Create a new chat room

Learn how to create a new public or private chat room using iFlyChat REST API

Create a new chat room

POST https://api.iflychat.com/api/1.1/room/create

You can use iFlyChat API to programmatically create a new global or private chat room

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
api_key	string	The private API key of your website
room_name	string	Name of the chat room to be created
room_role	string	The room role identifier. This determines the access to the chat room based upon user role. For example, in Drupal user role id for anonymous user is 1, and for authenticated user it is 2. Use 0 if not sure
room_private	string	1 if the room is going to be private
room_moderate	string	1 if the room is going to be moderated

200 The response will contain room_id of the newly created chat room which you can store in your database for internal mapping

{
  "room_id": 5
}

Curl Command

This the sample curl command required to make HTTP request:

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST https://api.iflychat.com/api/1.1/room/create -d "{\"api_key\":\"Wr4vpoJ_ET3lpBdX9E9TutUic4Dgb-gc7RGzuZvKqZgW5\", \"room_name\": \"test_room\", \"room_role\": \"1\"}"