• 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. FREE installation service included.
 
  * 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.

Referral code for payments [ 2.5.7 ]

- Referral code for payments
- New smiley pack
- Allow embedding the chat in other webpages using javascript
- Ability to allow connections from specific SWF URL to your red5.
- Support of basic IRC commands
- Display credit price in the payment gateways list.
- Invite to view my webcam
- New option to set maximum character lenght in private/public messages
- New option for users to set if they can be invited to view others webcam.
- New option to create permanent password protected rooms.
- New option to allow admin/moderators to access password protected rooms without a password.
- New option to display a message on the screen when a user sends credit to others.
- New option for admin to block/unblock text for all users in the currnet room.
- New option to limit user access to rooms by gender
- New option to choose media player width of height in admin style
- New option to open all available webcams for users when they join a room.
- New option in admin panel to clean up online user list.
- New option to set bandwidth limit in admin panel.
- New option to allow admin to change usernames.
- Bug fix: cam quality does not change when users change camera quality.
- Bug fix: expire date for premium user has fixed.
- Bug fix: registration bug fixed.
[ April 15, 2010 ]

Red5 0.9 compatibility [ 2.5.6 ]

- Red5 0.9 compatibility problem fixed.
- New feature to set if moderator and admin can remove user created rooms
- New option to set moderator users expiry date
- New option for users with multiple webcams to select their camera source.
- Predefined messages and font selector added to the private message window
- New option for users to choose if others can view their webcam without their permission
- New option to set links for widgets
- New option in Report as a bad user to write the details
- Modification in Admin panel users page for finding user by email address
- New option to disable/enable showlog.php and stats.php from admin panel
- Ability to change the default user created max room limit and maximum number of user created rooms
- New option to allow users to post links in the chat.
- Detailed permissions added for moderator and admin functions (kick, ban, ban host, gag, etc..)
- New option to set if moderators can delete user created rooms
- New option to minimize all new incoming private messages
- New option for users to allow VIP users only to view their webcam and send them private messages
- New option for admin and moderators to kick users from user created rooms.
- Ban by flash cookies removed.
- Bug fix: Chat profile not shown correctly
- Bug fix: Media Player not anchored right
- Bug fix: MAC - Upload Pictures Failure
- Bug fix: Confirmation on Buddy Removal
- Bug fix: Send private message to friends only blocks admin and moderators too.
- Bug fix: Youtube uploads appear big in chat window!
- Improvement: more strict validation added in the registration page.
[ January 25, 2010 ]

YouTube video posts [ 2.5.5 ]

- New option for users to post YouTube videos in the chat room, possible to enable per user level and per rooms.
- New ban tool to ban users by Host name, accessible through kick window > ban Host.
- New tool for moderators to stop users from writing, accessible through kick window > Gag.
- New feature to choose premium user renewal per minute, hours and days.
- New option to set permission to view other user’s webcam by gender and user level.
- New option to display city, state, country, gender and age in the user list.
- New option to enable picture and file sharing per room.
- Bug fix: friend request window appears each time user login.
- New feature to show top x most rated users and their vote numbers
- Improvements: in the stats.php file to let users to display the room name.
- Improvement: added confirmation message on room removal.
[ October 17, 2009 ]

video and mp3 player [ 2.5.4 ]

- Full featured media Player added in the chat, possible to play flv video and mp3 files, supports xspf playlist files.
- TargetPay payment gateway added
- New option to hide year of the birth selection in the edit profile window
- Moderators cannot see admins anymore, however admin can view all invisible users.
- Font size saves after changing
- Bug fix: problem with uploading files for Mac users has been fixed
- Bug fix: problem with opening webcam for Mac users has been fixed
- Bug fix: widget disappear after changing rooms
- Bug fix: welcome message not showing completly
- Bug fix: admin invisible status appears in the stats.php file
- Bug fix: Scrollbar vanish sometimes
- Bug fix: after adding a buddy, picture disappears in the friendlist roll over window
[ July 14, 2009 ]

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 ]