PhotonMessages

Messages

Layout

<messages-view style="height: 100%; position: relative;">
  <ul class="messages">
    <!--Messages here-->
  </ul>
  <!--Sample Toolbar-->
  <div class="toolbar">
    <input type="text" class="message-input" placeholder="iMessage">
    <button class="btn btn-emojis btn-input" data-insert-target=".message-input"></button>
    <button class="btn btn-mic"></button>
  </div>
</messages-view>

Message

A message is just an <li> element with a typically syntax.

<li type="system">
  <message-content>
    Chat with Somebody
  </message-content>
  <message-description>
    Today, 11:00
  </message-description>
</li>

There exist 3 types of messages.

1. system: A message that comes from the chat system and is displayed in center of screen (no bubble)
2. self: A message that is sent from the client (blue)
3. extern: A message that was sent to the client (gray)

To define the type of a message, just set the <li>'s type attribute to system, self or extern.

Toolbar

As you may already saw, you can use a toolbar for the bottom of your chat. The toolbar is optional.

This is a sample content for the toolbar but you can do whatever you want there.

...
<div class="toolbar">
  <input type="text" class="message-input" placeholder="iMessage">
  <button class="btn btn-emojis btn-input" data-insert-target=".message-input"></button>
  <button class="btn btn-mic"></button>
</div>
...

API

It is not very smart to add every message as elements. Therefore exist an API to handle a <message-view>'s lifecycle more smart.

Get Messages

Just get the messages property of your <messages-view> element and you get every message as object.

const messages = myMessageView.messages;

console.log(messages);

Add Message

All keys of the options are optional.

Simple Text

messagesView.add("Hey", {
  type: "self"
});

Image

messagesView.add("https://maurice-conrad.eu/acting/images/big-narrenkaefig-5.jpg", {
  type: "self",
  content: {
    type: "image/png"
  }
});

You can pass the message source (Filepath or text string) as string to the method or into the source key of content in the object.