install

Installation Steps:-

1. Extract and copy the Iflychat folder in the app/Plugin director
2. Add following line of code in app/Config/bootstrap.php.

    CakePlugin::load('Iflychat');

3. change your current directory to app folder and run the following command to create tables in the database.

    ./Console/cake schema create --plugin Iflychat

4. Now open url_to_root_directory/iflychat/iflychat_settings in the url.
5. Fill all the details for controlling the behavior of the application.
6. For integrating users in the application open app/Plugin/Iflychat/Controller/IflychatAppController.php in a text editor and edit the get_user_details() method to return the user details of the currently logged in user through database or session as mentioned in the file.
7. Create your Controller class and add following lines of code to it.

    public $components = array('Iflychat.IflychatSettingsController');
    public function name_of_action(){
	//body
    }

8. Open the view file and write the following code

    <?php
	$iflychat_html_code = $this->requestAction(
	    array(
		'plugin' => 'iflychat',
		'controller' => 'iflychat_settings',
		'action' => 'iflychat_get_html_code',
		urlencode($this->Html->url(null,true))
	    )
	);
	echo $iflychat_html_code;
    ?>

9. Now open the view page in your browser and see the chat working.