Note: These examples work only with a VolanoChatPro server.
An auditorium allows you to have large events with moderators, guests, and an audience. The auditorium is divided between moderators and guests on stage and all others in the audience. Chat messages from audience members are sent only to moderators on stage who can then post selected questions or comments to the auditorium. Everyone in the auditorium sees chat messages sent from those on stage.
Moderators and guests enter the auditorium through the stage
entrance, denoted by applets with the stage
parameter set
to true
. You can restrict the stage entrance to a
particular part of your Web site by defining the VolanoChatPro
entrance.stage
URL prefix property. Although both the stage
entrance and a normal entrance are shown on this page for demonstration
purposes, you will probably want to protect the stage entrance Web page
with a password. The auditorium chat room is created dynamically when
either a moderator or a guest enter on stage.
A moderator is a VolanoChat administrator who enters on stage. You
must first set the admin.password
server property before
you can access the server as an administrator. You must also authorize
this Web page as a stage entrance by defining its URL (or the URL of a
parent directory) with the entrance.stage
server
property.
The applet tag for this applet is the same as the normal VolanoChat applet except for the following additional parameters:
<param name="admin" value="true" /> <param name="stage" value="true" /> <param name="group" value="Sample Moderated Event" /> <param name="topic" value="Join us in a live interview at 6:00 PM!" />
A guest is a normal VolanoChat user who enters on stage. You must
first authorize this Web page as a stage entrance by defining its URL
(or the URL of a parent directory) with the entrance.stage
server property.
The applet tag for this applet is the same as the normal VolanoChat applet except for the following additional parameters:
<param name="stage" value="true" /> <param name="group" value="Sample Moderated Event" /> <param name="topic" value="Join us in a live interview at 6:00 PM!" />
All other users can enter the audience part of the auditorium for the moderated event.