MultiCity Chat Hack [Archive]

Mark0380

05-27-2001, 03:39 PM

Credit for this should predominantly go to forum users Tim Mousel and Trog for giving me two necessary coding springboards for getting this hack (or is it mod?!?) together - thanks guys!!!!!

I am sure someone has already done this with MultiCity Chat anyway, so apologies for the duplicity - but I thought newbies might appreciate having this feature all the same.

Basically, the hack enables you to have a free MultiCity Chatroom integrated with your vBulletin forum. It automatically logs in registered forum users with their member-name, and an error message and login prompt is presented for those unregistered/not logged-in. And when you disconnect from the chat room, it refreshes to the main page of your forum.

Step 1.
Set yourself up with a free MultiCity chat account at http://www.multicity.com - don't worry about configuring variables such as color and chatroom description on their site, its all editable later.

Step 2.
Add a new template and call it 'chat_hack'.

Step 3.
Insert the following code into your 'chat_hack' template, remembering to insert the script code you obtained from MultiCity, rather than what's displayed here.

There are a lot of variable parameters for the customisation of the MultiCity chat. Most of these are cosmetic things, but a couple of them are vital for getting the auto-login functions to work properly. So check through my pasted script code here and look for the entries marked with asterixes - these are the configurable options that I tweaked OR added to the default code that MultiCity give you. Note: "AutoLogin" and "AutoLoginName" parameters are essential. Hope that makes sense!!!!

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>$bbtitle - Live Chat</title>
$headinclude
</head>
<body>
$header

<table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr>
<td width="100%">$navbar<br></TD>
</tr></table>

<div align="center">

<center>



<APPLET CODEBASE="http://www.multichat.com/ChatBox" ARCHIVE="multichat.jar" CODE="GUIClient.class" WIDTH="562" HEIGHT="385" ALIGN="BOTTOM">
<PARAM NAME="cabbase" VALUE="multichat.cab">
<PARAM NAME="affiliate" VALUE="">
<PARAM NAME="AllowCreateForum" VALUE="TRUE">
<PARAM NAME="AppletBackground" VALUE="#CCCCCC">
*****<PARAM NAME="AutoForwardingURL" VALUE="http://www.yoursiteurl.com">****
<PARAM NAME="BannerImage" VALUE="">
<PARAM NAME="Category" VALUE="6">
<PARAM NAME="ChatAreaBackground" VALUE="white">
<PARAM NAME="ChatAreaForeground" VALUE="black">
*****<PARAM NAME="Description" VALUE="Put a description for your site or chat room here!!!">*****
<PARAM NAME="Domain" VALUE="0">
*****<PARAM NAME="FontName" VALUE="Helvetica">*****
*****<PARAM NAME="FontSize" VALUE="12">*****
<PARAM NAME="HelpURL" VALUE="http://www.multicity.com/support/chat/index.htm">
*****<PARAM NAME="hidepassword" VALUE="TRUE">*****
*****<PARAM NAME="HomepageURL" VALUE="www.yoursiteurl.com">*****
<PARAM NAME="Language" VALUE="EN">
<PARAM NAME="LocatorEnabled" VALUE="TRUE">
<PARAM NAME="ShowLiveChat" VALUE="T">
*****<PARAM NAME="ShowUserInfoLine" VALUE="FALSE">*****
*****<PARAM NAME="Subject" VALUE="*Put your chatroom subject here">*****
<PARAM NAME="Translation" VALUE="FALSE">
<PARAM NAME="UseGraphicText" VALUE="F">
<PARAM NAME="Registered" VALUE="FALSE">
*****<param name="AutoLogin" value="TRUE">*****
*****<param name="AutoLoginName" value="{$bbuserinfo[username]}">*****
Your browser does not support Java applets.
Upgrade to a newer browser or use the Options menu to enable Java.
You may also use the link below to access the HTML version of your chat room.
</APPLET>

</center>

</div>


<table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"><tr>

<td width="100%" valign="middle" align="center" nowrap><b><smallfont>$timezone</smallfont></b></td>
</tr></table>


$footer
</body>
</html>
Step 4.
Create a new file and name it 'chat.php', or whatever you need. Place the following code inside.

<?
require( "global.php" );

if( $bbuserid ) {

$user = $DB_site->query_first( "SELECT username
FROM user
WHERE userid = $bbuserid" );
$bbusername = $user[ username ];
eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('chat_hack')."\");");
} else {
eval("dooutput(\"".show_nopermission()."\");");
} // end if
?>

Step 5.
Upload 'chat.php' to your main forums directory.

Step 6.
Test the file, and assuming everything is working okay, link into your forums page.

I truly hope it works for everyone. It is certainly working for me!

Just point your browser to my forums page (http://www.leatherforums.com) and look for the button 'live chat' in the header menu at the top of any page. And if you do register with my forums simply to test this mod, please please PLEASE do the decent thing and contact me to request your account is removed afterwards, okay? Thanks.

Steve Machol

05-27-2001, 04:00 PM

Excellent! I use Multicity Chat and can't wait to try this out!

Steve Machol

05-27-2001, 05:40 PM

I just added this. Very cool! :cool:

http://www.optiboard.com/forums/chat.php

Questions:

1. What happens when a non-registered user tries to enter?

2. Is there a way to detect if there are users in the Chat Room? This would be an excellent addition!

julius

05-27-2001, 05:51 PM

Excellent!:)

Mark0380

05-27-2001, 05:56 PM

Originally posted by smachol
What happens when a non-registered user tries to enter?

The same that would happen if a non-registered user tries to post an event to the calendar or a message to a "registered users only" forum. You get the default "You are Unregistered" message, with an option to login. If you login at the prompt provided, it automatically takes you into the chat room.

As for question two, I am not sure how you could achieve this, or if it would even be possible. Sorry :(

Steve Machol

05-27-2001, 06:04 PM

Thanks. I like the idea of the Chat being open to registered members only.

I did have one user say she couldn't log in though. Another one got in fine. I'm continuing to test it out.

As for the second question, maybe someone else will know how to add this feature to the hack!

julius

05-27-2001, 07:22 PM

I'm using multicity chat only for registerd members along six months, with another chat_hack that is in this forum, and many registered users behind firewall can't enter in.

Steve Machol

05-27-2001, 10:56 PM

Follow up:

The user that couldn't use the chat has a two letter user name. When she logged into the chat room with a a five character name it worked. My forum's options have been revised to accept 2 letter user names. Any idea why this hack won't allow them?

I'm also getting scattered reports of others that aren't able to get in. So far I don't have any specific information about their problems yet. I'm trying to get browser and version information from them.

-dloh-hammer

05-28-2001, 02:25 AM

someone knows ?

how to put the chatwindow direcly under the forumcats (but not in footer) in forumhome ?

RobAC

05-28-2001, 04:10 AM

Dude,

This is awesome!!!!!!!!!!! I love it!!!!!

Trog

05-28-2001, 09:20 AM

Originally posted by -DLoH-hammer
someone knows ?

how to put the chatwindow direcly under the forumcats (but not in footer) in forumhome ?

If you want it integrated into your board, check out this thread

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17866

Have fun

Mark0380

05-28-2001, 09:54 AM

Originally posted by smachol
Follow up:

The user that couldn't use the chat has a two letter user name. When she logged into the chat room with a a five character name it worked. My forum's options have been revised to accept 2 letter user names. Any idea why this hack won't allow them?

I have done some investigating - it is not the hack that is at fault, it is simply a limitation of the chat room program that is causing this problem.

Basically, MultiCity Chat will only accept usernames of 3 letters or higher. 2 letter usernames are refused by the chat applet - I would not think there a way around this, save for changing usernames. Sorry about that.

Trog

05-28-2001, 10:24 AM

In my templates, I put 3 letters and a _ in front of names to give members a unique name for irc. Maybe something similiar would solve this problem. All you need to do is change "{$bbuserinfo[username]}" to something like "abc_{$bbuserinfo[username]}" and that should fix it.

Steve Machol

05-28-2001, 02:28 PM

Thanks Mark for finding out the problem with two letter names. Trog's idea is a good one and I'll look into this.

By the way I'm still getting a few users who can't enter the Chat room. They get the infamous "You are not logged in" screen even though it gives their user name. I suspect cookie corruption and will ask them to delete their cookies and try again.

Any other ideas?

Steve Machol

05-28-2001, 04:42 PM

Mark,

I found out why some users can access the Chat and some can't.

The ones that can't all have one thing in common - they have the 'Remember Username and password' option set to 'no'. Once they set this to yes, it works.

Is it possible to fix the script so it will work when the option is set to 'no'?

Steve Machol

05-30-2001, 03:59 PM

*polite bump*

bokhalifa

05-31-2001, 03:47 PM

RobAC

06-04-2001, 01:54 AM

Question: would it be possible to somehow tie in the loggedinusers, but only the users that are currently in the chat room or on that chat.php page? The reason I ask, is that it would be cool to let everyone view everyone else's profiles. I use the Multicity Chat, but you can't "have" or view profiles in their chat rooms. Any ideas?

freakyshiat

06-04-2001, 04:49 AM

Users can still detach, then log back in with another name.

Steve Machol

06-04-2001, 04:57 AM

I still have the problem with the 'Remember user name and password' set to no. Did Mark abandon us?

ToraTora!

06-05-2001, 03:58 AM

the hack worked great, and I thank you very much for the time and effort put into this idea, however we switched, and found info chat to be much more to our liking. We have it in our site, but we would like to have the auto member log in set up like it was previously for multicity, incorperated for info chat.
Any help on this would be appreciated.

and yes, we did a seach, and nothing showed up except the same question, about the same topic. :)

GeorgeofCS

06-10-2001, 06:43 PM

I'm new to php, but is there anyway to make it so moderators and admin see a different template than other users. I'm wanting to use this hack for another chat service, but I need to allow my mods to be able to moderate the chats.

Thanks in advance

chilliboy

06-12-2001, 12:37 PM

Hi,

Just tried this out and I must say it worked really well. Excuse me for being dumb - but is the multicitychat remotely hosted?? Its just that unfortunately my host (hostrocket) do not allow java applets on there servers.

Cheers in advance

PS - would it be possible to incorporate different chat rooms for different forum sections??

julius

06-12-2001, 01:40 PM

Yes it is remotely hosted.

chris frolic

06-12-2001, 07:42 PM

Originally posted by Fazle
Users can still detach, then log back in with another name.

is there a parameter to turn off the detach button? anyone know?

Dakota

06-13-2001, 02:27 AM

Ok, I would like to know if there is a way that I can increase the size of the chat window. I have several thousand members on my forum, and this little window won't cut it once I get the normal amout of users in there. Thats around 100 for most of the day.
www.bidforpower.com/forum/chat.php

Edit: Nm, I found out what the Detatch button does. :) I just found out that I want to get rid if the disconnect button.

akiy

06-13-2001, 03:21 AM

Originally posted by chris frolic
is there a parameter to turn off the detach button? anyone know?
<PARAM NAME="ShowDetach" VALUE="FALSE">

also:

<PARAM NAME="LocatorEnabled" VALUE="FALSE">

... will turn the "Active Chats" button into a "Home Page" button (so people won't be wandering over to another channel).

Originally posted by Dakota
Ok, I would like to know if there is a way that I can increase the size of the chat window.

Change the HEIGHT parameter in the APPLET tag from 385 to something larger.

Hope that helps!

Dakota

06-13-2001, 03:41 AM

well I like the detatch button, it lets you use a window to resize it. I wanna get rid of the disconnect.

Dakota

06-13-2001, 11:54 PM

Well I decided that I didn't like the multicity applet when I saw how little control I had. So I am using irc now. You only have to register a channel, and then replace the applet in the chat_hack template with this. The stars specify that you need to change something on that line. Usually just putting in the server and channel name.

<TBODY>
<TR bgColor=#999900 borderColor=#000000>
<TD width="100%">
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#999999
face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=1><FONT
size=2><FONT color=#ffffff size=1><B><FONT color=#cccccc>.<FONT
color=#ffffff>Chat</FONT>.
</FONT></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></TD></TR>
<TR vAlign=top>
<TD height=50 width="100%">
<P align=left><FONT face="Verdana, Arial" size=2><FONT
face="Verdana, Arial" size=2>
*****<APPLET code=Chat.class height=400 width=444 alt="server #channelname" archive="jirc_nss.zip">
<PARAM NAME="CABBASE" VALUE="jirc_mss.cab">
<PARAM NAME="ServerPort" VALUE="6667">
*****<PARAM NAME="ServerName1" VALUE="server">
*****<PARAM NAME="Channel1" VALUE="#channel">
<PARAM NAME="AllowURL" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="AllowIdentd" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="WelcomeMessage" VALUE="">
<PARAM NAME="RealName" VALUE="Site Applet User">
<PARAM NAME="NickName" VALUE="{$bbuserinfo[username]}">
<PARAM NAME="UserName" VALUE="None">
<PARAM NAME="isLimitedServers" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="isLimitedChannels" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="MessageCol" VALUE="80">
<PARAM NAME="BackgroundColor" VALUE="99,132,181">
<PARAM NAME="TextColor" VALUE="black">
<PARAM NAME="TextScreenColor" VALUE="white">
<PARAM NAME="ListTextColor" VALUE="black">
<PARAM NAME="TextFontName" VALUE="Verdana">
<PARAM NAME="TextFontSize" VALUE="10">
<PARAM NAME="ConfigNickOnly" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="NickNChannelOnly" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="LogoBgColor" VALUE="white">
<PARAM NAME="BorderVsp" VALUE="3">
<PARAM NAME="DirectStart" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="FGColor" VALUE="black">
<PARAM NAME="TitleBackgroundColor" VALUE="black">
<PARAM NAME="TitleForegroundColor" VALUE="white">
<PARAM NAME="InputTextColor" VALUE="black">
<PARAM NAME="InputScreenColor" VALUE="white">
<PARAM NAME="IgnoreLevel" VALUE="3">
<PARAM NAME="DisplayConfigRealName" VALUE="false">
<PARAM NAME="DisplayConfigServer" VALUE="false">
<PARAM NAME="DisplayConfigPort" VALUE="false">
<PARAM NAME="DisplayConfigMisc" VALUE="false">
<PARAM NAME="LicenseKey" VALUE="2727595959-37230483858208-133434764482443414852391-372304838582686393652391349333821334">
<PARAM NAME="code" VALUE="Chat.class">
<PARAM NAME="height" VALUE="480">
<PARAM NAME="width" VALUE="640">
<PARAM NAME="archive" VALUE="jirc_nss.zip">
*****<PARAM NAME="codeBase" VALUE="website url">
*****<PARAM NAME="alt" VALUE="server #channel">
</APPLET></FONT></FONT></P>

It works fine for me. If you wanna see what it looks like the click here (www.bidforpower.com/forum/chat.php). Keep in mind that I changed the dimensions of mine.

RobAC

06-14-2001, 01:30 AM

Is there a way to temporarily allow non-forum members access to the chat room? In other words, say I want to open the chat room to members and nonmembers alike one night a week. Is there an easy way to do this?

atrl

06-15-2001, 01:37 PM

this script is great!!!!!

Don ->LKSAB

06-15-2001, 02:25 PM

Works great
Thanks to all of you.
Now i only need a hack that puts a " * " infront of the users in the "online users" If they are in the Jpilot chat.

That would be so cool.

/Don

julius

06-15-2001, 03:02 PM

Originally posted by Dakota
...You only have to register a channel, ...
Where can I register a channel? :)

Dakota

06-15-2001, 05:41 PM

Well, there are alot of servers. IRC already has alot of the servers built into it. I know alot of people use dalnet of efnet.

gazdet

06-21-2001, 09:30 AM

This is a great hack well done! :D

Only one thing....my members can log in with a fake username if they catch the logout window quick enough.

I'm using a free version of the multicity chat because I dont need any real admin functions etc.

The auto-login feature is working fine when they come from the forum, it's just this problem of members logging out then quickly signing in again using another member's name that is becoming a problem.

Is being able to enter a fake member name normal or have I done something wrong?

Thanks :)

hubba

06-21-2001, 05:14 PM

This would be really cool, if its possible to mark an online chatuser, so that other can see i.e. the forumhome which users are chatting...

Fred

08-04-2001, 07:24 PM

does this hack work on 2.0?

rockergrrl

08-04-2001, 07:35 PM

I'm sure it does.. I have it working on 2.0.3...

Why are you only running 2.0.0 anyways??

Steve Machol

08-04-2001, 07:55 PM

It's working on my 2.0.3 also, plus it's integrated with the new Who's Online feature!

rockergrrl

08-04-2001, 07:57 PM

Originally posted by smachol
plus it's integrated with the new Who's Online feature!

Mine too... :D

Fred

08-04-2001, 10:40 PM

I like the numbers 2.0.0 rahter than 2.0.3 :)

mojotim

08-04-2001, 11:48 PM

When I use the <applet> code in this hack, it just hangs up. Keeps trying to dowload...When I just use the multicity <applet> it's no problem. Anybody have any ideas for me?

blade

08-05-2001, 01:30 PM

This is cool, thanks :)

2 questions.

How do you get it to show online uses? I do have vb 2.03 and it doesn't show. Is there a code to insert in loggedonusers?.

And when clicking on "disconnect" it doesn't go to the forums, just to a part having "guest' on it to log back into chat.

Evoir

08-06-2001, 05:45 PM

I very much want this to work, but I can't seem to figure it out. I'll go over the steps I did:

I'm running vB 2.03

1) got a multicity account (free)

2) created a new template and called it "chat_hack" and pasted the code that Mark0380 suggested (of course, I used my own multicity account)

Looks like this:

<!DOCTYPE?HTML?PUBLIC?"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"?"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">

<HTML>

<HEAD>

<TITLE>$bbtitle?-?Live?Chat</title>

$headinclude

</head>

<body>

$header

<table?border="0"?width="100%"?cellpadding="0"?cellspacing="0"><tr>

<td?width="100%">$navbar<br></TD>

</tr></table>

<div?align="center">

<center>

<applet codebase="http://chat.multicity.com/Chat8/" code="GUIClient.class" width="400" height="500" archive=multichat.jar>

<PARAM?NAME="cabbase"?VALUE="multichat.cab">

<param name="roomid" value="XXXXXXXXXX">

<PARAM?NAME="affiliate"?VALUE="">

<PARAM?NAME="AllowCreateForum"?VALUE="TRUE">

<PARAM?NAME="AppletBackground"?VALUE="#CCCCCC">

<PARAM?NAME="AutoForwardingURL"?VALUE="http://www.curvemag.com">

<PARAM?NAME="BannerImage"?VALUE="">

<PARAM?NAME="Category"?VALUE="6">

<PARAM?NAME="ChatAreaBackground"?VALUE="white">

<PARAM?NAME="ChatAreaForeground"?VALUE="black">

<PARAM?NAME="Description"?VALUE="Private Chat for Curve Magazine">

<PARAM?NAME="Domain"?VALUE="0">

<PARAM?NAME="FontName"?VALUE="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">

<PARAM?NAME="FontSize"?VALUE="12">

<PARAM?NAME="HelpURL"?VALUE="http://www.multicity.com/support/chat/index.htm">

<PARAM?NAME="hidepassword"?VALUE="TRUE">

<PARAM?NAME="HomepageURL"?VALUE="http://www.curvemag.com">

<PARAM?NAME="Language"?VALUE="EN">

<PARAM?NAME="LocatorEnabled"?VALUE="TRUE">

<PARAM?NAME="ShowLiveChat"?VALUE="T">

<PARAM?NAME="ShowUserInfoLine"?VALUE="FALSE">

<PARAM?NAME="Subject"?VALUE="*Replacing the random threads">

<PARAM?NAME="Translation"?VALUE="FALSE">

<PARAM?NAME="UseGraphicText"?VALUE="F">

<PARAM?NAME="Registered"?VALUE="FALSE">

<param?name="AutoLogin"?value="TRUE">

<param?name="AutoLoginName"?value="abc_{$bbuserinfo[username]}">

Your?browser?does?not?support?Java?applets.

Upgrade?to?a?newer?browser?or?use?the?Options?menu ?to?enable?Java.

You?may?also?use?the?link?below?to?access?the?HTML ?version?of?your?chat?room.

</APPLET>

</center>

</div>



<table?border="0"?width="100%"?cellpadding="4"?cellspacing="0"><tr>

<td?width="100%"?valign="middle"?align="center"?nowrap><b><smallfont>$timezone</smallfont></b></td>

</tr></table>



$footer

</body>

</html>

Then, I created a file, calling it "chat.php" and uploaded it into my vB main directory. That file looks like this:
<??

require(?"global.php"?);?

if(?$bbuserid?)?{?

$user?=?$DB_site->query_first(?"SELECT?username?

FROM?user?

WHERE?userid?=?$bbuserid"?);?

$bbusername?=?$user[?username?];?

eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('chat_hack')."\");");?

}?else?{?

eval("dooutput(\"".show_nopermission()."\");");?

}?// end if

?>

When I call the script, I get a blank page:
http://www.curvemag.com/speak/chat.php

Any suggestions? Is it clear what i might be doing wrong?

RobAC

08-06-2001, 06:40 PM

Is the path to your global.php file correct?

Evoir

08-06-2001, 06:43 PM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by RobAC
Is the path to your global.php file correct?

RobAC

08-06-2001, 06:45 PM

You also need to take a look at some of the parameters that you're specifying near the end of the chat room coding from Multicity. This is what I have:

<PARAM NAME="Subject" VALUE="*Solid Axle Lounge-Corvette Chat">
<PARAM NAME="Translation" VALUE="TRUE">
<PARAM NAME="UseGraphicText" VALUE="FALSE">
<PARAM NAME="roomid" VALUE="#########">
<PARAM NAME="AutoLogin" VALUE="TRUE">
<PARAM NAME="AutoLoginName" VALUE="{$bbuserinfo[username]}">

Evoir

08-06-2001, 07:01 PM

Thanks Rob,

Can you or anyone tell me if my parameters are correct? It seems most weird that the page is BLANK.

<applet codebase="http://chat.multicity.com/Chat8/" code="GUIClient.class" width="400" height="500" archive=multichat.jar>
<PARAM?NAME="cabbase"?VALUE="multichat.cab">
<PARAM?NAME="roomid" VALUE="xxxxxxxxxx">
<PARAM?NAME="affiliate"?VALUE="">
<PARAM?NAME="AllowCreateForum"?VALUE="TRUE">
<PARAM?NAME="AppletBackground"?VALUE="#CCCCCC">
<PARAM?NAME="AutoForwardingURL"?VALUE="http://www.curvemag.com">
<PARAM?NAME="BannerImage"?VALUE="">
<PARAM?NAME="Category"?VALUE="6">
<PARAM?NAME="ChatAreaBackground"?VALUE="white">
<PARAM?NAME="ChatAreaForeground"?VALUE="black">
<PARAM?NAME="Description"?VALUE="Private Chat for Curve Magazine">
<PARAM?NAME="Domain"?VALUE="0">
<PARAM?NAME="FontName"?VALUE="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<PARAM?NAME="FontSize"?VALUE="12">
<PARAM?NAME="HelpURL"?VALUE="http://www.multicity.com/support/chat/index.htm">
<PARAM?NAME="hidepassword"?VALUE="TRUE">
<PARAM?NAME="HomepageURL"?VALUE="http://www.curvemag.com">
<PARAM?NAME="Language"?VALUE="EN">
<PARAM?NAME="LocatorEnabled"?VALUE="TRUE">
<PARAM?NAME="ShowLiveChat"?VALUE="TRUE">
<PARAM?NAME="ShowUserInfoLine"?VALUE="FALSE">
<PARAM?NAME="Subject"?VALUE="*Replacing the random threads">
<PARAM?NAME="Translation"?VALUE="FALSE">
<PARAM?NAME="UseGraphicText"?VALUE="FALSE">
<PARAM?NAME="Registered"?VALUE="FALSE">
<PARAM?NAME="AutoLogin"?VALUE="TRUE">
<PARAM?NAME="AutoLoginName"?VALUE="{$bbuserinfo[username]}">

Your?browser?does?not?support?Java?applets.
Upgrade?to?a?newer?browser?or?use?the?Options?menu ?to?enable?Java.
You?may?also?use?the?link?below?to?access?the?HTML ?version?of?your?chat?room.
</APPLET>

also, the chat.php page that I created and uploaded to the vb main directory:

<??

require(?"global.php"?);?

if(?$bbuserid?)?{?

$user?=?$DB_site->query_first(?"SELECT?username?

FROM?user?

WHERE?userid?=?$bbuserid"?);?

$bbusername?=?$user[?username?];?

eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('chat_hack')."\");");?

}?else?{?

eval("dooutput(\"".show_nopermission()."\");");?

}?// end if

?>

does anything look worng?

RobAC

08-06-2001, 07:04 PM

Out of curiosity, has this chat room worked for you before incorporating it into this hack?

rockergrrl

08-06-2001, 07:06 PM

Anyone know how I could put what people are in the chatroom in forumhome??

Say under current users...

----
Forum: username, username2
Chat: username, username2
----

etc?

RobAC

08-06-2001, 07:07 PM

Originally posted by rockergrrl
Anyone know how I could put what people are in the chatroom in forumhome??

Say under current users...

----
Forum: username, username2
Chat: username, username2
----

etc?

Nope. I've been wanting to do this for a while. I believe someone has a hack that will work with JIRC only to do just that.

Evoir

08-06-2001, 07:14 PM

Rob,

Well, I have gone to multicity and opened the chat. I clicked on the chatroom and it opens a chat window. I am the only person in it, however.

The weird thing is that chat.php opens a completely blank page. I ahev gone over the steps over and over again. In chat.php, there is just that little bit of code that i wrote above. Is that it? Was there something implied that I am not understanding?

arg.

RobAC

08-06-2001, 07:19 PM

Well, I think your problem is the type of chat room you're running. The code that I'm using, I purchased from Multicity and I see minor differences between your chat room code and mine. My code was made to run on my web site in an html document. All the coding with the hack between your version and my version is exactly the same. The differences I'm seeing lie in the java coding for your chat room.

Evoir

08-06-2001, 07:27 PM

hmmm.

I haven't paid yet casue they offer a free version and I thought I'd try it.

I loaded the chat stuff on an html page and it works just fine:
http://www.curvemag.com/chat.html

It seems like there is something wrong with my chat.php file. :(

RobAC

08-06-2001, 07:34 PM

Let me try something...hold on.

RobAC

08-06-2001, 07:38 PM

I have to be honest with you, I can't find anything wrong. Go here: http://corvetteactioncenter.com/forums/chat2.php

RobAC

08-06-2001, 07:40 PM

Nevermind, you won't be able to enter because you're not a member of my forums. I used my chat.php file and your chat room code and plugged it in and it worked for me. Here is my chat.php file for your reference:

?
require( "global.php" );

if( $bbuserid ) {

$user = $DB_site->query_first( "SELECT username
FROM user
WHERE userid = $bbuserid" );
$bbusername = $user[ username ];
eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('chat2_hack')."\");");
} else {
eval("dooutput(\"".show_nopermission()."\");");
} // end if
?>

Change the chat2_hack to chat_hack

Evoir

08-06-2001, 07:44 PM

I get a big blank page. Is that what you get?

I am able to see the chat via a plain html page, but when I try accessing it through the php file, I get nothing. Even on the above link running on your board. Hmmmph.

RobAC

08-06-2001, 07:46 PM

Nope, I'm in the room right now.

What are you using for a web browser? Version?

RobAC

08-06-2001, 07:49 PM

I get a blank page in Netscape Navigator, but it works in IE. There is definitely a problem with Multicity's code because my forum's chat room runs in Netscape and your's won't and both the the hack coding is the same , but the chat room code that we're using isn't. That's the only thing I can come up with.

Evoir

08-06-2001, 07:49 PM

IE 5 for Mac

also tried it on Netscape 4.7

no luck.
I was able to get into your chat.php room, just no the chat2.php

weird. weird.

Evoir

08-06-2001, 08:35 PM

Makes sense. Thanks for all your help, Rob.
Do you like how multicity works? Is it worth the monthly fee?

RobAC

08-06-2001, 09:38 PM

It's ok, and my members are somewhat happy with it, but I find that it hesitates a lot. All of a sudden it will stall and a ton of messages will appear in the chat window.

rockergrrl

09-01-2001, 01:40 AM

Has anyone's chatroom just stopped working??
Mine has - the applet wont load... it will say done in the status bar - and that's it - just a grey box where the applet should be loaded to...

Or is it me... dunno....

Steve Machol

09-01-2001, 02:07 AM

I just checked mine and it's working fine.

rockergrrl

09-01-2001, 02:11 AM

hmmmm....

I thought it might've been the java conflict with XP, etc on my computer... But I was chatting with one of my members on Messenger tonight, and I made her check..and it wasn't running for her - and he's using Win98.

I don't know why its not working... it was working before... not its not...

*sigh*

JTMON

11-29-2001, 11:12 AM

Any way to get this thread moved to releases? :D

Installed and working great on 2.2.0-

Now if I could just disable that dang disconnect button:D

FWC

11-29-2001, 04:29 PM

Originally posted by JTMON
Any way to get this thread moved to releases? :D

Installed and working great on 2.2.0-

Now if I could just disable that dang disconnect button:D I use this one, too. I like it. :)

JTMON

11-29-2001, 09:23 PM

did you figure a way around the disconnect problem?

FWC

11-29-2001, 09:57 PM

Originally posted by JTMON
did you figure a way around the disconnect problem? I'm not sure what you mean by the disconnect problem. Can you elaborate?

JTMON

11-29-2001, 10:00 PM

Currently, if a user clicks the disconnect button, it will vring them back to a login where they can put any name in they want. I sent a support ticket into the multicity and am waiting to hear if it can be disabled somehow.

FWC

11-29-2001, 10:13 PM

OK, I didn't really worry too much about that because they had to be registered to get in at all. I would also like to be able to disable the invite and view other chat buttons. Let me know what you find out.

JTMON

11-29-2001, 10:16 PM

He posted some code earlier in this thread for the other chats problem. You can change it so it just goes to your homepage :D

FWC

11-29-2001, 10:43 PM

Originally posted by JTMON
He posted some code earlier in this thread for the other chats problem. You can change it so it just goes to your homepage :D I've had it set that way the whole time and it doesn't work. :(

JTMON

11-29-2001, 10:48 PM

I just checked mine and I don't have a view other chat button. I do have the invite one though

FWC

11-29-2001, 10:51 PM

No active chats button? I wish I could say the same. :)

slideboxer

01-16-2002, 05:01 PM

Originally posted by rockergrrl
Has anyone's chatroom just stopped working??
Mine has - the applet wont load... it will say done in the status bar - and that's it - just a grey box where the applet should be loaded to...

Or is it me... dunno....

I'm getting this same problem. Actually, one moment it will work fine. The next it shows the grey box. Any figure this one out?

JTMON

01-16-2002, 05:18 PM

Same issue here, and as an added bonus, I have one user who gets a no permission page yet I don't even use access masks and he's a registered user! :frus:

Steve Machol

01-16-2002, 06:20 PM

Mine stopped working too. What happens is that the page keeps contstantly reloading for some reason. I even downloaded the latest code from chat code Multicity.com but that didn't help.

Dex

01-19-2002, 05:57 AM

I really think this is a great hack. But it's just too easy to log on with a name other than the real VB login.

Did anybody find out how to remove that darn disconnect button yet?

Another thing is that people from somewhere else are dropping in. It says that the chat can be made private in the helpfile pages somewhere, but I wasn't able to find out how. There's no such option available.

Any input would be greatly appreciated !!

Dex