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How to create a chatbox

Having a chatbox and a forum on your VA is a great way for you and your pilots to interact with eachother and build a sense of community. 

For my VA's I like to use a company called chatroll, who offer chatboxes for free. The only limit is that you can have a maximum of 10 users at the same time, but that hasn't bothered me so far. 

Getting a chatroll on your site is pretty easy:

First you go to www.chatroll.com and sign up for an account.
Once you got your account you click on "create live event"and give it a name. You can also set your own event url.

Now you go into the template where you want your chatbox to appear and paste this code:

<? // Chatroll Single Sign-On (SSO) Parameters $userinfo= Auth::$userinfo; $uid = $userinfo->pilotid; // Current user id $uname = Auth::$userinfo->firstname.' '.Auth::$userinfo->lastname; // Current user name $ulink = url('/profile/view/'.$userinfo->pilotid); // Current user profile URL (leave blank for none) $upic = PilotData::getPilotAvatar($pilotid); // Current user profile picture URL (leave blank for none) if (Auth::$userinfo->pilotid==1) // Is current user a moderator? { $ismod = 1; } else { $ismod = 0; } $sig = md5($uid . $uname . $ismod . '0m9lz2hd44k2duyh'); $ssoParams = '&uid=' . $uid . "&uname=" . urlencode($uname) . "&ulink=" . urlencode($ulink) . "&upic=" . urlencode($upic) . "&ismod=" . $ismod . "&sig=" . $sig; ?>