Re: Hi & a quick question :-) Joomla! chat modules

Hi Jared

Yes, there are a number of Chat extensions available for Joomla!

As we do not have any chat-enabled sites, I would suggest that you choose one of the more popular / well rated / editors pick of the chat extensions.

On that basis, my shortlist would be as follows;

AJAX Shoutbox 54 votes - 36 reviews This Joomla module adds live chat functionality to your Joomla site. Your visitors can chat with each other right in your website without refreshing their browsers. It's almost like chatting on an instant messenging network! And it's all powered by AJAX, a hot new old technology that powers things like Gmail, Google Maps and other brilliant web apps. Now you can get a piece of all this in your own site. For problems with installing please contact me instead of using the review function. component module language Category: Shoutbox  |  GNU GPL  |  http://risperdal.student.utwente.nl/joomla/  |  Updated 37 days ago Views: 53,131

Joomla-SMF Forum Component (Simple Machines Forum) 58 votes - 30 reviews The JoomlaHacks Joomla-SMF Forum(JSMF) Bridge is intended to be used with Joomla Content Management System(J!) and Simple Machines Forum(SMF). The bridge integrates these two pieces of software allowing one login, registration, and user modification point for both systems. The JoomlaHacks bridge goes one step further and adds full integration with Community Builder (CB) using a CB plugin and allows the use of a wide array of logins. In addition, this bridge allows a choice of Personal Message Systems to be used with the integration. The Joom ... component module plugin language Category: Forum  |  GNU GPL  |  http://www.joomlahacks.com/  |  Updated 131 days ago Views: 48,051

BlastChat - free chat for your website 94 votes - 27 reviews Things to consider before you select chat application or shoutbox for your website: 1. If your website is on shared server, this server will most probably have problems handling chat traffic because of limited hardware resources (on top of it see 3.). 2. If your website is on dedicated server but has limited memory and/or has only standard apache/mysql installation, it might have problems handling traffic (on top of it see 3.). 3. If server is not properly configured, high traffic can bring server to halt/crash (usual case for basic apach ... component module language Category: Chat  |  Creative Commons  |  http://www.blastchat.com  |  Updated 24 days ago Views: 40,232

Trust that helps.

Sean

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On 14/05/07, Melanie Grant <mel@joomla.org.za> wrote:

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From: Camberg, J. (Jared) < CambergJ@nedbank.co.za>
Date: May 14, 2007 12:22 PM
Subject: Hi & a quick question :-)
To: mel@joomla.org.za

Hi Melanie

 

How you doing? How was the training in JHB?

 

I have a quick question, when u get a chance. What are the suggested chat modules for joomla (free or paid 4)? Is it possible to run a chat off your server running joomla?

 

Great …

 

Cheers

Jared

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