AVChat Software Product Blog

As you probably know, Joomla! 1.7 was released last week. The second day we tested our Joomla! 1.6 Integration Kit and it worked like a charm with Joomla! 1.7 .

The only problem we found was that JomSocial 2.2 and Community Builder 1.4 are not yet compatible with Joomla! 1.7.

So if you want to use AVChat 3 with Joomla! 1.7 you can use the AVChat 3 Integration Kit for Joomla! 1.6, but without the support for JomSocial and Community Builder.

We will announce here and on our forum (dedicated topic for Joomla! 1.7 Development) when news are coming on the way.

One week from the official integration kit for Joomla! 1.6 release we’re pushing the first official update that includes some awesome new features and a few bug fixes.

There’s a whole new revamped Who’s Online Module, new permissions for user groups and full control over how AVChat opens (in a pop up or embedded).

New, revamped Who’s Chatting Module for Joomla! 1.6:

• Quick info about rooms and users
• Detailed user info: indicators that users have their cam and mic turned on and indicator if a user’s stream is private
• Detailed room info: We added a  rooms list in the module and next to each room you will find how many users are logged into that room. But , the coolest feature is that clicking a room takes you directly into it. Private rooms have indicators and they can be clicked only by admins or moderators.

Here’s how it looks now:

Impressive isn’t it?

New features for the AVChat Component for Joomla! 1.6 :

• Controll weather AVChat will open in a pop up or embedded in a page on your web site:
• Control over the Upgrade button in AVChat directly from the Joomla! admin area (you can specify an upgrade link)
• Control in what rooms users will be dropped directly from the Joomla! admin area (by specifying the room id)
• 2 new permissions for each User Group:
  • Allow users to browse the rooms list (if denied, users will not be able to click rooms in Who’s chatting module also)
  • Allow admins/moderators to login as hidden.

New features for the AVChat Component for Joomla! 1.5 :

• auto detect if the AVChat client files have been installed properly and show proper error (instead of a huge black empty box).

Bug fixes:

• JomSocial gender detection dropped for the moment because the gender is stored in various string formats across websites and might cause conflicts with your websites.
• Fixed online users list height (usefull for websites with a large number of logged in chat users)
• Fixed profile image paths

Pricing and purchase:

If you currently own a license for AVChat 3 and the  Joomla! 1.0 , 1.5 and 1.6 integration kits, you will automatically have access to the new Joomla! 1.6 integration kit update (just download the Joomla! archive again from your client/trial area).

If you are planning to purchase it, the price will be the same as for all other integrations: $49 and it will come together with the Joomla 1.0 and 1.5 integration kits.

Give us feedback:

We love feedback so if you want a feature that is not included yet in the component/modules, you can suggest it in the Joomla! 1.6 forum topic or email it to contact@avchathq.com.

Update packages will keep on coming .

The new Joomla! 1.6 is out since January and most of our clients asked us if AVChat 3 will be compatible with it. After a couple of months we can say it is .

Introducing the new AVChat Integration Kit for Joomla! 1.6 .

The integration kit for Joomla! 1.6 contains:

1) AVChat Video Chat Component

• Long awaited General AVChat Settings in Administrator area, like: connection string (no more file edits to insert the RTMP connection string), invite link, register page url, login page url, disconnect button link, etc…
  
• Native permissions integration with the new ACL system introduced by Joomla! 1.6
  
• Any user group can be given access to the admin area of AVChat
• Continued compatbility with JomSocial and CommunityBuilder

2) Improoved Who’s Chatting Module

3) New Who’s Online Module for the Administration area

We have a special Module for the Administration area of Joomla! 1.6 that shows in the header the number of users logged in at that time in the video chat. Here it is:

Pricing and purchase

If you currently own a license for AVChat 3 and the  Joomla! 1.0 and 1.5 integration kits, you will automatically have access to the new Joomla! 1.6 integration kit (just download the Joomla! archive again from your client/trial area).

If you are planning to purchase it, the price will be the same as for all other integrations: $49 and it will come together with the Joomla 1.0 and 1.5 integration kits.

Give us feedback

We love feedback so if you want a feature that is not included yet in the component/modules, you can suggest it in the Joomla! 1.6 forum topic or email it to contact@avchathq.com.

This is the first version of the integration kit for Joomla! 1.6 and there’s a lot of room for improovement. We’d love to hear what you think.

There are two ways to open the AVChat Video Chat Component in a pop up in Joomla!:

1. Using Joomla!’s default method:
   • Log in the administrator area of Joomla!.
   • In the Menus area edit the link to AVChat 3.
   • Set the On Click, Open in option to  New Window without Browser Navigation (screenshot below)
   • Click Save.

   

   That’s it! Clicking the link in the menu will now open the video chat in a pop up. Using this method however you will not have control over the pop up dimensions

2. A way that allows you to control the size of the pop up:
   • For this you’ll need to login to your website with an FTP client (FileZilla is our favourite) and go to /components/com_avchat3/
   • Open avchat3.php for editing.
   • Replace the object & embed html tags (everything from <object… to </object>) with this html code:
     <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="window.open('/components/com_avchat3/index.swf', 'AVChat', 'menubar=0, resizable =0, width=900, height=650');">Launch AVChat Video Chat</a>

   • Save the file and make sure you upload it back to the web server.

   You can change the size of the pop up by editing the width and height properties in the code above.