OpenChat is an Open Source messaging platform where people can send messages to anyone registered to this platform.

Setting up OpenChat on your local machine is really easy. Follow this guide to setup your development machine.

1. PHP > 5.6
2. MySQL
3. Composer
4. npm
5. git
6. Supervisor

1. Get the source code on your machine via git.

   git clone https://github.com/ankitjain28may/openchat.git

2. Install php and js dependencies

   cd openchat
   composer install
   npm install

3. Rename file .env.example to .env and change credentials.

4. Create an empty sql database and run import database.

   create database openchat;
   mysql -u[user] -p[password] [database name] < path\openchat\sql\openchat.sql

5. open .env file and set APP_URL to your external_ip address at port 8888

6. Open a message.js file stored at public\assests\js and set external_ip

   var conn = new WebSocket("ws://external_ip:8080");

7. Create a log file inside the root folder.

   touch openchat_supervisor.log

8. Open Supervisor\devserver.conf and set external_ip address at port 8888

9. Add the conf files of the Supervisor folder to Supervisor by running following commands in terminal

   sudo supervisorctl reread
   sudo supervisorctl update
   sudo supervisorctl start devserver
   sudo supervisorctl start server

That's it, now start development at http://external_ip:8888 in your browser

If you are interested in contributing to OpenChat, Open Issues, send PR and Don't forget to star the repo.

Feel free to code and contribute