Quick and simple way to add chat to your site

[Russ]

Adding chat to your site is easy, and fast. It's a quick way to give support, or just to have friends be able to talk to you without having to download or signup for anything.

I am going to show you in a few easy steps how to set it up, using both x10 services and another service. x10 runs a chat server, you can connect to it by clicking on Support chat to the left. This server also allows you to run your own room, and allows full control over it. To get started.. Lets go to this site:

http://www.mibbit.com/widget.html

From here, it's going to ask you some questions, the answers are:

Server: irc.x10hosting.com
Channel(s): You make this up, this is your room name.. one word. Always put # infront of it, i.e. #RussChat
Settings ID: Blank

Check:
"No server tab", "no server notices", and "no MOTD" uncheck "Prompt for nickname", and "Prompt pass as well"

Auth method is NickServ, and leave the charset the same.

It's going to give you an iFrame code at the bottom, this is what you'd copy and put in your site's html code. This will display a chat box on your site.

Once you connect for the first time, you need to do two things, register your nickname and chat room.

Type these 2 commands:
/NickServ register <password> <email>
/ChanServ register #Chatroom <password> <description>
This allows you to own those items.

Once you've done that, you can each time you connect, type /NickServ identify <password> and this gives you channel owner status, you can then click a nickname of a chatter to kick and/or ban them from chat!!

[sunils]

Nice tutorial RUSS. It will help members to set up their own chat rooms for their sites with x10 services.

[kkenny]

Very nice, but this may be troublesome because i see sometimes that any hostname from mibbit.com is banned by an IRCop from the whole server. Will you make sure IRCops and network admins don't ban this?