News: Joomla Chat Room Plugin now support 3rd party users

We are happy to announce our new feature for Joomla 3 plugin.

RumbleTalk Chat Room for Joomla website was just changed to include our latest API development. This allow site owners to create a chat room that allows their own users base login. This means that one can allow only Joomla registered users to login into the group chat room.

You may see instructions in here.

The change that was made in the Joomla integration is a new setting that allows one to choose between Members only login or General login using Facebook, Twitter or Guest users (can be set to all or one of this).

Members only chat room

What can I use Joomla Chat for?

Let say you have a website that allow users to pay for a subscription. Than your users could login into your admin panel and enjoy the wisdom you sell.

Now you want to add a joomla chat roomfor your users, but you want only registered user to be able to login into the chat.

The new feature allows you exactly that. Your users will be logged-in automatically with their user/pass credentials that you supplied them. So no need to double login (admin and chat), once they will be logged in into your admin area, we will use their name to login into the joomla chat room.

Note, the chat room will not accessible from outside your admin panel.

How to integrate it?

It is supper simple.

Download the latest Joomla plugin, create your chat room in our RumbleTalk website (get a chat hash), make sure to use the option in the image above that will set the joomla chat roomto be a members only chat room.

News: New Joomla Chat Room Extension Plugin

We are happy to announce our new Joomla 3 Extension plugin for RumbleTalk chat room.
Now you can add the RumbleTalk chat room service into your joomla website in a couple of simple steps.

This release of Joomla 3 extension was added to former extensions releases.

  • Joomla 3.x extension (New)
  • Joomla 2.x extension
  • Joomla 1.7 extension
  • Joomla 1.5 extension

Joomla 3 chat room extension plugin

  1. First, you will need  your 8 chat chat code. Create account by entering your email & choose a password at https://www.rumbletalk.com/. Then click on the “chat settings” and go to the “Embed” section and get the chat room code.
  2. Second, Install the extension / Plugin (You can simply download it in Joomla website or in here at the bottom of the page). Than follow the next steps.
    • Go to your Joomla admin panel “Administration”, then to “Extensions” -> “Extension Manager”.
    • Select installation archive, for example “plg_rumbletalkchat_v3.x.zip”.
    • Click “Upload File & Install”, after that you should see message about successful installation.
    • Go to “Administration” -> “Extensions” -> “Plugin Manager”. Look for “RumbleTalk Chat – A Chat with Themes” plug-in, and click on it.
    • On next screen select “Enabled”, and insert RumbleTalk Chat code. Optionally set width and or height (both percents are pixels are allowed). Example width or height values: “400px” or “100%” (without quotes). Save the settings, after that you should see a success message.
  3. Inserting RumbleTalk Chat to Article.Once you installed the plugin, you will need to choose where to use it. To add it to a page/article :

    Go to “Content” -> “Article Manager”. Create new or edit existing Article. Insert {rumbletalkchat} shortcode anywhere inside Article.

This is pretty much all. You can see a full guide in here.