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FlashChat
includes a set of advanced administrative options so
that you can easily manage rooms, users, bans, messages,
and much more.
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The room list
and message input area can be re-positioned to different
parts of the screen by simply dragging and droppinig.
These layout positions can also be set by default in the
external layout file.
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A PHP-based "bad
words filter" allows you, the chat administrator, to
prevent foul language from being viewed within the chat.
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FlashChat's text
options can also be externally configured in the
config.php file. You can add additional font sizes,
specify the default font sizes for the interface text,
set the default language, and much more!
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Nearly every
color in FlashChat can be modified within the PHP
configuration files (using the HEX color code). You can
also set custom JPG or SWF background images easily by
editing the appropriate theme file, located in the
/inc/themes/ folder).
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FlashChat has
the ability to use small, graphic avatars for any user.
You may also set special avatars for administrators, or
to distinguish male vs. female users. The background
image can be customized for any user as well.
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AIML, the
Artificial Intelligence Markup Language, has been
integrated with FlashChat. This feature allows your
chatters to interact with a true artificial intelligence
entity, making your chat seem "alive" even during
periods of down-time.
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With over 50
configuration options available in the FlashChat
config.php file, you can make the chat behave in any of
dozens of ways. Set IP limits, log limits, flood
intervals, inactivity limits, and much more! You will
find that FlashChat is one of the most highly
configurable chat systems on the Net.
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Nearly every
piece of text in the FlashChat interface can be
customized using external language files. Each language
supported by FlashChat comes with a separate UTF-8
language file, which can be easily edited using any
standard text editor.
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An advanced
installation wizard makes installing FlashChat a snap.
As long as you know how to use FTP, and have a MySQL
database in place on your server, you can install
FlashChat. You should be understand how to set file and
folder permissions (chmod).
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FlashChat
integrates with a wide variety of content-management
systems, including popular bulletin boards and web
builders, like phpBB, Mambo, vBulletin, Xoops, Invision
Power Board, GeekLog, CPG-Nuke, AEDating, AZDG Dating,
UBB.Threads, WowBB, Simple Machines, e107, WotLab BB,
PHP Fusion, LunaByte, MD-Pro, PHP-Nuke, POST-Nuke,
WowBB, XMB Forum, and more! New integrations are
constantly being added, and are distributed for free.
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As long as you
have access to MySQL on your web server, you should be
able to install FlashChat without a hitch. You'll need
your MySQL database login information, as shown here
(this is from the installation wizard).
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You can
integrate FlashChat directly into your website template.
(requires basic knowledge of HTML and PHP). Along with
the many display customizations that can be made with
FlashChat, your system will appear seemlessly integrated
with your website's design. There is a sample.php file
with the FlashChat download which illustrates how this
is done.
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FlashChat
supports over 20 languages, including Eastern languages
like Japanese and Chinese. Additional languages can be
quickly and easily added by creating the appropriate PHP
file, and then adding the reference to the config.php
file. Any language can be disabled, modified, or set as
the default for the chat.
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The interface
layout can be customized through a powerful PHP layout
configuration file. Hide or re-arrange almost every part
of the FlashChat interface.
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FlashChat's
advanced admin panel allows you to view messages within
any room from any time period (provided that they have
not been purged from the database). Advanced search
options ensure that you, the FlashChat administrator,
will have quick access to any message that you might be
looking for.
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Starting with
FlashChat 4.0, external SWFs can be loaded into the
FlashChat interface, and communicate bi-directionally
with the chat via an ActionScript 2.0 API. This permits
advanced add-ons to be built, extending FlashChat's
abilities without modifying the core SWF.
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Users and
administrator can ignore other users, share files,
engage in private chats, and view user profiles (if
available). Administrator can ban and unban users, and
have at their disposal a variety of text-only commands
like /broadcast and /alert.
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The FlashChat
smilie set is one of the largest of any chat system.
FlashChat takes it a step further, however, by allowing
the chat administrator to change the code for any
smilie, disable any smilie, and re-order the smilies
easily by just re-ordering the corresponding PHP lines
in the config.php file.
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All of
FlashChat's sounds are externally configurable via MP3
files. Any sound can be muted by default.
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As with most
scripts on TUFaT.com, FlashChat includes 100% of the
Flash 2004 Pro. source code, including the Flash project
file and all ActionScript 2.0 classes. If there's
something that you can't do with the PHP configuration
options, you're sure to be able to do it by directly
editing the Flash code!
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Any text or
language setting can be changed by users "on the fly".
Their choices are remembered by FlashChat using local
shared object. The vectorized FlashChat interface
adjusts automatically to accomodate increases or
decreases in text size.
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Any sound option
can be muted and tested. Options also exist for
right/left speaker balance ("pan") and for overall
volume. As you would expect, all of these options are
fully externally configurable by the chat administrator
as well.
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Every theme
color scheme can be fully modified by users, with their
settings saved by the Flash player as local shared
objects. FlashChat comes with multiple custom-designed
skins, including Macintosh Aqua, Windows XP, and
Gradient Skin.
