AddChat Codeigniter Lite

Welcome to AddChat Codeigniter Lite.

All-in-one multi-purpose Chat Widget Codeigniter Pacakge

AddChat is a new chatting friend of Codeigniter. It's a standalone Chat widget that uses the website's existing users base, and let website users chat with each other.

You get full source-code, hence AddChat lives and runs on your server/hosting including database. And therefore, you get complete privacy over your data. Either you're a big corporate sector or a small business. AddChat is for everyone.

Read the documentation live - AddChat Codeigniter Lite Docs

Live Preview - AddChat Codeigniter Lite

Here's a complete video tutorial guide for getting started quickly AddChat Codeigniter Academy ✌️

Overview

Addchat Lite is a chat widget that you can integrate into an existing or a fresh Codeigniter website. AddChat works like a standalone widget and fulfills all your business-related needs like -

User-to-user chatting
Live real-time chatting (without page refresh)
Internal notification system (saves Pusher monthly subscription fees)
Customer support ( Pro)
Multi-user groups ( Pro)

and a lot more features available in in AddChat Codeigniter Pro ⚡️

Why AddChat ?

Some of the key highlights, why you would like to go with AddChat!

Save monthly subscription bills (pay once use forever)
No Confidential Data leak
Complete Privacy
Easy to install & update
Use existing users database
Multi-purpose, use it as Helpdesk, Customer support, User-to-user chatting and much more...

AddChat never modifies your existing database tables or records. And it never breaks down any of your website functionality.

AddChat is fully tested and ready to be used in production websites.

Technical Specification

AddChat is very light, high performance, scalable and secure.

AddChat front-end built with VueJs, which is purely API based web-app.
AddChat back-end (API) built with Codeigniter
- AddChat Codeigniter version comes with an installer, which auto-install AddChat in an existing or a fresh Codeigniter website

User Interface & Design

AddChat is designed in CSS Flexbox and Sass. Let's see what's so special about CSS Flexbox and why we used it.

AddChat is a CSS Framework Independent. Means, no matter in which CSS Framework your website is in, it neither affects the website CSS nor gets affected by it.
or any other...
AddChat CSS is completely encapsulated (wrapped in AddChat wrapper with #addchat-bot .c- prefix).
- Hence, it never override your website CSS nor inherits from it.
- AddChat UI is extra-responsive. Optimized for extra-small devices to large 4K desktops -
  - Small phones
  - Android Phones
  - iPhones
  - iPad & iPad Pro0
  - Small-Medium Size Laptops
  - Large Desktops
We've used the popular NPM package auto-prefixer to make the AddChat UI design same across all types of browsers e.g Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge etc

Multi-regional

AddChat is compatible with all languages and timezones. AddChat auto adapts and adjust website's default timezone and language. Please refer to the Language section for more info about adding a new language in AddChat Codeigniter

AddChat never breaks any of your website functionality, even if something went wrong with AddChat, there are fallback modes for every worst-case scenario.

Lite Version

This is AddChat Lite version documentation

AddChat Lite is open-source, free to use. Lite version has got limited features & functionality.

AddChat Codeigniter Lite
- Live - Visit live.
- Github - Give us a Star.
- Download - Visit here to download

Pro Version

AddChat Pro Version comes with Commercial license. Pro version is fully loaded with a lot of useful and exciting features.

AddChat CodeIgniter Pro
- Live - Live preview available now.
- Purchase - Available for purchase now - Flat 50% Off (limited time offer)

Codeigniter Installation

AddChat CodeIgniter comes with an installer that makes the installation process fully automated and smooth 🍻

Here's a complete video tutorial guide for getting started quickly AddChat CodeIgniter Academy ✌️

Server Requirements

PHP version 5.6 or newer is recommended.
Make sure .htaccess is enabled.
CodeIgniter website with an Authentication (user-login) system.

Remember

The website directory must have proper write permissions e.g sudo chown -R :www-data yourwebsite
Change CSRF regenerate to FALSE in application/config/config.php $config['csrf_regenerate'] = false

Install

Download & Unzip the package.
Copy the addchat_installer folder and paste it into your website root directory.

After doing so, your website directory will look like this.

yoursite.com
│
├── addchat_installer
├── application
├── system
│
├── ..
├── ..
├── ..
│
├── .htaccess
└── index.php

Visit yoursite.com/addchat_installer to run the installer.

Make sure .htaccess files exist and not hidden.

Do not forget to delete the addchat_installer folder after successful installation.

Installer Instructions

Database

Enter your website's existing database credentials.

Assets

Enter your website assets folder path.

Config

Enter your website config folder path. e.g application/config
Enter LOGGED-IN USER-ID SESSION KEY NAME e.g user_id

The $_SESSION variable key name in which your application stores the logged-in user id e.g $_SESSION['user_id'] then the key is user_id

Application

Enter Controllers Folder Path e.g application/controllers
Enter Libraries Folder Path e.g application/libraries
Enter English Language Folder Path e.g application/language/english

And finally click install to start the installation process.

After successful installation, you need to do one simple step manually.

Open the common layout file, mostly the common layout file is the file which contains the HTML & BODY tags.

Copy AddChat CSS code and paste it right before closing </head> tag

<!-- 1. Addchat css -->
<link href="<?php echo base_url('assets/addchat/css/addchat.min.css') ?>" rel="stylesheet">

Copy AddChat Widget code and paste it right after opening <body> tag

<!-- 2. AddChat widget -->
<div id="addchat_app" 
    data-baseurl="<?php echo base_url() ?>"
    data-csrfname="<?php echo $this->security->get_csrf_token_name() ?>"
    data-csrftoken="<?php echo $this->security->get_csrf_hash() ?>"
></div>

Copy AddChat JS code and paste it right before closing </body> tag

<!-- 3. AddChat JS -->
<!-- Modern browsers -->
<script type="module" src="<?php echo base_url('assets/addchat/js/addchat.min.js') ?>"></script>
<!-- Fallback support for Older browsers -->
<script nomodule src="<?php echo base_url('assets/addchat/js/addchat-legacy.min.js') ?>"></script>

The final layout will look something like this

<head>

    <!-- **** your site other content **** -->

    <!-- 1. Addchat css -->
    <link href="<?php echo base_url('assets/addchat/css/addchat.min.css') ?>" rel="stylesheet">

</head>
<body>

    <!-- 2. AddChat widget -->
    <div id="addchat_app" 
        data-baseurl="<?php echo base_url() ?>"
        data-csrfname="<?php echo $this->security->get_csrf_token_name() ?>"
        data-csrftoken="<?php echo $this->security->get_csrf_hash() ?>"
    ></div>


    
    <!-- **** your site other content **** -->



    <!-- 3. AddChat JS -->
    <!-- Modern browsers -->
    <script type="module" src="<?php echo base_url('assets/addchat/js/addchat.min.js') ?>"></script>
    <!-- Fallback support for Older browsers -->
    <script nomodule src="<?php echo base_url('assets/addchat/js/addchat-legacy.min.js') ?>"></script>

</body>

Replace the assets by your website's assets path.

addchat.min.js for modern browsers & addchat-legacy.min.js for older browsers. These will be used switched by the browsers automatically on the basis on type="module" & nomodule, you need to nothing.

Setup finishes here, now heads-up straight to Settings docs

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