BlaB! AX
Free
Completely free PHP group chat. Frontend / Admin CP are with responsive design, HTML5 and CSS3 compliant. Supports any browser including mobile browsers and MSIE11.
How to install - Cpanel hosting
- Download BlaB! AX (FULL PACK) at the bottom of this page.
- Upload the ZIP file to your webhosting server web-root folder public_html from Cpanel File Manager.
- Right click on the newly uploaded ZIP file and select Extract.
- Rename the extracted blab-ax folder to mychat or whatever you wish.
- Navigate with your browser to YOUR-URL.COM/mychat/ - (the install will start automatically) and follow the instructions.
- Step 1: submit MySQL host, user, password and database name.
- Step 2: create your admin account (username, password, email etc).
FTP install? Help with MySQL? See the documentation. Hosting panel with Softaculous? Look for BlaB! AX in the Softaculous app library and install using their automated installation.
Features
- Supports all desktop & mobile browsers including ancient ones such as Internet Explorer 11
- PHP5/PHP7/PHP8 compatible: no PHP errors, warnings or notices
- HTML5 and CSS3 compliant
- Native code only - no frameworks or external libraries
- Excellent responsiveness even on old low-end smartphones and tablets
- HiRes/Retina displays ready - no raster images used
- 100% resizable layout - run it fullscreen or in iframes as small as 360x360px
- Registration system allowing 'guest' users
- Innovative method to reset forgotten passwords without sending emails
- Predefined mottos, users can put their own one-line motto instead
- A set of avatars to pick from or upload an image/photo
- Online status: Online, Away, Occupied, Unavailable, DND
- Rooms - separate chat spaces. Every chatter is connected to all the rooms and receives any message posted in any room with a visual notification and a different sound notification for messages posted in background rooms
- Private one-2-one chats inside the main chat window
- Admin can kick and ban users and IP addresses
- Material icons, EmojiOne emoticons, native emojis & stickers
- Colorful predefined themes; option to create your own in seconds
- Prebuilt PWA App that works on desktop and mobile
- Ignore option - chatters can choose to hide messages from other chatters
- Stealth users - invisible in chat; do not appear in logs
- Sound notifications on (1) new messages, (2) enter/leave/changeStatus, (3) messages in background, (4) PM
- Language & timezone settings per user
- Splash page - a front page with a chat widget (who is online, statistics etc) and links to login/register pages
- UTF-8 multilanguage support incl. usernames with non-Latin letters
- Frontend translated in العربية, 🇨🇳 汉语, 🇨🇿 Čeština, 🇩🇰 Dansk, 🇩🇪 Deutsch, 🇬🇷 Ελληνικά, 🇬🇧 English, 🇪🇸 Español, 🇫🇷 Français, 🇮🇩 bahasa Indonesia, 🇮🇹 Italiano, 🇭🇺 Magyar, 🇳🇱 Nederlands, 🇵🇱 Polski, 🇧🇷 Português-BR, 🇷🇴 Română, 🇷🇺 Русский, 🇦🇱 Shqip, 🇸🇪 Svenska, 🇹🇷 Türkçe
- Widgets - display information such as users online, latest visitors, top10 chatters on external pages
- Mobile friendly Admin CP: settings, logs, user management, themes
- ESC-centric - the ESC key closes any element that is on top and opens the main panel in chat and in Admin CP.
- On mobile, a swipe from the left edge opens the main panel in chat and the menu in Admin CP.
- Users can scroll with arrow keys, mouse wheel and by dragging.
- A double click swaps between select mode and drag to scroll mode
- CTRL+SHIFT+1 CTRL+SHIFT+2 ... CTRL+SHIFT+9 switches to rooms 1-9
- CTRL+SHIFT+L/R arrows cycles between rooms
Preview / Documentation
Downloads
- Download BlaB! AX 24.10 (FULL PACK) (2024-Oct-25)
- Download BlaB! AX 24.10 (UPDATE ONLY!) (2024-Oct-25)
- Download emoticon packs - Unzip and replace emocodes.php and emoticons.css in the main chat folder. To avoid loading a cached CSS file uncache from Admin CP » Settings
- Download sticker packs - Unzip and upload in a separate folder(s) under chat//stickers.
All stickers are editable with Inkscape - Youtube video: How to create your own chat stickers with Inkscape
Page updated: 2024-10-25
