VisitorChat – The PHP Online Chat
The ClientEngage Visitor Chat is a fully-featured real-time chat for your websites. A clear and simple web-based administration allows you to conveniently
chat with your visitors. And best of all: Visitor Chat comes with a Windows-based client out-of-the-box. Without having to visit the Visitor Chat’s
admin-interface you will be notified from your Windows tray and can start chatting straight away!
Visitor Demo: http://visitorchat-demo.clientengage.com/contents/demo
Admin Demo: http://visitorchat-demo.clientengage.com/admin
By including one single snippet of JavaScript, this interactive and engaging Chat can be used on any website – whether you are using WordPress, Joomla! or
plain HTML.
Whilst chatting, your visitors can navigate through your website and after every page-load, the chat will go back to it’s previous state: they won’t lose any messages.
PHP Live Support Chat Functionality Overview
Fully-Featured PHP Online Chat Script for your Website
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Windows-based client included
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Adaptable Templates & Translations
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Easy Integration & Use
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Multilingual Interface
ClientEngage Visitor Chat was built with internationalisation in mind: currently, you can select from British and American English as well as German.
Live Support Chat – System Requirements
In order to be able to use ClientEngage Visitor Chat, you must fulfil the following system requirements:
- Apache 2 HTTP Server
- Preferably with mod_rewrite enabled
- PHP with a version of greater than PHP 5.2.8; not compatible with PHP > 7
- MySQL with a version of greater than MySQL 5 (i.e. with InnoDB support)
- Preferably a subdomain/domain for use with ClientEngage Visitor Chat
- Safe mode: off
- Enough server-resources for the number of concurrent chatters you expect
- jQuery: if your site does not use jQuery, VisitorChat will automatically include it. If your site does use jQuery, it is important that you use a version greater than 1.9.1
- Finally, the PHP PDO extensions have to be installed
System requirements of the Windows-based client
- .NET4 Framework (will be installed if not already available)
- Windows XP (SP3), Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8
How does the live support chat script “work”?
The chat employs AJAX technologies and regularly checks with the server for any new messages. When you are actively chatting, the interval is 2.5 seconds. However, once activity goes down, this interval slowly decreases to only every 10 seconds. If you are not signed-up in a chat, it will contact the sever only every 25 seconds to check if any administrators are online. So you see: VisitorChat automatically determines the right combination of user experience & server load.
A note on server performance
This chat system employs AJAX technologies and does not rely on WebSockets for its communication. This means that anyone can run Visitor Chat, as long as your server fulfils the requirements outlined below. However, this also means that this system is not intended for ultra-heavy-duty use: so don’t build the next Facebook and try to have 10m people use this at once. That being said, on average server-specifications, there is nothing stopping you from having several concurrent conversations.
A note on chat-styles
The chat looks beautiful across all modern platforms and browsers.
However, the chat-box may look “out of place” if you have CSS styles on your website that affect whole tags (such as “div {margin:50px;}” or “span {padding:50px;}”).
In such cases, you may have to edit the Chat-Style for that particular website to override your styles.
Changelog
01/03/2014: - Public release of ClientEngage Visitor Chat v1.2.2 - NEW: You can now create "Operator" users and give them access to specific areas only: - Past Discussions - Enquiries - Settings - NEW: You can now entirely hide the chat unless an operator is online - NEW: Ability to hide the email field on sign-up (a generic email address will be used instead) 22/06/2013: - Public release of ClientEngage Visitor Chat v1.1.9 - Now uses visitors' email & name as FROM in enquiry notification emails - Now includes senders' names in enquiry notification email subjects - Now correctly caches HTTPS & HTTP JavaScript codes separately - Framework upgrade - No need to re-install the Windows-client as it is unchanged 10/06/2013: - Public release of ClientEngage Visitor Chat v1.1.5 - NEW: password-reset function for administrators - Fixed the hyperlink-target to the respective enquiry in the email-notification - Fixed an error that occurred when setting longer timezones such as America/Kentucky/Monticello - Fixed placeholder-attributes in IE7 and IE8 - Updated the CakePHP framework - No need to re-install the Windows-client as it is unchanged 04/05/2013: - Public release of ClientEngage Visitor Chat v1.1.2 - Visitor/operator typing indicator - Added typing indicator in Windows client - Root page now redirects to login - Fixed text/hyperlink colour in Windows client - Fixed display issue when highlighting messages in Windows client - Some minor CSS improvements to override host-site styles - Front-end: added a CSS class to admin-messages (".vc_admin_message") - Implemented an auto-login function in the Windows client - Updated the CakePHP framework 22/04/2013: - Public release of ClientEngage Visitor Chat v1.0.1
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