Chat Feature for World Land Trust

If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you may have noticed me mention that I was working on a chat feature for a website run by the World Land Trust. This project has been ongoing for a while and has only recently gone live.

The website in question is WildLife Focus which:

is a World Land Trust website for wildlife and nature lovers everywhere, offering unique, high-quality multimedia content to transport you into the deepest, darkest rainforests of South America and beyond.

There’s a blog post up on the Wildlife Focus website itself regarding the launch, and you can view one of the chats on the Brazilian Rainforest webcam if you want to take a look.

Technical information

For those of you of a technical mind, it was written using Object Oriented PHP and jQuery AJAX calls were used to send and retrieve the data.

It also integrates with the existing PHPmotion system to synchronise the login information.

There is a small backend administration system that allows admins to setup new webcam pages, add new admins and to monitor any spam or reported chat messages.

And of course there’s HTML and CSS involved as well.

I now have a further project with the World Land Trust to work on, although it’s a lot simpler than this was. More on that some other time!