Olark Live Help add-on

Dear Friends,



I’d like to introduce a new add-on that is aimed to seamlessly integrate Olark Live Help Service into your CS-Cart.





Olark provides clean integration with tools you already know and love so you can actually focus on selling and support. In fact, we’re the only live help tool around that was built from the ground up to work with a host of standard instant messengers. But did we skimp on the power? No!



Check out what we give you:





Use Olark anywhere!

Chat with visitors on your website from your desktop, your laptop, your iPhone, or your Blackberry. We work with standard chat (IM) clients (like iChat, Pidgin, and Meebo) and services (Google Talk and Jabber) which means YOU get to decide what software to use.



Multiple operators

Handle higher volumes of visitors with more operators. Each operator connects using the chat client of their choice and other operators are automatically notified when a visitor’s chat has been responded to, eliminating duplicate responses.



Offline Messages and Hiding

Even when you’re unavailable for chat you can gather qualified leads (name and email) from your website as people leave messages on the widget. You can also choose to simply hide the Olark widget when you’re unavailable.



Complete visual customization

Your brand is important and we provide themes, easy color customization, full css support, and even a whitelabel (non-branded) version so Olark fits right into the look and feel of your site.



Simple Integration - No code required!

Get full Olark integration by pasting a short bit of JavaScript onto your webpage (our tutorials make it easy) OR use our ChatLinks service (see below)



Know your users

Olark lets you know all sorts of useful information about your users in real-time.



For example:



Visitor name, email, etc. through optional pre-chat form or integration with your current login system

Visitor page location (know exactly when they’re on an important page!)

Referring site

Have they been to your site before?

Geo-location (where on Earth are they from?)



International Support

All visitor-facing text strings are customizable and we’re fully UTF8 compliant to support practically any language you throw at Olark.



ChatLinks: use Olark anywhere without code!

ChatLinks are short urls that when clicked, automatically overlay Olark on top of any webpage, allowing you to chat with anyone who clicks the link, NO CODE REQUIRED!



Great when you can’t edit the webpage or your site doesn’t support JavaScript

Distribute these links on Twitter, email, etc. to chat without disclosing any personal information of your own.

Great for salespeople who want to use live chat but can’t edit a website (you don’t have to involve IT!).

Chat Transcripts

Access important conversations with important information like emails and phone numbers already pulled out for you.



Continue chats across pages and off-site!

Chats persist as visitors move through your site and even off-site when a visitor follows an external link!



Extensible API (Beta)

Create custom extensions for virtually unlimited features with our JavaScript plugin architecture.







How to install the Olark add-on:


  1. Apply the below CS-Cart fix:


<br />
Index: trunk/controllers/admin/addons.php<br />
===================================================================<br />
--- a/trunk/controllers/admin/addons.php<br />
+++ b/trunk/controllers/admin/addons.php<br />
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@<br />
 );<br />
 <br />
 if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') {<br />
+<br />
+        fn_trusted_vars (<br />
+                'addon_trusted_input'<br />
+        );<br />
 <br />
         if ($mode == 'update') {<br />
                 fn_update_addon($_REQUEST['addon'], $_REQUEST['addon_data']);<br />

```<br />
<br />
2) Install the add-on.<br />
<br />
UPD: new version of the add-on is available. Now you can customize all the Olark's string variables.<p><a href="127.0.0.1/uploads/monthly_06_2011/post-5652-13081579832883.ipb">olark_1.1.zip</a></p><p><a href="127.0.0.1/uploads/monthly_06_2011/post-5652-13081579805871.ipb">olark.zip</a></p>

Looks good! With this release, is it safe to say that the original CS-Cart Live Help addon will no longer be developed?



Glen

Olark and Zopim are reasonable replacements of Live Help: they both have some cool features, that don’t exist in Live Help.

[quote name=‘Andy Ye’]Our native Live Help is decided to be replaced by Olark and Zopim. They both are way more easy-to-use, reliable and feature-rich.[/quote]



Hi Andy,



As a developer I find that the question most often queried by customers is the removal of unnecessary watermarks such as as the copyrights of CS-Cart etc.



With regards to the following image, can we remove the “GET FREE OLARK SALES CHAT” from the screen?



You can customize the link at [url]http://www.olark.com/customize[/url]



To completely remove the link, you have to “upgrade your account”. However, I personally see no reason to do this: their Free package is pretty feature rich.

Why is this in the Labs section? Shouldn’t it be in the 3rd party section?

I thought the Labs section was for stuff coming from CS that would be availabe in a future version…

[quote name=‘Andy Ye’]


  1. Apply the below CS-Cart fix:


```php

Index: trunk/controllers/admin/addons.php

===================================================================

— a/trunk/controllers/admin/addons.php

+++ b/trunk/controllers/admin/addons.php

@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@

);



if ($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_METHOD’] == ‘POST’) {

+

  •    fn_trusted_vars (
  •            'addon_trusted_input'
  •    );

if ($mode == 'update') {
fn_update_addon($_REQUEST['addon'], $_REQUEST['addon_data']);
```

2) Install the add-on.[/QUOTE]

PArdon my inorance but can you explain what I do with this code?
Thanks
John

[quote name=‘johnbol1’]PArdon my inorance but can you explain what I do with this code?

Thanks

John[/quote]



Where you see the + add this code. Where you see - remove it (There are no minus lines/elements)

I was unable to get olark to work.



Situation: Olark shows up in addons fine, the problem is when I add the olark code it does not save instead these 4 characters /**/ is what gets saved.



I am using CS-cart 2.1.2

Site is in a subfolder of my main site.



anyone have any idea ?

I installed it, I got the same problem.



/**/ and the code it is not saved.

@albert… You might want to change your username unless you like lots of spam.

[quote name=‘albert@officeuniversal.co’]I installed it, I got the same problem.



/**/ and the code it is not saved.[/QUOTE]



It clearly indicates that you still need the patch to get applied.

[quote name=‘Andy Ye’]It clearly indicates that you still need the get the patch applied.[/QUOTE]



I’ve applied the patch cleared the cache and yet it’s still not working.

[quote name=‘Andy Ye’]It clearly indicates that you still need the get the patch applied.[/QUOTE]



Same here. I also get the /**/

```php

Index: trunk/controllers/admin/addons.php

===================================================================

— a/trunk/controllers/admin/addons.php

+++ b/trunk/controllers/admin/addons.php

@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@

);



if ($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_METHOD’] == ‘POST’) {



fn_trusted_vars (

  •            'addon_trusted_input'
  •            'addon_data'
    );

if ($mode == 'update') {
fn_update_addon($_REQUEST['addon'], $_REQUEST['addon_data'])
```

[quote name=‘Andy Ye’]```php

Index: trunk/controllers/admin/addons.php

===================================================================

— a/trunk/controllers/admin/addons.php

+++ b/trunk/controllers/admin/addons.php

@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@

);



if ($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_METHOD’] == ‘POST’) {



fn_trusted_vars (

  •            'addon_trusted_input'
  •            'addon_data'
    );

if ($mode == 'update') {
fn_update_addon($_REQUEST['addon'], $_REQUEST['addon_data'])
```[/QUOTE]

Perfect now it works.

Thanks

Olark in your Favorite Language



There is no one language of the Internet.







That’s why Olark has always let you communicate with visitors to your website using whatever language you choose to speak. Our users come from all over the world, so we thought “what else can we do?”



Well, many of you already know you can customize some of the messages in the Olark bar, here. The Olark addo-on now lets you customize all the messages in the Olark bar, so you can be sure your visitors will know how to contact you.

Hey Andy,



I’m still not sure in which file to change the code you are showing here…

Is it supposed to be in the func.php file in the olark add-on directory?



I can’t seem to find that add-on.php file either on the system…



Thanks for the help!



David

I was wonderingg the same. What file do we need to aply this code?

This add on is very interesting indeed

You tell us theres no point in upgrading, but inside admin panel at olark I see the following:

Conversations: 0/20



This means that after 20 chats with customers we cant use it no more?