LoisirADos.com is a social networking website for French teenagers. As a member you get news, chat rooms, forum and a dating service… More than 300 000 teens connect to LoisirADos.com every month. Check out their nice and colorful integration of the toksta instant messenger in the screenshot below:
phpBB3 is one of the most popular bulletin boards for web communities. It’s a fully scalable and customizable, open source bulletin board package which is available under the GNU-GPL. Like its predecessors, phpBB 3.0 “Olympus” has an easy to use administration panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes.
With our new plugin (or modification) it is dead simple to integrate toksta* IM into your phpBB3 installation. To get your mod just register at toksta.com and go to the “implementation” area (”create script”) of our backend and select “phpBB3″.
Installing a Modification (MODX)
If you need help like: how to unzip, a description of what each file does, instructions on how to open the file in your browser, what each action means, the technique to install a MOD, what to do with FTP and backing up files, you will find here and here.
Elgg is an open, flexible social networking engine, designed to run at the heart of any socially-aware application. Building on Elgg is easy, and because the engine handles common web application and social functionality for you, you can concentrate on developing your idea.
It’s now possible to easily integrate the toksta instant messenger into your elgg based community. To get your script just register at toksta.com and go to the “implementation” area (”create script”) of our backend.
We’ve tested this with elgg 1.2. Please tell us if you discover any problems with different versions.
Besides the “normal” implementation code of toksta there are some ways to customize our product even more to your needs.
By default you can embed pictures in toksta by setting the variable $tk_profile_url in the implementation script. When doing this, we will scale the picture to the needed size and show it in the Instant Messenger. Due to the fact that there would be thousands of pictures waiting to be scaled at our servers we will only scale pictures of active users and the scaling is done with some delay.
To prevent this behaviour and embed the pictures directly from your server you can modify your implementation script like this:
Very important: The image size must be 61 x 46px (width x height).
1. Look for this line in your implementation script:
2. Now add this to the end of the line containing the url of the user
The final Script should look like this:
$tk_name = "THE_USERNAME"; //<−− please set the username here
$tk_user_id = "THE_USER_ID"; //<−− please set the user ID here
$tk_gender = ""; //<−− optional (the gender of the user can be female or ‘male’)
$tk_age = ""; //<−− optional (the age of the user e.g. ‘23′)
$tk_single = ""; //<−− optional (is the user single? ‘Yes’, ‘no’, ‘0′ = no information)
$tk_profile_url = ""; //<−− optional (url to the users profile)
$tk_pic = ""; //<−− optional (url of the users picture)
$tk_city = ""; //<−− optional (city where the user is located, e.g. ‘Berlin’)
$tk_zip = ""; //<−− optional (users zip code, e.g. ‘92553′)
$tk_country = ""; //<−− optional (country where the user is located, e.g. ‘Germany’)
//DO NOT EDIT THE FOLLOWING CODE!
$tk_user_data="name:".$tk_name. ";gender:".$tk_gender. ";age:".$tk_age. ";single:".$tk_single. ";url:".$tk_profile_url. ";pic:".$tk_pic. ";city:".$tk_city. ";tk_zip:".$tk_zip. ";country:".$tk_country.";direct_pic:http://www.the-url-to-your-picture/pic.jpg";
//implements the js needed by the chatWatcher and to start a chat
$tk_hash = md5($tk_user_id.$tk_user_data."[[your password]]");
$tk_js = "<script type=’text/javascript’ src=’http://www.toksta.com/js/w/?tk_hash=" . $tk_hash . "&app_id=8&app_user_id=".$tk_user_id."&tk_user_data=".rawurlencode($tk_user_data)."’></script>";
echo $tk_js;
?>
Thats’s it already!
PS: DO NOT USE THE SCRIPT ABOVE - THIS IS ONLY A DUMMY!
Today we have launched version 1.3 of the toksta instant messenger. The main changes in this release were related to our chat server technology which substantially improved the reliability and scalability of the IM.
But that’s by far not everything. Here is a list of the major changes in this release:
We also added even more ways to customize the toksta IM. We’ll write a detailed blog post about this in our How-to Series soon…so stay tuned!
Good news for all Bloggers: Today we released a wordpress plugin for our toksta instant messenger! This time Bastian Nutzinger from wallstreet-online hit the keyboard, wrote a plugin for wordpress and sent us his work - thanks a lot! To download the plugin just register and go to the “implementation” area of our backend.
Wordpress Plugin for toksta
aznlicious.com is an entertainment/lifestyle hub for anyone curious about AzN (”Americanized Asian”) culture. They want to provide Azn lifestyle/culture and music in a format that cannot be found anywhere else. aznlicious.com wants to make South Asian culture more widely dispersed and understood as well as offering a platform for South Asian to promote themselves globally. They are now using toksta as their IM solution.
