KChat

PHP Based Chat Application.

Requirements

• Web Server Apache or Nginx
• MySQL 8.3
• PHP version >= 8.2
  • Required extensions :
    • ctype
    • curl
    • dom
    • fileinfo
    • filter
    • hash
    • json
    • libxml
    • mbstring
    • openssl
    • pcre
    • phar
    • session
    • tokenizer
    • xml
    • xmlwriter

Manual installation

Downlaod Kchat Files

Using git

git clone https://github.com/php-kchat/kchat.git

Install Composer

composer install

OR

Download Zip and Extract to your Web Directory

Install Composer

composer install

OR

Using with Composer

composer create-project php-kchat/kchat

Run following command to complete installation

Create .env if not exist.

cp .env.example .env

Configure database details in .env

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=laravel
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

Generate APP_KEY in the .env file:

php artisan key:generate

Chat widget testing

To test the widget on a separate HTML page, include the script from your Laravel app:

<script src="http://localhost/widget/embed.js?token=YOUR_WIDGET_TOKEN"></script>

Use the public test file at public/widget-test.html as a quick example. Replace the token with a real token generated in the admin Chat Widget Settings page.

For browser-based widget requests, make sure the widget API endpoints are reachable from the host page. In config/cors.php, allow the test domain/port and keep the widget route methods open to POST requests, for example:

'paths' => ['api/*', 'sanctum/csrf-cookie', 'widget/*'],
'allowed_origins' => ['http://localhost', 'http://127.0.0.1'],
'allowed_methods' => ['*'],
'allowed_headers' => ['*'],

If you are testing from another port or domain, add that origin to allowed_origins or host the page on the same Laravel domain.

Create tables:

php artisan migrate

Give a Writable Permission on

• storage/*
• bootstrap/cache/*
• public/images/*

Sign-in your first user and login

Maintainers

• Ganesh Kandu
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