ChatBox is a lightweight Python-built online chat server, It's currently under heavy development but will be ready soon, hopefully. Please, at this time - do not run this in production, the project simply is not ready yet and is not working completly.

Functionality is near-complete but has not been tried and tested compleatly, and a lot of functionaility is not available yet.

In order to run chatbox you will need

• Python We are currently developing in Python 3.4.3
• Flask Flask is the webserver
• Flask-Sijax Sijax handles ajax for us
• Sqlite3 Sqlite comes standard with python, so shouldn't need to be installed, we use it to manage our users and (soon) chat logs

Currently we are in development so we currently dont have a way of editing users inside of ChatBox, so you will have to use an editing program like Sqlitebrowser.

Log.log will contain all verbose information about the server, such as startup and shutdown. Message.log will contain only messages used by the server.

To Run the server (currently with 'debug=True', which you should never do publically)

• Install all requirements

  see above

• Start ChatBox.py

  python ChatBox.py

• You can then browse to 127.0.0.1(Along with your respective port, Default: 8888)

In the logfile.log, you should see some logs like so:

    <29-02-2016 22:22:57> [INFO] admin > Test
    <29-02-2016 22:23:01> [INFO] admin > Hello
    <29-02-2016 22:39:55> [INFO] The server was stopped by 'admin'

Banning an IP is not yet functional
The chat function does not output to the chat page
Signing up doesn't add the user to the database
Banning an IP, removing a user, or banning a user outputs and ERROR: Functionality Incomplete.