PHPShop has released a free chat for the online store

    PHPShop made Chat - the new free Win chat application for the online store and website. Chat is a module for all PHPShop products, available in the "Modules" section for the external part of the site, as well as a separate Windows chat.exe application for the chat administrator.

    Why, you ask, your chat, when the market has a large selection of such applications?


    Indeed, today there are already SaaS services for connecting chats and online helpers for sites: Livetex, WebConsult, as well as large software systems that require separate resources of your server and installation skills: LiveZilla, Rustalk. Almost all of these offers have a commercial basis and offer their services for a fee. On the other hand, the whole history of your correspondence is stored on someone else’s SaaS project server.

    In order to help its users communicate with their customers for free , PHPShop has created its own free chat that stores all correspondence in the databases of the stores of the users themselves. The chat application is very light: the .exe component weighs about 900 kb, and the server part is 700 kb, and it is installed with a “one click”.

    Design


    There are 9 templates of different colors in the kit, however, you can create your own design through the template engine by editing the phpshop / modules / chat / templates / templates. CSS color gamut styles are located in phpshop / modules / chat / templates / skin /. To create a new style, just create a new * .css file in this folder.

    Nice additions


    Chat supports an unlimited number of users on the site, as well as inserting hyperlinks and emoticons, stores the entire history of your correspondence in a database, with the ability to search by history. When a new message arrives, the administrator will beep and a pop-up notification will appear. For slow, inexpensive hosting, in order not to overload the server, you can specify the appropriate time interval for polling the site by chat.

    How will PHPShop Chat develop?


    PHPShop Chat is updated through the update of the PHPShop EasyControl Utility Collection . In the near future, PHPShop plans to implement file transfer via the chat interface, invite users, and integrate chat tightly with its Stat statistics modules, VisualCart visual basket module. It is also planned to support several administrators with redirecting chat users between them.

    PHPShop Chat

    Technical details


    The server part is standardized for the format of PHPShop modules and implemented on the PHPShop Framework in the development environment of PHPShop IDE 1.1 . The inside is made in Delphi 7.0.

    PHPShop IDE

    Conclusion


    Those of our customers who have updated and actively use the chat functionality have already managed to evaluate its capabilities. PHPShop is actively developing, and not only in web-technologies - now, to help its users, more than 20 free utilities for Windows and more than 60 free add-on modules for websites and online stores are offered. We invite you to test PHPShop Chat and other useful options for the store.

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