Is there a way to make a left side menu with the flashchat info instead of it at the footer. What coding would I change??

RON

You would need to edit various templates.

Paul, installed this on 3.6.4 with Flashchat 4.7.7.
Worked great. Thanks for the wonderful mod.

1) I have the chat open as a page in VB. What do i have to edit so that the chat window use the same skin/style as the default forum style ?
2) How can i show user's avatar or profile pic when they log in the chat ?

3) Can i create a public chatroom inside FC and let the unregistered, guests in that room only without signup for an account on our forum ?
This would be a nice feature since we have monthly chat with guests and I don't want to force them to sign up. I have installed FC on some part of the site as a stateless chat and no login needed but i want to incorporate one FC installation.

Many thanks. Your mod is top notch.

1. If you mean Flashchat itself then you would need to edit various FlashChat files - I cannot help you with that, you need to visit the Tufat forums.

2. If you mean within FlashChat , you cannot.

3. You cannot do that - integration with any forum software such as vBulletin (a "CMS" in FlashChat talk) prevents guest logins, that's the point of integration.

Any Screens to see?

Nope.

Installed. Thanks Paul excellent and easy to use product. :)

I have a question please.

I would like to be able to integrate with my vb database for members login, but have the chat files (and hence mysql load) on a different database.

Is this possible and how would I do it?

Not possible without customised code (even then it would be a pain). If you want to integrate then you need the use the same database.

Paul I sent you a PM on flashchat so it's up to you how you answer. If you reply to the PM I'll copy the answer here as I know other users are interested having read through a lot of posts here and at tufat.

Please note this is about restricting access but passwords are not the solution. I teach classes for teens: some will delight in handing around a password! so they can gatecrash each others' classes (and disrupt them).
So I need to restrict access to at least some rooms to the students who are members of a class / usergroup.

I need to have at least three rooms (but would like more) where only certain members can go to each room. I have similar access to their own forums, via usergroup on vb, and access permissions were a major reason for choosing vb.

It would be great to config the flashchat integrate mod to carry over the same usergroups as I have on vb. That would be heaven! so a user with e.g. B usergroup can then be allocated access to their own B room, C usergroup can be given access to their own C room etc.

Failing that as I have a small community I could do the flashchat access manually so each room gets a list of its users/
OR each user is allocated one (or more?) of the private rooms.

Thanks for a lovely mod. I think it's a tribute to a great mod that it raises expectations so we want more!

What you want is not really possible - it would require code alterations to the CMS file, the default Flashchat php files and the actual Flash code.

Paul surely this could be expanded to more than one room with different sets of users for each room?

Couldn't we create a type of (fake) moderator that had all other mod privileges disabled except room access to the specific room this group of (fake mod) users is to access?
Just a thought as a workaround. I thought something like that might be possible when I saw the list of user types in the code. Where does that list of types derive from? The vb database?
Or could I edit it to make extra numbered users that could be made to match a room ID?

Thing is vb users often choose vb because we like the permissions system so it's a big thing to have it all stripped away. A bit of basic privacy would be so great.

OK. Fine. How much?

Not without major code changes.

Flashchat is not part of vbulletin, it only has a very basic permissions setup (users, mods, admins) - room security is passwords only.

It doesn't work like that. I don't do custom work anymore (and even if I did, I don't do Flash programming) :cool:

Just a simple question, where and how do you manage usergroup?

Top of the [vbulletin] CMS file.

Paul,

I installed this hack, but the automatic login of members are not working. Is there anything that I should look at in the cms file?

When you have flaschat embedded in your forum window (not open a new window), Search and Quicklink dropout menus got clipped at the top of the chat window.

Any fix on how to get fully open dropout menu while chat is open ?

Nope, no one has found a way to stop that.

Silly question. I bought and installed FlashChat today, it is working fine. Is there a reason I need to use this hack for anything?

Just if you want it integrated with vBulletin so members don't need a separate user name and password, have to login separately, and things like that.

Read the main post.

Paul first I would like to thank you for this hack
Second I have A problem maybe you could help me with.
I installed the flach chat first and it worked i was able to log in manually with my user name and pass now I installed the hack and its not working
I checked all of the following twice
I edit the CMS file to give all the proper groups permission to use the chat.
Im using vb 3.6.4 vb and 4.7.7 flash chat.
I installed Flashchat in your forum root folder.
And i used your latest version of the CMS file.

but no mater wich way I go to the flash chat it ask me to log in and when i try it says incorect user name or password.
any I deal what the problem could be? I would asume the flash chat is installed properly cause i was able to log in as an admin befor i installed the hack.

Doesn't sound like it was working ok to start with - otherwise you would not get a login screen, you would log in automatically.

In the Flashchat config.php, what do you have in the CMSsystem setting.

what i ment is when i installed just flash chat i could log in using my info after i did the hack i couldent lol


thanks again paul im sure you have enought dummies braking your %3&@

It should be this ;

thank paul
you have a donate address for pp?

I believe "vbhacks at marsden-family.com" works.

Thats ok, were removing FlashChat. Slow to no responses on programs main website forum and our CMS is saying that it has vulnerabilities, plus this:

http://securitydot.net/xpl/exploits/...0/exploit.html

Seems too risky for me :(

I found this in another thread

Well it makes no difference to me, Flashchat isn't mine, but you really should make the effort to read what you link to. :cool:

That exploit is ancient, the date is in the title, as is the fact it was for versions < 4.5.7 (the current version is 4.7.7)

(and although it's not mentioned in that post, it was only exploitable if you a) left all the CMS files on the server and b) you had "register globals" enabled in php. The latter of those is a security risk in php itself).

What does this mod do ? When I tried it out, it did nothing for me.

I may be installing it wrong, will try again, but unclear what it is suppose to do.

I would say the main thing is it logs you in automaticly when you go to the chat room.

Please read the first post, it tells you what this adds.

hi,

unfortunately I cannot find an explanation für vbulletin 3.6.4 how to produce a link in the navbar at the top. Can anyone help?

many thanks in advance

mikoo

well i would go edit the navbar and put somthing like this in there
Note: My site is in a folder called vb if yours is named forum you would put it wher is says vb if its not in a folder just put /misc.php.......

hope this helps

Unless you have a specific reason to, then just use misc.php (not any foldernames or slashes)

So, a few min after I clicked install, someone tried to use the misc.php?do=flashchat. I hadn't done anything to add it to a template. Did that come from the WOL display?

Possibly, but more likely from this ;

Excellent mod... thanks for the hard work!

Is there an easy way to hide the FlashChat quick link from everyone but moderators?

I've managed to block them from being able to chat, but they can still see the link to the chat client.

Thanks in advance for your help.