• Flash Player 8 and higher.
• Windows or Linux dedicated server (For hosted chat is not necessary)
• Red5 server 6.0.3 or higher - Possible to use Flash media server or Wowza for voice and video streaming (optional)
• Php 4.4 or higher
• My sql 4.0 or higher - OR - MS Sql 2000 or higher
• Flash Player 8 or higher
  
  For Hosted Chat:
• Flash Player 8 and higher

INSTALLATION OR HOSTING?
* An installation wizard makes it easy for you to install your Visichat. Step by step instructions also make it easy and clear to install. There is a FREE installation service if you purchase visichat with flash source codes
 
  * No server? If you do not run a dedicated server there are reasonably priced hosted packages.
 
  * Visichat can serve a private members community, an open guest chat or both. Then of course there is live Customer Support mode.
 
  * The Guest option can be turned off from either the clear, simple admin menu or the Visichat red5 server config file.ROOM AND USER FEATURES
 
* Your Rooms list is created from the simple, clear admin menu. As admin you can set the name of each room, the max.
  number of users in each room, and the type of room.
 
  * Public rooms are accessible to all users.
 
  * Private rooms are accessible only to selected users, as selected by admin. A Private room can be visible to all on the Rooms list, or admin can set it to be visible only to users who can access it.
 
* Live Support rooms are accessible by moderators who deal with each site visitor individually.
 
* Each user has three options: to upload a personal picture, select an avatar from the ones provided, or choose to have no picture. This can all be disabled by the admin. or admin can add their preferred avatars to the avatar folder.
 
  * If a user uploads a picture or selects an avatar from the list provided, it displays in the room's users' list. The default list displays neat little mini avatar pictures, to allow larger numbers of users to appear on the list. But a user can hover another user's name to see their full size avatar picture, or select for all users to appear with their full sized avatar. This creates a much more personal feeling when chatting especially for users without web cam.
 
  * Each Room displays X lines of chat to new arrivals so a user can quickly understand what has been going on around the time they arrive.
  This helps new arrivals to feel 'at home' and quickly grasp the current situation.
 
* Reconnecting after your ISP or your computer has a glitch is smoothly handled for you. No more frustrating attempts to get back in!
  The chat room reconnects you automatically, often without you even noticing! Reconnection is set so there is no conflict between a manual attempt to login again and the software timeout.
 
  * Admin can enable/ disable private or public voice, private or public video, and Hands free (speaker voice) options.
 
  * Private message chat is fully featured just like the main chat. Private chat opens in a comfortably sized window, with the capacity for multiple private windows at one time.
 
  * Users can block other members from opening private chat with them (but users cannot block moderators).
 
  * You can view how many users are in each room. When a user enters a room, the Room list updates instantly and so does the room number indicator.
 
  * Chat can be transcripted, choosing the period of time to transcript text. Transcript also acts as a freeze function to check back in a busy chat for missed items.
 
  * Chat text is parsed to support clickable URLs to open a separate browser window.
 
  * Emoticon smilies are always popular for users to enliven their chat with each other. With the flash source code you can create your own smilies, or add new ones.
 
  * Users can choose a font colour they like ‘on the fly’ instantly during the chat, as well as Bold, Italic and Underline.
 
  * Users can show they are male/ female/a couple, and give a date of birth in their personal window where they select an avatar or upload a picture.
 
  * The admin menus are particularly clear and comfortable to use in your Visichat.
 
  * Admin can set a default room to auto enter on arrival.
 
  * Admin can make selected users into moderators.
 
  * Moderators can kick, and if necessary ban other members. Moderators cannot kick moderators.
 
  * The user list shows a table, with user name, user/ moderator status, IP address, user picture status, email address, ban status, online/ offline status, and Edit/ Delete controls.
 
  * The user list is paginated and searchable.
 
  * Admin can set users to receive a prompt to edit their profile when they login.
 
  * Admin can ban a user by user name or IP address from admin menu.
  Click here to view an admin menu.
 
  * If you order Visichat's flash source code it's easy to create a new chat layout. You can create your own preferred layout theme and add it to your Visichat. You can change the chat background, styles and colors.
 
  * The whole chat window can be full screen, or compactly sized for embedding on your webpage.
 
  * You can change the position of each item in the chat in your layout including: room list, user list, history, public messages, the setting panel, login, registration etc.  You can make the user list wider or narrower, so you can make users appear in your preferred number of columns.
 
  * You can add your own language file, to customize the communication in your Visichat. To view a sample language file click here.
 
  * The flash source code includes all of the flash codes generated with Flash 8 Professional, and its classes.
 
  * The company also offers a 3D Virtual Chat interactive module, where you can similarly build your own designs.  For details see here.
 
  MEMBERSHIP/ DATABASE
 
  * You can choose to use a MySQL or MS SQL server database during your install of Visichat.
 
  *  Custom integration with an existing mysql or ms sql database is available on request e.g. VBulletin forums.
 
  * Visichat red5 server can connect to your database to authenticate users to make sure only registered members can login. External users from outside cannot access without correct username and password.
 
  * You can set the bandwidth of the visichat red5 server by changing values in the visicht2.xml config file which is accessible via the visichat red5 server.  

CUSTOM FEATURES OR DESIGN
 
  Please ask for tweaks or features you would like. We are very interested in improving Visichat for you. Sometimes we can add small features free if we feel they add to the chat for everyone’s benefit. Alternatively we will quote you a set price at a very reasonable cost.

Installation notes and installer script included in the package, however if you still need help, we can install Visichat directly onto your server for free, If you purchase visichat with flash source codes.
Installation includes: installing red5 server, Visichat installation and Visichat configuration.

Please note that you will need a dedicated server (linux or windows) in order to be able to run visichat onto your server and free installation is included only if you purchase visichat with flash source codes.

This does not apply if you use our Hosted service.

Global message [ 2.5.3 ]

- A built in mp3 player added for public uploading mp3 files.
- New option for admin users to send global messages to all of the users
- Possible to set the default invisible mode, if moderators logout when they are invisible, their next login status will be invisible.
- Improvement: Allow searching in the admin logs by keyword
- Improvement: Vbulletin usergroups integration added, possible to set allowed and disallowed usergroups by id
- Improvement: in vbulletin integration, if users did not activate their account or their account is banned inside vbulletin they cannot access chat.
- Improvement: Social engine picture integration added.
[ May 8, 2009 ]

Widgets [ 2.5.2 ]

- Widgets feature allows adding custom picture and swf files in the chat. possible to add different widgets per each room.
- Terms and conditions feature has been added, possible to edit from help.xml files.
- allopass credit card payment gateway added
- Possible to choose to display webcam icon in the userlist or not.
- Possible to hide admin and moderator icons to the users.
- Improvement: in admin reports, IP of the kicked user added as well as the moderator IP.
- Improvement: when set to not show webcam icon in the userlist, close user webcam when user leaves the room.
- Bug fix: chat sounds stopped working.
- Bug fix: when user login for first time, default chat and view webcam options are set to nobody.
- Bug fix: user always prompted to edit profile.
- Bug fix: users can access to private room by invite without having permission.
- Bug fix: cannot disable public voice.
- Bug fix: cannot send private message when users set it to friends only while they are in friendlist of each other too.
- Bug fix: unicode problem on admin logs and admin reports has been fixed.
- Bug fix: when user creates a room with numerical room name, it hides the main room from new users.
[ March 15, 2009 ]

Red5 v 0.8 Compatibility [ 2.5.1 ]

- Compatibility with Red5 v 0.8
- New option for users to set who can send their private message from all, friends or nobody.
- New option for users to set who can view their webcam, from all, friends or nobody.
- New option to separate private and public room creation in the permissions.
- New feature added to make it possible to display total number of registered users in your website.
- Possible to choose, select webcam icon in the user list or not.
- Possible to record microphone only, even webcam is turned off.
- Possible to set custom link for buy credit button.
- Possible to set default font for users which login for first time.
- Improvement: when someone kicks a user, IP for the moderator and user both appears in the admin panel.
- Bug fix: timely ban changes when updating user in the admin panel, if red5 and chat server not the same.
- Bug fix: if set no extension in the admin panel, file uploading doesn’t appear
- Bug fix: if user removes mp3 files, chat tried to load mp3 files caused big apache log file.
- Bug fix: when user login, does not hear current speaking user
- Bug fix: chat freezes when user tries to clear temporary pictures.
- Bug fix: roll over text didn't hide after moving mouse out of the clear screen button.
- Bug fix: in admin panel, users, sometimes latest registered users didn't appear.
[ February 1, 2009 ]

kick option for room creators [ 2.5.0 ]

- New option in the admin menu, under setting, for reducing load on server for public voice.
- New option to hide member list, and also thumbnails from user list and member list.
- Admin can clear screen of other users, possible to set permission for admin or moderator in the admin panel.
- Now room creators can kick other users from their room to the chat default room, however they cannot kick moderators and admin users.
- Sound alerts added for public messages in the mp3 folder, you can overwrite publicmsg.mp3 to change or delete the file to remove the sound.
- Bug fix: slow loading members list and also users list in the admin panel.
- Bug fix: Mailing list bug has been fixed when visichat is integrated to the other scripts.
- Bug fix: when admin leave the chat room as invisible, other users see admin left the chat room message.
- Bug fix: when trying to select year of the birth, combo box closes.
- Bug fix: when a user blocks someone, still they could view webcam.
- Bug fix: when a user disallows someone to allow webcam, they could view webcam again and again.
- Bug fix: when disabling gallery, icon did not hide.
[ December 30, 2008 ]

Mailing list [ 2.4.9 ]

- Send Email section has been added in the admin panel, you can create email, send to yourself a test email or send it to all users.
- Export emails to text file added in the mailing list.
- Forgot password has been added, users can reset their password with this feature if they forget their passwords.
- Possible to set close all webcam viewers when user move to another room
- Possible to choose picture share thumbnails height, This is height for pictures which users upload in the public and private chat.
- Possible to set not show adult room in user created window panel.
- Possible to set not show couple in the gender selection.
- PHP language class has been added, make it possible to load email texts from language XML files.
- Bug fix: when admin click on the invisible icon, it still shows online in the buddy list to friends.
- Improvement: Users cannot block moderators and administrators.
- Improvement: Increasing performance and speed by caching visichat setting table from MySQL into auto generated PHP class file.
- Improvement: when a user ignore another user, public text, drawing and picture upload will not appear from ignored user.
[ November 21, 2008 ]

Report bad user [ 2.4.8 ]

- Bad user report has been added, reports appears in the admin menu, under reports section.
- Uploading picture by URL has been added.
- Close webcam and Close microphone option added in the kick window, now moderators can close webcam of other users.
- New option in the admin menu, under setting to display webcam button in the private chat window.
- New option in the permissions to let you choose which user can open webcam through private chat window.
- Predefined messages added, you can define messages through data_xx.xml files.
- Bug fix: chat logs has been fixed.
[ October 30, 2008 ]

Reports [ 2.4.7 ]

- Reports section has been added in the admin menu, now you can check when anyone attempt to login in your admin menu, or when a moderator kicks other users.
- New file has been added for integration (scripts/integrate.php), make it possible to integrate gender and age values from your script into visichat, currently social engine Age and gender fields has been integrated.
- New option in admin styles menu to hide my webcam area for those who wish to run a text only chat room.
- Now list of fields appears in the admin integration page, make it easier for custom integration.
- Clear button added for drawing mode.
- When a user joins a chat room, country of the user appears next to the username, this feature works only when IP to country database is uploaded.
- Improvement: now its possible to search for users in admin users menu by IP address, or simply you can click on the IP to get all usernames registered with that IP address.
- Bug fix: after resizing the chat screen, login form and registeration form do not align in center of the chat screen.
- Bug fix: join and leave messages in admin log page has been fixed.
- Bug fix: allow send private messages option for moderators has been fixed.
[ October 12, 2008 ]

Ip to country [ 2.4.6 ]

- IP to country section has been added, now you can view country of users directly in the kick window.
- Ban country feature has been added, now simply you can ban/unban IP's from one country with one single click through admin menu.
- Possible to set if admin or moderator users have access to kick/ban premium users.
- New option to enable chat messages encryption, by enabling this option, your messages are being encrypted before sending so it will be harder for network sniffer softwares to get your data.
- Feature to set Status messages, possible to choose status items in data_en.xml file (or other languages).
- Text size selection numberic selection changed to a combo box.
- Possible to set the number of displaying smileys per message, in admin menu, under styles section.
- New option in admin menu, under styles section for setting link for entire showlog.php messages.
- Improvement: possible to modify email address in admin menu, under edit user page.
- Improvement: when a user leave or join the chat room, it will notify users who already have private chat windows open with that user.
- Bug fix: when user upload a picture, picture does not load for sender
- Bug fix: room creation problem for unicode usernames has been fixed.
- Bug fix: when set time limit for chat or view webcam, it doesn't affects anymore on moderators.
[ September 21, 2008 ]

Alertpay payment gateway [ 2.4.5 ]

- Alertpay payment gateway has been added.
- Buy credit button has been added above send button.
- Reset votes has been added in the admin menu, under setting.
- Show log script has been added in the scripts folder, its possible to include this page in your website to show latest public messages in your homepage
- Ability to set time limit each user can talk per turn when hand raise option is enabled.
- Ability to set time limit user should start talk after getting microphone on hand raise option.
- Improvement: room id added in online_users table, indicating which room user is chating now.
- Improvement: when a room is full, moderator and administrators still can join those rooms.
- Improvement: message log moved to red5 and saves messages in database once per 10 minutes, this will decrease load on mysql and improve chat performance.
- Improvement: in public message 10 smileys per messages appear to avoid flooding.
- Bug fix: bad word filtering admin area pagination bug has been fixed.
- Bug fix: when switch to invisible mode, invisible icon did not appear on user icon.
- Bug fix: Random disconnections has been fixed.
[ September 1, 2008 ]

Paypal payment method [ 2.4.4 ]

- Paypal payment gateway has been added.
- Option for users to set room as adult when creating temporary rooms
- Help section has been added.
- Update to premium account notification added, when users try to access a prohibited section, chat will inform them to update.
- Improvement: there is no default year of the birth now, users need to select their date of birth from setting menu.
- Bug fix: private voice bug has been fixed.
- Bug fix: private file share bug has been fixed.
[ August 24, 2008 ]