Apologies if not understanding this correctly, but is this for a standaline vb 3.5.x install, or must it be part of a CMS install on top of vB 3.5.x??

This is for any installation of vb 3.5, any reference to CMS is flashchats way of referring to vbulletin.

I've been fighting with Flashchat and my windows server for a long time now - finally, I get it to work, but I have a couple of quick questions (questions that I might be able to find if I read through all 27 pages of this thread, but I'm asking for someone to throw me a bone, please?)

I've uploaded the php file to the correct CMSES folder and also imported the plugin to vBulletin through the Add/Import product.

1) What does the plugin do exactly? After I've installed it, I still have to tell flashchat to log me in (by either clicking the auto-login button or entering my login info.) I'm running the latest flashchat at v4.4.2 and v3.5.1 of vB - am I missing something?

2) Shouldn't my users be able to login automatically? So if I create a menu item at http://forum.opiophile.org/chat - shouldn't they log in right from there, without having to enter in additional info?

Thanks for any help....

If you have to log in then you have an error in the integration somewhere.

I'm not sure that gives me much to go on. How can I check if the integration went through or not? It looks as if my users are able to login and use the chat using the link below - is there something from the plugin that I'm missing? (what's the expected result of adding the plugin?)

It appears that I can create a menu item linking to http://forum.opiophile.org/chat/flashchat.php and I'm able to login with a click - this must be the way it's supposed to work? (Rather than going to /chat and expecting an auto-login?)

Thanks....!

Like the first post says ;

* Authorised members to be automatically logged in.
* Automatic login now works even if a member has not ticked "remember me".

If users are not automatically logged in then the integration is broken.

The plugin is purely for the WOL display, nothing else.

* If enabled, the users location is now displayed in WOL (use the plugin to avoid "Unknown Location").

When you installed flashchat you should have ticked the CMS integration box and then chosen vBulletin 3.5. If you did not do this then it is not integrated (and auto-login will not happen) You can easliy test this by logging in as any username you like, with any password you like.

What's does WOL mean? Wake on Lan?

Using the link I supplied above, users are logged in regardless of whether or not your plugin was enabled. In fact, all I did was go through the install process provided by Flashchat and then clicked './chat/flashchat.php' to auto-login. My problem was when I was simply going to ./chat (not adding the flashchat.php then asks for login information.)

I guess I'm more or less trying to figure out what you're plugin does...? I've modified my templates to auto-tick the remember-me box - so is that it?

WOL = Who's OnLine (display) :)

Like I just told you, the plugin is purely for the WOL display, nothing else.

Yes, that is the correct path for autologin, I'm a bit confused by your statements, are you saying that does autologin, or doesn't ?

That's not a problem, that's by design. That page is supposed to show a login screen. You would not normally link to it.

All is well here, except the "Live Support" mode of FlashChat is not working. I have done everyting right per the FlashChat instructions. I think the CMS file is missing something about "customer roles" whatever that is. ... ??? I am using your VBulletin35CMS.php file. But I see others are having problems with the one that comes with FlashChat. So maybe you're not the right person to ask?

A suggestion for others: Edit config.php to cause a logout from FlashChat to return you directly to your VB forum home page instead of displaying the login box (comments removed):

//---
//Logout behavior
'logout' => array(
'close' => true,
'redirect' => true,
'url' => 'http://xxx.yyy.com/forum/index.php',
'window' => '_self',
),

Hmmm... i have no problems with this integration. Works great on our board. :nervous: