With the Holidays quickly approaching,we, here at AVChat Software, have decided to bring you a specialHoliday gift with the December build: the long awaited support for mobile devices. The HTML 5 client of AVChat has been our main focus during the last few months. Here’s an overview of the client’s requirements and its features: Requirements: Media server: As of now the HTML 5 client works only with FMS. Red5 and Wowza support are in development. Web Server: A PHP based web server hosting the chat. Socket support must be enabled. You can use phpinfo(); to check if sockets are enabled. Features: Login screen with username and gender selection (pulls data from genders.xml) Room list from where a user can select any public room to[…]
Month: December 2012
Hello everyone, We are very proud to announce that AVChat is now compatible with HTML5 and you can now use the AVChat with iPad and iPhone. And because WordPress is the most used with this kind of devices, we just finished our first integration with the new video chat and we are releasing it for everybody to enjoy. In this new build, we also introduced some new enhancements, like: Never miss a new message from now. New browser tab notification lets you see how many new messages you received if you are in another browser tab. Added support for Administrators. Detect if the browser is mobile or desktop and if you installed the AVChat files into the plugin directory. Facebook[…]
With our latest build of WordPress plugin, we added the possibility for the visitors to login with a Facebook account. In order to do that, you have to follow the following steps: Go and sign up for a Facebook API Key at: http://developers.facebook.com Create new Facebook app. Facebook will automatically generate an App ID/API Key that will look similar to this this‘41365952003784’ Be sure to complete the filed from “Website with Facebook login” under “Select how your website integrate with Facebook” Go to WordPress backend => Settings => AVChat3 Under General Settings you will find the Facebook application ID field. Put there the App ID from above. Click Update Options Now all your visitors can enter the chat with their Facebook[…]
Ever wondered what users would appreciate on a SocialEngine website? Besides the obvious features found on SocialEngine PHP, the next best thing that we found after we’ve made a survey is that almost all of them would certainly appreciate a video chat application on a site they’re registered. And after installing our video chat plugin for their websites, owners said that users got more engaged and spent a lot more time on their site. Owners also said that at first, the users didn’t know about the extension and didn’t interact to much. So they had to make them aware of the full benefits of the video chat. here’s how they did it: Some of them hosted talk shows using the[…]