A Open Source Plug & Play Online Customer Communication Platform. On PPMessage, you can chat with your customer via Web or mobile App. As open source Intercom alternative, nothing needs change, you can start a SAAS with PPMessage.

PPMessage targets to be deployed on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows systems. And PPMessage is a clearly API system which could be integrated with any open source Content Management System like Wordpress, Drupal and any commercial system even a e-commerce system.

PPMessage includes a backend system which exposes oauth and web service APIs, a frontend SDK named PPCom, a frontend App named PPKefu.

PPCom run on customer user side, and can be integrated in Web site via a single line Javascript code or integrated in mobile App with PPCom mobile API. Customer use PPCom to communicate with service user.

PPKefu run on service user side, service user can use PPKefu application to communicate with customer user. PPKefu can run on Windows, Mac OS X, Android, iOS and Web.

PPConsole is Web user interface of PPMessage and open sourced as well. After PPMessage backend running, PPConsole provided a Web interface to help the service team leader to setup the PPMessage system.

In the following, it is a simple guide to help developer delopy PPMessage backend and generate Web version of PPCom and PPKefu on Mac OS X. Want to know more, please go to PPMessage Site get more detail documents about PPMessage.

• Homebrew

  • Download and install from http://brew.sh

   /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

  • Install command

   brew install hg autoconf libtool automake redis libmagic mysql libjpeg libffi fdk-aac lame mercurial
   brew tap homebrew/services
   brew tap homebrew/nginx
   brew install nginx-full --with-upload-module
   brew install ffmpeg --with-fdk-aac --with-opencore-amr --with-libvorbis --with-opus

  • Or use ppmessage/scripts/install_brews.py to install automatically

• Manual download

  • Apns-client source

   hg clone https://dingguijin@bitbucket.org/dingguijin/apns-client
   cd ./apns-client; sudo -H python setup.py install; cd -

  • Geolite2 library source

   git clone --recursive https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb
   cd libmaxmindb; ./bootstrap; ./configure; make; make install; cd -

  • Geolite2 DB (assuming you have cloned the ppmessage source, and under the root ppmessage directory.)

   cd ppmessage/api/geolite2
   wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLite2-City.mmdb.gz
   gunzip GeoLite2-City.mmdb.gz
   cd -

  sh ppmessage/scripts/download_geolite2.sh is an alternative scripts way which PPMessage provides.

  • Mysql connector python

   wget -c http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/Connector-Python/mysql-connector-python-2.1.3.tar.gz
   tar zxvf mysql-connector-python-2.1.3.tar.gz
   cd mysql-connector-python-2.1.3
   sudo python setup.py install
   cd -

• Python pip

  • Install command

   sudo -H pip install AxmlParserPY beautifulsoup4 biplist certifi cffi chardet cryptography evernote filemagic geoip2 green identicon ipaddr jieba matplotlib maxminddb numpy paho-mqtt paramiko Pillow ppmessage-mqtt pyOpenSSL pyparsing pypinyin python-dateutil python-gcm qiniu qrcode readline redis requests rq scikit-learn scipy six SQLAlchemy supervisor tornado xlrd

  • Or use ppmessage/scrips/install_pips.py to install automatically

• Mysql user and password (replace DB_PASSWORD with what you want to set as mysql password)

 brew services list
 brew services start mysql
 mysqladmin -uroot password DB_PASSWORD

• Redis

  • Start redis

 brew services list
 brew services start redis

Assuming you have clone ppmessage and under ppmessage directory. In the directory, you can see dist.sh README.md files and ppmessage directory.

require.py needs super user permission

 sudo python ppmessage/scripts/require.py

 vim ppmessage/bootstrap/config.py

 sh dist.sh bootstrap

PPCom has iOS and Android SDK. PPKefu has Android, iOS, Windows PC, Mac OS X PC application.

Install Web javascript libraries via bower.

 sh dist.sh bower

Install node.js components via npm.

 sh dist.sh npm

Use gulp task to generate final PPCom/PPKefu/PPConsole javascript file.

 sh dist.sh gulp

 sh dist.sh start
 sh dist.sh stop

 sh dist.sh log

Use your browser open your server url which has been configed in config.py file.

PPCONSOLE/PPCOM

http://server_name:nginx_listen_port

PPKEFU

http://server_name:nginx_listen_port/ppkefu