Olark Chat (Unofficial)

Complete free solution to chat as admin with the visitors of your site. Your visitors will be love it. No long time support questions over a contact form or a mail. Direct feedback and an absolute highlight: you can see from where the visitor come and on which of your pages he is going. This module uses the scalable chat box service from www.olark.com. Install Don’t register on the demo site. Register on www.olark.com to get an olark id for your site. Download this module and install it on your joomla site. Click the link in the finish message of the install process to copy 3 necessary files or use “/modules/mod_olark_chat/install.php” after install to complete the install process. Go to the module admin form in the joomla administration area and define your olark id there. (Make now no other changes to firstly see box is working for you.) Now the chat box will be visible on your site but unavailable. Now you need a jabber client. (I use www.pidgin.im) Connect it to the olark jabber server and a visitor of your site will be see you as online and he can chat with you directly. Uninstall Call “/modules/mod_olark_chat/uninstall.php” before you uninstall with the tools of joomla. Customizing You can customize your box direct on olark.com. In special cases you can later modify many additionally options for the olark chat box in the Joomla module administration (thats not the default way). You can translate and modify all messages. Summary Absolute easy and imposing solution to make web site support. It can be to extend from a private web site with one admin to a big web site with multi admin support. Multi language support for english and german. Easy to extend for other languages. Have you questions go to the (german) Demo site and simply chat with me (english or german). Changes Version 1.1.0 (2009-11-13) multi language support (en, de) module settings now have only parameters which are don’t editable under olark.com module settings now have default value support for this 3 new elements are necessary (mgnote.php, mgspacer.php, mgtext.php) install and uninstall per install.php and uninstall.php Version 1.0.0 (2009-10-09) Have a bug, if you change the position setting in the module settings. Don’t change it. You can change it on www.olark.com.

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Olark Chat (Unofficial)