To install the PHP version of Floatchat on your server follow the steps below:
- Open the archive Floatchat X.X.X.zip and extract the folder in a server location of your choice.
- Navigate to the link http://[your-site]/https://app.floatchat.ai/account/?login and complete the installation. Replace [your-site] with with your website URL. If you change the directory name, replace Floatchat with the new directory name.
- Once the installation is complete, log in with the email and password you created in the previous step and you’re done!
Display the chat #
To display the chat on your website include the following scripts into the <head></head> or <footer></footer> area of each page where the chat is shown.
<!-- Not required if jQuery is already loaded --> <script src="[FLOATCHAT-URL]/js/min/jquery.min.js"></script> <script id="sbinit" src="[FLOATCHAT-URL]/js/main.js"></script>
Replace [Floatchat-URL] with the URL of your Floatchat installation, get it from Settings > Miscellaneous > Floatchat URL. E.g. https://example.com/Floatchat/js/main.js.
URL parameters #
- lang=LANGUAGE-CODE See the multilingual docs for more details.
- url=APP-URL Use this parameter if your application directory URL / folder has been changed. Replace APP-URL with the FULL URL of the application folder. You can also define the URL via JavaScript: var Floatchat_INIT_URL = “APP-URL”.
Site migration #
If you migrate the chat to a new domain / URL you need to edit the config.php file (it’s in the Floatchat folder) and update the Floatchat_URL constant with the new URL.
Minify JS #
For performance reasons, you may want to load the minified main.js file: [floatchat_URL]/js/min/main.min.js. Please note that if you contact us for support you will need to load again the non-minified version.
Requirements #
- Your web project must support HTML and PHP, and pages containing the chat must be opened via a web browser.
- You cannot display the chat on a HTML page opened directly on a local computer. Use a local server like Xampp instead.
- Your server must allow the access of the following file: floatchat/include/ajax.php
- If you’re using the WordPress version of Floatchat and you have any security plugins installed, please make sure that they don’t block the Floatchat/include/ajax.php file.
- JQuery 1.1+
- PHP 7.4+
- In your server settings, CURL, ZIP ARCHIVE, must be enabled and working correctly.
- Read and write file permissions must be granted for the Floatchat Board uploads, resources/language and apps folders. Floatchat must be able to save and read the files in these folders.
- MySQL 5.5+
- MySQL – The SQL mode “ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY”, and the setting “ANSI_QUOTES”, must be disabled.
- All Floatchat folders should have 755 permissions, all Floatchat files should have 644 permissions.
Once the installation is completed you can check the system requirements from Settings > Miscellaneous > System requirements.
