An awesome add-on chat w/ vbulletin integration.....only $5!

[Silver740]

I've just added this on my site a few days ago. This is the best bang for the buck chat program! I don't like the java based programs because they're too slow and have a huge lag. This one seems to be faster and much more user friendly. You can share files, send instant messages, etc.

The name of the program is called FlashChat. It comes with VERY good instructions on how to integrate it w/ your vbulletin member base. All current moderators/admins are automatically moderators of the chat and all current members are automatically given access. Took me all of maybe 10-15 min. to set it up and the positive replies keep on coming!

Wish the following was a little bigger because it'd be a great base for additional hacks.

http://www.tufat.com/script.php?id_num=2 <--- FlashChat Program

My website is http://www.euroteknik.com/forum but you will have to be a registered user to see the "Chat Lounge" link on the navbar.

[Michael Morris]

Let's see if I can beat Zach to the close command :P

[Dean C]

Moved to General Modification Discussion :)

[MPDev]

I use it and my members love it.

[Dean C]

I had a play around with this chat room for a client all but a couple of weeks ago now. It works but I found it absolutely useless really. The instructions for vB integration work, but it's very loose. There's no instructions on how to integrate it into your forum layout, and as far as skinning I could only find documentation on how to change colors. In the end myself and my client settled with SigmaChat :)

[MPDev]

I used SigmaChat, but had alot of users complaining about the Java not working. The flash experience of FlashChat is nice and the cost is downright amazing.

[royals]

installed it today and it is awesome!

[nerveshock]

Yep I may be looking into getting it myself. You really can't beat $5 and the client is pretty decent. On top of that I know basic flash and customization should be easy for me. I would say it's great piece of software to start off with, but I personally don't know how it handles large traffic.

I don't want to use SigmaChat since some people's FireFox browser is crashing. Also I don't think it's worth it at the moment compared to getting a free IRC channel and a Java Client to connect to it. Also with IRC there are bots that can post who is currently in chats like Sigma, but unlike Sigma anyone can join an IRC channel member or not. Unless someone has a bot for such a task to monitor people.

For $5 I'll mod it and give it a try. It looks like it's also possible with some mod to display who is in chats on your forum aswell.

Just my 2 cents unless you guys know of a better alternative.

[pcoskat]

has anyone integrated FlashChat into 3.0.7?

[Bounce]

has anyone integrated FlashChat into 3.0.7?


yes and it worked brilliantly until my host removed it for server load :disappointed:

I am now looking at IRC

[pcoskat]

hmmm, don't like the sound of that...

How many people would you have in the room at one time?

[Talisman]

Silver740, you might be interested in glancing through some of these related threads for FlashChat. There's alot already here.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/search.php?searchid=1114544

[camoman]

I integrated in vb 3.0.3 and upgraded to 3.0.7 at which point it broke :( When it loads all I get is a blue screen now.. Does anyone know what could be wrong?? here is the erros I reciove in my httpd logs:

Thu Mar 24 10:58:17 2005] [error] PHP Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home2/camoman/public_html/forum/FlashChat/inc/classes/chatServer.php on line 64
[Thu Mar 24 10:58:17 2005] [error] PHP Warning: fflush(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home2/camoman/public_html/forum/FlashChat/inc/classes/chatServer.php on line 63
[Thu Mar 24 10:58:17 2005] [error] PHP Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home2/camoman/public_html/forum/FlashChat/inc/classes/chatServer.php on line 61
[Thu Mar 24 10:58:17 2005] [error] PHP Warning: fopen(./appdata/appTime.txt): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home2/camoman/public_html/forum/FlashChat/inc/classes/chatServer.php on line 60
[Thu Mar 24 10:58:17 2005] [error] PHP Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home2/camoman/public_html/forum/FlashChat/inc/classes/chatServer.php on line 64
[Thu Mar 24 10:58:17 2005] [error] PHP Warning: fflush(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home2/camoman/public_html/forum/FlashChat/inc/classes/chatServer.php on line 63
[Thu Mar 24 10:58:17 2005] [error] PHP Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home2/camoman/public_html/forum/FlashChat/inc/classes/chatServer.php on line 61

[Bounce]

hmmm, don't like the sound of that...

How many people would you have in the room at one time?

At the time they barred it we had 30 users in chat :nervous:

[PhotoGenie]

This is a good chat program.. The only trouble I've had with the whole integration into VB is members closing the browser instead of logging out. They stay logged in when they do this. If you have members in chat showing on your main page they show as logged in until logged out. It would be nice if it would time out and log you out of chat like your logged out of vbulletin. Other than that its great! I'm using this on my site now.

[Paul M]

This is a good chat program.. The only trouble I've had with the whole integration into VB is members closing the browser instead of logging out. They stay logged in when they do this. If you have members in chat showing on your main page they show as logged in until logged out. It would be nice if it would time out and log you out of chat like your logged out of vbulletin. Other than that its great! I'm using this on my site now.Firstly you can add wording to the little red logout button so it says "Press to Log Out" (or similar) - making it much more obvious.

Secondly you can set the appropiate timeout so that if the user stops responding they are logged out automatically - I have mine at about 120 seconds I think (there is still one problem with this, it fails if they are the last person in the chat - until someone else logs in). You could probably cure this with a custom cron job.

[Kaelon]

Stay far away from this chat room, if you know what's good for you. The coding is inherently faulty - it constantly writes to simple text files, which add a tremendous amount of load to your server. The practical "cap" for this chat room is around 20-30 users, after which time, your system will begin to buckle under the pressure and you'll begin to receive many errors.

[Sheela]

Stay far away from this chat room, if you know what's good for you. The coding is inherently faulty - it constantly writes to simple text files, which add a tremendous amount of load to your server. The practical "cap" for this chat room is around 20-30 users, after which time, your system will begin to buckle under the pressure and you'll begin to receive many errors.

Kaelon - can you recommend another chat that integrates well into VBulletin (3.6.0) and is less load on the server?

[Ntfu2]

i never had that problem with it, and we saw upto 75 users in there at a time.