Adding FlashChat to the Mambo v. 4.5 menu

Using your Mambo administrator login, login to the administrator section, and on the "Site" menu, choose the "User Menu" option. We will be adding a new link, to FlashChat, onto the user menu.

In the Menu Manager, there are several options for adding and removing User Menu links. Near the top of the page is a "New" button. Click on that button, so that we can add a new menu item to the User Menu.

In the "Add Menu Item" screen (to add to the User Menu), choose the "URL Link" option:

Input the following information into the Add Menu Item screen (if you installed FlashChat to a directory other than "chat", then you should update the "Link:" path below, accordingly.

Name: FlashChat
Link: http://www.yourdomain.com/chat/flashchat.php
On Click, Open in: "New Window Without Browser Navigation"
Parent Item: Top
Access Level: Registered

NOTE: If the flashchat.php file is stored in a different location (for example, if mambo is stored in a subfolder on your server), then the Link path might be different.

Then, click on "Save" at the top (not shown in this screenshot). As the final step to adding the FlashChat link to the Mambo User Menu, we must "Publish" the link. To do this, check the checkbox next to the FlashChat row, and then click the "Publish" button at the top of the screen. Please note that you MUST have a green check under the "Published" column, to ensure that the link was correctly added.

Now, return to your Mambo site. If you are logged in, you should see a new link called "FlashChat" (or whatever you named it) in the User Menu. This should link to the "flashchat.php" file of FlashChat. When FlashChat loads, you should be automatically logged-in to the chatroom using your Mambo username. If you are an administrator of Mambo, then you will be logged into FlashChat as a moderator, which means that you can ban and boot other users.