Introduction

Welcome to AddChat Laravel & CodeIgniter Lite documentation.

AddChat Lite - Laravel & CodeIgniter Chat Widget

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All-in-one multi-purpose Chat Widget For Laravel & Codeigniter websites

AddChat is a new chatting friend of Laravel & Codeigniter. It's a standalone Chat widget that uses the website's existing users base, and let website users chat with each other.


You get full source-code, hence AddChat lives and runs on your server/hosting including database. And therefore, you get complete privacy over your data. Either you're a big corporate sector or a small business. AddChat is for everyone.

Overview

Addchat Lite is a chat widget that you can integrate into an existing or a fresh Codeigniter or Laravel website. AddChat works like a standalone widget and fulfills all your business-related needs like -

  1. User-to-user chatting
  2. Live real-time chatting (without page refresh)
  3. Internal notification system (saves Pusher monthly subscription fees)
  4. Customer support ( Pro)
  5. Multi-user groups ( Pro)

and a lot more features coming up in AddChat Pro ⚡️

Why AddChat ?

Some of the key highlights, why you would like to go with AddChat!

  • Save monthly subscription bills (pay once use forever)
  • No Confidential Data leak
  • Complete Privacy
  • Easy to install & update
  • Use existing users database
  • Multi-purpose, use it as Helpdesk, Customer support, User-to-user chatting and much more...

{primary} AddChat never modifies your existing database tables or records. And it never breaks down any of your website functionality.

{success} AddChat is fully tested and ready to be used in production websites.

Technical Specification

AddChat is very light, high performance, scalable and secure.

  1. AddChat front-end built with VueJs, which is purely API based web-app.

  2. AddChat back-end (API) built with Laravel & CodeIgniter (two seperate products)

    • AddChat Laravel version is a Laravel package, hence, can be installed via Composer in an existing or a fresh Laravel website.

    • AddChat Codeigniter version comes with an installer, which auto-install AddChat in an existing or a fresh Codeigniter website

User Interface & Design

AddChat is designed in CSS Flexbox and Sass. Let's see what's so special about CSS Flexbox and why we used it.

  1. AddChat is a CSS Framework Independent. Means, no matter in which CSS Framework your website is in, it neither affects the website CSS nor gets affected by it.

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  2. AddChat CSS is completely encapsulated (wrapped in AddChat wrapper with #addchat-bot .c- prefix).

    • Hence, it never override your website CSS nor inherits from it.

    • AddChat UI is extra-responsive. Optimized for extra-small devices to large 4K desktops -

      • Small phones
      • Android Phones
      • iPhones
      • iPad & iPad Pro
      • Small-Medium Size Laptops
      • Large Desktops

  3. We've used the popular NPM package auto-prefixer to make the AddChat UI design same across all types of browsers e.g Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge etc

Multi-regional

AddChat is compatible with all languages and timezones. AddChat auto adapts and adjust regional settings according to your website's default timezone and language. Please refer to the Language section for more info about adding a new language in AddChat Laravel & AddChat CodeIgniter

{success} AddChat never breaks any of your website functionality, even if something went wrong with AddChat, there are fallback modes for every worst-case scenario.

Lite Version

{primary} This is AddChat Lite version documentation

AddChat Lite is open-source, free to use. Lite version has got limited features & functionality.

  • AddChat Laravel Lite

  • AddChat CodeIgniter Lite

Pro Version

AddChat Pro Version comes with Commercial license. Pro version is fully loaded with a lot of useful and exciting features.

  • AddChat Laravel Pro

    • Live - Live preview available now.
    • Purchase - Available for purchase now - Flat 50% Off (limited time offer)

  • AddChat CodeIgniter Pro

    • Live - Live preview available now.
    • Purchase - Available for purchase now - Flat 50% Off (limited time offer)

Credits

To enhance the performance, security and scalability of AddChat, internally we've integrated some open-source third-party libraries/packages.

  • Laravel - The PHP Framework for Web Artisans
  • Codeigniter - Open source PHP framework.
  • VueJs - The Progressive JavaScript Framework
  • VueX - State management pattern + library for Vue.js applications
  • Fontawesome - Open source icon set and toolkit.
  • Sass - CSS with superpowers
  • Axios - Better alternative for Ajax and for better compatibility with most of browsers.