Skype 'call me' buttons & SSL

[worthydealer]

Hi -

I was wondering if anybody has implemented a Skype 'call me' button on their site? (with Skype status).

It works fine, but on SSL Checkout and login pages in IE7 causes the 'mixed content' warning message to appear. As far as I know, Skype does not have a https:// version of the buttons.

I believe there is a way round this, by having a piece of php that downloads the skype image on 'on the fly' to the /acatalog folder, but I don't knowe the details. If anybody has implemented this, it would be very good to know.

Cheers everybody

[NormanRouxel]

Use a text link instead. E.g.

<a href="skype:echo123">Click</a> (default action - call)

And, of course there's nothing to stop you using one of your own images as a button instead of the "Click" text.

See http://www.skype.com/intl/en/share/b.../advanced.html for details.

[worthydealer]

Hi Norman,

Thanks for that. I thought of doing that, but I wanted the buttons to show my status (online / offline etc), which a text link or my own images won't do.

For the moment, I have a BLOCK IF statement in my Outer Layout to suppresses the Skype button from showing if the page is an SSL page, to avoid the 'mixed content' warning, but I was looking for a better solution.