AVChat Software Product Blog

Our new AVChat 3 Application for IP.Board 3 provides full integration with an IP.Board 3 Forum.

Forum Members will be able to:

• Login into the chat with their username and gender
• Access user profiles directly from the chat
• Link their profile image into the chat
• Share files with other members in chat rooms
• Watch YouTube movies into the chat rooms

Admins will be able to:

• Configure permissions foreach user group
• Kick/ Ban users
• Assign admin rights to other user groups and configure admin permissions.

Other features:

• The application can be installed as any other IP.Board 3 Application.
• The Main Menu link is automatically generated.

The price for the AVChat3 Application for IP.Board 3 is $49 and it’s available when you buy AVChat3.

To buy it go to the purchase page and select one of the  AVChat 3 licenses + the IP.Board 3 Application.

For more details, please visit the AVChat3 Application for IP.Board 3 page.

Just like the title says, we now provide a native AVChat 3 Plugin for WordPress that handles the integration between the user management system in WordPress and AVChat 3.

Some of the Features:

• automatic username recoginition (AVChat 3 will automatically recognize the usernames of users logged in the WordPress web site )
• allows different permissions and settings for each user role directly from admin area
• it installs as any other WordPress plugin
• is compatible with SEO friendly URL’s in WordPress
• administrators can configure basic AVChat 3 settings (like the rtmp connectionstring) directly from the admin area

The price for the AVChat 3 Video Chat Plugin for WordPress is $49 and it’s available when you buy AVChat 3.

To buy it go to the purchase page and select one of the  AVChat 3 licenses + the WordPress plugin.

Visit the AVChat 3 Video Chat Plugin for WordPress page for more details and screenshots.

PS: We are also working on some other features for this plugin like a Who’s chatting module that will allow you to show on your WordPress website who is actively logged in the video chat. If you have other great ideas drop us a line at contact@avchat.net.

Based on our customers suggestions we decided to improve the Drupal 6 Module for AVChat 3 . We reorganized it, we changed the way it works, and most important we added some cool new features:

• User profiles can now be accessed directly from the chat.
• The users list now shows the profile pictures (works only if “User Settings->Picture Support” is enabled from Administer)
• Settings for each user role. If one user is assigned to more user roles, then the module will take the best value (Example: A user is assigned to two roles: authenticated and gold member. Free Video Time for “authenticated” role is 1 hour and for “gold members” role is 2 hours. The module will allow the user to have 2 hours of Free Video Time)
• The possibility to choose in “Administer” between two modes of displaying the chat: Popup Window or Embedded in a web site page.
• New permissions added for users who have access to “Flash Video Chat Admin Area”.
• Clean Url friendly

What’s changed:

• Less cookies (no more than 3)
• It can be installed in /modules/ folder directly (it can still be installed in /sites/all/modules/)
• No more paths incompatibility: the paths to the swfs are now relative to $base_url
• Updated permissions page

All these goodies are available in the Drupal 6 Module from our latest build (603).

To get the new Drupal 6 module download it again from your client download page. The link should be in your delivery email.

As we promised, the  AVChat 3 video chat module for phpFox 2 is ready. Besides compatibility with phpFox 2, this module is more powerful, easier to install and easier to use than the one we had for 1.6 .

Features in the phpFox 2 module:

• automatic user name, gender and profile picture integration
• independent permissions control for each user group (in admin control panel)
• user profiles integration
• automatic integration with the user and admin menus
• it installs as any other phpFox 2 module
• compatible with SEO friendly URL’s in phpFox

The price for the video chat module for phpFox 2 is $49 (includes the video chat module for phpFox 1.6 too) and its available when you buy AVChat 3.

To buy the AVChat 3 Video Chat Module for your phpFox 2 website go to the purchase page and select a AVChat 3 license + the phpFox module.

For more details and screenshots visit the AVChat 3 Video Chat Module for phpFox 2.0 page.

We are pleased  to announce that we have finished work on 2 new integration kits for AVChat 3:

AVChat 3 Product  for vBulletin:

• automatic username and avatar picture detection
• administrators can edit access to video chat features and limitations for each usergroup
• administrators can enable/disable features from the AVChat 3 Admin Area for moderators and super moderators (kick, ban, etc…)
• fully allow/disallow access to the video chat for any usergroup
• profile links integration
• installs as any other vBulletin product/plugin

You can find more info about the AVChat 3 Product for vBulletin here. Currently only vBulletin 3.8 is supported but we are working on making it compatible with 4.0 . If you’re using older versions like 3.6 let us know.

AVChat 3 Module for Jamroom:

• automatic username and avatar picture detection
• different features and permissions for different quota (Guests, Members, Artists, etc…)
• profile links integration
• Jamroom administrators have access to the AVChat 3 admin area from where they can kick, ban, etc… .
• installs as any other Jamroom module

You can find more info about the AVChat 3 Module for Jamroom here.

Our AVChat 3 Joomla Component is now compatible with JomSocial. JomSocial is a component that transforms your Joomla website into a social network!

When installed on top of JomSocial the AVChat 3  Joomla Component:

• will use the profile pictures from the JomSocial profiles in the video chat’s users list
• will link the users inside the video chat to their JomSocial profile pages
• will login people in the video chat using the user names they have on the website

As a Joomla admin you also have access to the video chat’s admin area from where you can ban and kick users, log in as hidden, delete existing rooms, peak into private discussions, manage banned users, view users IP’s etc… .

Read more about our AVChat 3 Video Chat Component for Joomla here.

30 days trial:

If you have a JomSocial website you can try our video chat component for free for 30 days, just drop us an email with the website on which you will test it. Don’t forget to mention you need the AVChat 3 Joomla Component.

Get it now for your JomSocial website:

The AVChat 3 Joomla Component (which handles the integration with JomSocial) can be purchased for $49 when you purchase the standalone version of AVChat 3!

Looking for feedback:

We are eagerly looking for feedback on how to better integrate our video chat software with JomSocial . While we have studied JomSocial and developed the integration kit to the best of our abilities, you guys live with JomSocial every day and are a better judge of what this integration should do next! So If you have any feature/integration idea, drop us a line.