat bar at the bottom of the web browser. There is a selectable list of Online Users like in Facebook chat. Once you choose a particular user to chat with, it creates a new tab in the chat bar along with an attached pop-up chat window. You can try it out live here.Features * Supports smileys (detects them automatically in chat messages) * Chat history is retained in between page loads * Provides option to use Normal AJAX or long polling technique to update chat messages. * Provides optional integration with User Relationships module.The main focus of this module is to provide a chat module which completely integrates itself with Drupal without installation of any additional software or package on the web server. It utilizes the resources of the same server on which the Drupal site is hosted and uses AJAX for updating chat messages. So it isn't highly scalable but still it works well. If you are looking for a high performance based chat module, try Dxmpp module.Update: Now long polling technique can also be used to update chat messages instead of normal AJAX.Browser CompatibilityInternet Explorer (7,8), Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome.Dependencies * jQuery Update - you will need to install the 6.x-2.0 alpha branch of this module. * User Relationships (optional) - if you want to integrate DrupalChat with this module.Ongoing DevelopmentThe module is under active development. Although the initial aim was to provide a chat solution which doesn't require any server side modification, since this has been achieved, now the focus is on to provide multiple backends. New backends which will be developed and added to the module will require server side installation but they will be highly scalable. Right now the backend which is being developed will provide optional integration with ape(ajax push engine).The latest development version of this module has a huge update on all aspects of DrupalChat. It is not stable and there are known bugs still to be attended to. Please only use this version to see the progress of our work.SponsorshipIf you would like to sponsor development or enhancement to this module, please contact me.

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Platforms:	PHP
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