New version 2.13v

This realease is maintenence release with a lot of small changes.

1. Updated xml module to return unread chats list also
2. More events for NodeJs extension
3. Changed autoload mechanism to be compatible with third party autoloads. Replace index.php file
4. XML module was missing some callbacks which are present in web interface
5. A lot of small updates to be compatible with newest NodeJs extension version.
6. Enhancement https://github.com/LiveHelperChat/livehelperchat/issues/511
7. If user navigated to another page sometimes user was shown as offline, even if user was online.
8. Not required interface sync was removed in popup window.
9. Cache for emoji icons https://github.com/LiveHelperChat/livehelperchat/issues/503
10. Sound for unread messages will be played https://github.com/LiveHelperChat/livehelperchat/issues/505

There is no database update in this release. 

Desktop client updated

I have just updated Desktop client. From now it will have one more tab,  Unread chats. Also notifications for unread chats will be shown. So never miss a chat :) Demo also was updated with this function. So just download desktop client from Demo page. 

Anyone want's to compile desktop client for Mac?

NodeJS extension enhancements

Today I have made one fancy feature for NodeJs extension. Basically it's fail over for NodeJs extension. It works the following way

• If chat detects that he cannot connect to NodeJs it will fallback to standard ajax queries.
• If chat detects that he connected to NodeJs it will migrate to Websocket automatically by itself.
• Above scenario can happend during chat as many times as needed. You can just stop NodeJs and you will see that ajax queries will start appear. Once you run it again, ajax queries will be gone again.
• So basically you can have running NodeJs without afraid that it will stop working because LHC will work as working just with AJAX queries instead.
• This all work was inspired by this Github issue

This feature is already live in automated hosting and also you can find all changes on github.

SSL everywhere, automated Hosting update, NodeJS+Redis

So yesterday I wrote that I will bring SSL support for cloud hosting and I did it!

• From now all the project parts will have SSL support.
• Automated hosting trial period was extended to 14 days insted of 2, so you will have more time to play around.
• Automated hosting was updated to recent version of NodeJS helper extension version. Now it uses redis as notifications handler. This allows us to eliminate administration sync callback. Also chrome extension won't use callback and just will use websockets.

Have fun!

Going real time and other plans in a few next days

So I have been working hard to implement few more nice features

• NodeJS + Redis will be let us to eliminate admin interface sync calls. Basically it's an ajax call executed every 10 seconds. So for each opertator it's 6 calls every minute. If there is let say three operators it will let to save 18 calls every minute or 1000 ajax calls every hour and if work day is 8h it will let to save 8000 ajax request. It will be added into cloud hosting offer in a few days. This update is already available at github https://github.com/LiveHelperChat/NodeJS-Helper I have nothing to hide from you :)
• SSL will be added to whole livehelperchat.com project in a few days including cloud hosting offer. Just to little hours in a day to do all the stuff.
• If anyone is interesting in automated hosting plugin see this forum thread http://forum.livehelperchat.com/viewtopic.php?id=686
• Future plans would include eliminating calls for online visitors list and somehow checkmessage from operator calls in front end site. But really not sure then.

Goodluck and happy hacking :)