FREE
BlaB! AX
BlaB! AX is a free AJAX/PHP group chat system. Both the frontend and Admin CP are with responsive design, HTML5 and CSS3 compliant, support all modern browsers (incl. mobile browsers), HiDPI displays ready (no raster images).
Requirements
- Any Linux / Windows host or shared hosting service with PHP/MySQL and PHP
mysqliextension enabled - If you are still running PHP5: PHP
jsonextension enabled (bundled with PHP7) - Optional: PHP
fileinfoextension enabled in order to recognize file types incl. uploaded avatars
How to install
- Download BlaB! AX at the bottom of this page and unzip the files in an empty folder e.g. /mychat
- Upload the folder /mychat to your server with an FTP program and CHMOD config.php to 666 and /attachments to 777.
- Navigate with your browser to YOUR-URL.COM/mychat/ - the install will start automatically:
- Step 1: submit MySQL host, user, password and database name.
- Step 2: create your admin account (username, password, email etc)
- That's all!
Hosting panel with Softaculous? Look for BlaB! AX in the Softaculous app library and install using their automated installation.
Features
- Supports any browser incl. mobile browsers.
- PHP5/PHP7 compatible: no PHP errors, warnings or notices.
- HTML5 and CSS3 compliant: passes W3C tests with 1 warning about scaling.
- No errors and warnings in Browser Console.
- Native code only - no external frameworks and libraries used.
- Excellent responsiveness even on old low-end smartphones and tablets.
- HiRes/Retina displays ready - no raster images used /why not? see FAQ/.
- 100% resizable layout, you can 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 and an option to 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.
- Two ready to use Android apps available on Google Play.
- An easy way to create your own custom mobile app for Android and IOS.
- 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.
- UTF-8 multilanguage support incl. usernames with non-Latin letters.
- Frontend translated in Čeština, Dansk, Deutsch, Ελληνικά, English, Español, Français, bahasa Indonesia, Italiano, Magyar, Nederlands, Polski, Português-BR, Română, Русский, 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.
FAQ / Demo
Downloads
- Download BlaB! AX 20.08 (FULL PACK) (2020-Aug-08)
- Download BlaB! AX 20.08 (UPDATE ONLY!) (2020-Aug-08)
Select and copy a color scheme & import from ACP » Style
Notifications - select sounds & create your own notification file
- Download emoticon packs {EmojiOne - default & NotoEmoji}
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. - Video: How to create your own chat stickers with Inkscape
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Page updated: 2020-08-08
