django-live-support ================= A live support chat app for django that lets you chat with visitors to your site through the Django Admin interface.
- django (tested with 1.3)
- simplejson (required if using python 2.5, suggested otherwise)
Getting Started =============
To get started simply install using pip: :: pip install django-live-support
Add live_support to your installed apps and syncdb (or migrate, if you have south installed).
Your installed apps should look something like this: :: INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.admin', 'live_support', )
Add live_support.urls to your urls.py, like so: :: from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, include, url
from django.contrib import admin admin.autodiscover()
- urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)), url(r'^support/', include('live_support.urls')),
)
If you are going to use the chat_iframe templatetag, be sure that you have 'django.core.context_processors.request' in your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS.
You can either override the template for the start_chat (live_support/start_chat.html) and client_chat (live_support/live_support.html) views and just point users to the root of the live_support app as defined in your urls.py file, or you can drop the {% chat_iframe %} templatetag into your base template, but be sure to include {% load live_support_tags %} at the top of your template, which will render the chat sidebar (which pops out into a chat window) on every page.