MBPC version 1.0

• Requirements
• Features
• Setup
• Guide
• Changelog

Requirements:

Features:

• very easy setup, no coding skills is necessary
• fast loading
• no database req, uses flat text file to store data
• requires the user to provide a username before chatting
• uses sessions to store username and IP adress
• shows whenever someone logs in or out
• shows timestamp and IP adress of the user
• fully customizable with css, to match the design of your site
• XHTML compatible
• Only formatting HTML tags are enabled in messages only for a more colorfull chat, can be changed in the config file
• easy resetting of chatlog file
• field focus using javascript
• easy changing of charset to your default language
• and a clean and simple interface

Setup:

1. unzip all files to it's own directory
2. edit the variables in config.php
3. upload the files to your server
4. CHMOD chatlog.txt to 666 or write permissions

Guide:

• To reset your chatlog just point your browser to:
  http://www.YOURDOMAIN.COM/CHATDIRECTORY/reset.php
  and type the password you created in config.php
  
• If you don't want search engines to index your chat, open it in an external popup.
  <script type="text/javascript">
<!-- Begin
function chat() { window.open ("http://www.yoursite.com/chatdirectory/index.php", "Chat","toolbar=0,scrollbars=0,location=0,statusbar=0,menubar=0,resizable=0,width=400,height=400,left = 337,top = 209"); }
// End -->
</script>
The above code should be placed in the head section of your page
  And this is the link to open the chatroom
  <a href="javascript:chat()">Open my chatroom</a>
  
• To change the appearance of the chat use these id tags in your style sheet
  for the text input use #mbpctxt
  for the buttons use #mbpcbtn
  for the messages use #mbpcmsg
  

Changelog: