BlaB! 5 (Standard/Enterprise)
BlaB 5 is a PHP/AJAX based and best viewed with any browser multi-room web chat that supports PHP4/PHP5/PHP6 and MySQL, SQLite & PostgreSQL databases.
BlaB 5 also supports 'guest' login, has its own user registration system and can be integrated into various bulletin boards and CMS such as
phpBB,
IP.Board,
vBulletin,
Expression Engine,
Joomla,
Simple Machines and we add boards & CMS to integrate BlaB! with, on request.
Click on the images above to see 1:1 screenshots and different styles.
Features
- Supports almost any available browser today: MSIE6+, Opera, Mozilla / Firefox and Konqueror / Safari / Google Chrome
- Supports smartphones and any device with a decent browser (Opera Mobile or WebKit): iPad (incl. sound alerts), iPhone, iPod Touch, Windows Mobile, Android and Symbian S60 phones.
- XHTML 1.0 STRICT and CSS2 compliant
- PHP4/PHP5/PHP6 compatible
- NO FLASH & NO JAVA: no additional plugins / hosting server modules required
- 100% resizable, you can run it in iframes of almost any size
- Registration system allowing 'guest' users
- User profiles with info and avatars (incl. Gravatars)
- Different user groups with permissions
- Powerful Admin control panel
- Multiple rooms with history that can be kept forever
- Whispering in public rooms
- One-to-one private chat sessions
- Online status: Online, Away, Invisible
- 'http' links, emoticons, text formatting
- Bad words removal
- SEO: all public chat messages can be set visible to Google and other search engines with friendly URLs
- Language, sound & timezone settings per user
- Moderators that can warn and ban users and IP addresses
- Sound notification on new messages, when the users online list is changed
- UTF-8 based multilanguage support. Currently the interface is translated in:
Albanian, English, Deutsch, Dutch, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish
- 100% unencrypted PHP/JS source
- Free install and integration on request
- Brand-free: there is no 'powered by' line and no link back to us
BlaB! 5 Enterprise only:
- Hidden rooms visible to certain user groups
- Users are allowed to ignore other users
- Country recognition by IP [displaying a flag in the user profile]
- File sharing: upload and share files
- Image sharing: upload and post images in chat
- Video sharing: post & watch directly in chat YouTube and MetaCafe videos
- Map sharing: display in chat Google maps
System requirements
In order to run BlaB! 5 you need:
- A hosting server that supports PHP4/PHP5/PHP6
- a MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite database [a shared database can be used as well]
- Optional: PHP ICONV extension enabled to convert non-latin BOARD/CMS profiles to UTF-8
- Optional: PHP mail() function enabled to send out emails [forgotten password, auto activation]
Integration with Bulletin Boards and CMS
The pic above is a board profile shown in chat.
Currently BlaB! 5 can be integrated with:
People registered and logged onto your bulletin board or CMS enter BlaB! with their usernames directly, without a login prompt.
When bulletin board or CMS users enter the chat, their profiles look like the one in the image above.
Note that all info including avatar, usergroup etc is taken from a phpBB profile.
BlaB! 5 is NOT a module, NOR Add-on. It does NOT touch your Board/CMS installation so that you can upgrade it easily and even switch BlaB! 5 to work with another, e.g. you can remove phpBB and install vBulletin and by replacing a couple of variables in config.php, BlaB! 5 will recognize your vBulletin users the same way it did it with phpBB.
The registration/login part of BlaB! still exists.
It depends on your settings whether people are allowed to register new BlaB! accounts.
You can import user groups from your bulletin board or CMS so that moderators are moderators in chat, those who are banned are not allowed to send chat messages etc etc.
If you need to integrate BlaB! with a bulletin board or content management system that is not in the list above please contact us including as many details as possible.
The integration (if possible!) is free of charge for our customers.
We also provide a specially designed skin, information for advanced users and step-by-step instructions how to embed BlaB! into phpBB3, Expression Engine, Invision Board, vBulletin, Joomla, WBB3, MLF, Vanilla and Simple Machines.
The chat works in an iframe that is embedded in the template files of your bulletin board or CMS.
Admin Control Panel
From the Admin CP of BlaB! admins can review and delete messages, create chat rooms, set user groups with different permissions, ban and warn users and lots more.
The Admin CP is available in read only mode at our demo page.
 | CLICK HERE TO ORDER BLAB!
· €75.00 BlaB! 5 Enterprise
(no recurring fees, this is a lifetime license)
· €35.00 BlaB! 5 Standard
(no recurring fees, free minor upgrades 5.0->5.9) |
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