We just added new audio recording feature.
The recording video feature was already present, but it was hard to find. We added snapshots messages directly into the main toolbar
So it is easy to access.
You have now choice to record either video messages (video + audio) either audio only. Recording audio and video is limited to 30 seconds.
New feature: you can now take short videos and upload them as pictures.
You need to enable in roles in your chatadmin the property called “canSnapshot”.
Once enabled, you will be able to upload snapshots. Click on snapshot icon.
Of course you need to enable webcam to access that feature.
Once opened, snapshot modal window allows you to record a quick sequence of video,
30 seconds max.When sequence is recorded, you can replay it, close it or upload it to publish it.
Once uploaded, you can play it back.
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In chatadmin, under config->design, you can now enable the quick room search feature that allows to quickly search and find a room by name by typing the first letters of the room.
You can now set the status of an user as offline after N seconds of inactivity (idle) in your chatadmin config : timeoutOffline (put 0 if you don’t need that feature)
If user leaves the inactivity, he retries his former status.
You can also disconnect an user after N seconds of inactivity in your chatadmin config: timeoutLogout (put 0 if you don’t need that feature)
in : chatadmin / config / users management
Roles can now enter a chat contest. A contest is simply when a chatter votes for another chatter.
A chatter can only vote once for another chat. He awards him 1 point.
You can enable a contest in the “roles” chat admin and reset the votes in your chatadmin panel as well.
When a vote is sent, a notification is sent to both users.
In your chatadmin, you also have the TOP 10 votes.
You can now switch to invisible mode to spy your users activity.
You will appear as invisible now
Possible scenario : your website runs a dating site where you can free users (role = guest) and paid users (role = user).
Of course free guest users cannot access all features that a paid user has.
Ex: a guest user cannot request a private chat.
We have 2 ways to solve that:
The pro of this second solution, is to incite the user to become a paid user on your site.
How to enable this second solution : go to your /chatadmin panel as usually and choose the “trial version chat messages”
If you specify the Url to be rediercted, the user will be redirected to that url, after he shows the message: this url will be probably the “purchase” or “register” page on your website.
When a new user enters an adult room, you can choose 3 actions.
These actions are defined in the security panel
You can :
The case “Hide the room if user is minor of 18”, implies you know the age of the user. We added the “age” on the registration panel.
If you use JWT to inject your data, then you can use that extra field:
birthyear
to add the year of birth of the user
ex: birthyear:1995
You can also use
seenByAdultOnly
that means that this member will be seen only by adults (if seenByAdultOnly=1)
Let suppose you want to join room id : 1620
(you can find out your room id in your chatadmin)
https://html5-chat.com/chat/54/?startRoom=1620
so for room : 1620, you just need to add
'startRoom'=>1620
So for instance your JSON will be:
$json = json_encode(array('username'=>'myUsername', 'password'=>'myChatAccountPassword', 'gender'=>'male', 'role'=>'user', 'image'=>base64_encode('https://html5-chat.com/img/malecostume.svg'), 'profile'=>'https://monsite.com/profile/myUserername', 'startRoom'=>1620));
We have added a new mixed mode to enter the chat.
For now you could Both mode
We have now a new mode, a mixed mode, that allows to enter as user (providing registered username and password), but also as guest.
go your chatadmin, chat config, then choose one of the 3 selections in “Enter chat mode” input select.
Note: This of course is useless if you use the jwt authentification, since in JWT, you can explicitly assign an username, gender and role.