Aerial Chat v6.3 Official Website: http://aerialchat.sourceforge.net Supported languages: English French Tested on an Apache server running on Linux or Windows WARNING : If you can, you should create a SPECIFIC user and database for aerial chat on your server ! AND IT'S ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA TO BACKUP YOUR OTHER DATABASES BEFORE INSTALLING A NEW PRODUCT ON A SERVER ! A Powerful chat in php/MySQL, using DHTML layers. Important: This version works with recent browsers such as IE6,NS 7, Mozilla and Firebird ... But a Safe mode is included for old browsers Description and advantages: --------------------------- -Easy to install -English and French languages -Administrative tools, kick, ban, iptracer, homonyms finder -Does not 'blink', because of DHTML layers -Uses the port 80, and is accessible behind the majority of firewalls -Unlimited number of channels -A different topic for each channel -Spy Mode (or Mateur Mode) wich allows anybody to connect without autheticating, without the ability of sending messages -private messages with alerts -Mp3 sounds -Colors -includes a telescriptor -Insertion of images or links -Easy smiley management -clickable smileys -Top list sorted by names, total time of connection and last connection -Jail and pause mode -graphic effects, background image -nice design Major changes ------------- -Fixed a security hole w/ DROP function in install.php -Added "ae_" prefix for every aerial chat tables ... -Clickables smileys -CLean code -compatibilty with the new php default value register_globals=Off in the php.ini -One release for all languages -Bug fix for local ip finder -Bug fix for javascript code -New Java telescriptor Installation: ------------- 1 - Exctract the archive and copy the chat directory on the web root directory of your server in for example a directory called 'chat' 2 - Create on your MySQL server a databse called aerialch and one user of your choice with full rights on this database example for Linux to create the databse aerialch and an user 'aerial' with 'pedalo' as password : >mysqladmin -u root -p create aerialch >mysql -u root -p mysql>mysql>GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON aerialch.* TO 'aerial'@'localhost' identified by 'pedalo'; mysql>exit; 3 - edit connect.inc.php and fill the parameters ... $db_user="aerial"; $db_pwd="pedalo"; $db_host="localhost"; $db_name="aerialch"; $language="en"; (for the french version, change $language="en" to $language="fr") 4 - With your browser, go to this adress: http://adresse_of_my_server/chat/install.php Warning: the following install.php script drops all the tables before rebuilding them ! So backup your user table if you're upgrading aerialchat ! then delete the file install.php for security reasons. you're done ! Advice: Aerial chat is optimized to run in a 720x480 pixels window. It would be a good idea to run it from a such a link somewhere from your web server: Launching Aerial Chat: ---------------------- Connect there: http://adresse_of_my_server/chat/ and follow the link Enjoy ! Aministration: -------------- By default, within the application, the admin account is 'Admin' and the password is 'orphelinat'. With this account, you can manage channels, flush or ban nasty users and obtain precious info on some users Documentation is integrated in aerial chat, click on Documentation on the top right corner of the screen. A good idea is to change the adlmin password once logged for the first time ...(clicking on profile) Aerial Chat v6 Written by Frédéric Dussurget and the Gloss Kiss Team Java Applet written by Gokhan Dagli (http://www.appletcollection.com) Special thanx for his great job ;-) Do not hesitate to contact me : fredamie@lagoon.nc