Those sound like the instructions for their free Lite version. With no vbulletin integration, it's just a standalone app.

Unless their installer is smart enough to actually edit vbulletin files itself, which seems unlikely.

Well it pretty much is a stand alone app. It just reads off your database...

edit..then I'm sure they have your forum wrap around it..

The instructions are in a members only area which you get access too once you have brought the software. The integration is very very simple and the guides are very helpful.

addonchat was just installed on my forum, cost me $120 but only took about 3 minutes to install, very impressed so far, best thing is its hosted elsewhere so not eating my bandwidth either!

Let's not mislead. That's a yearly charge, not a one time charge.

i agree with the folks who are suggesting "Blab Chat"... in my opinion, it's the best PHP chat script out there... i've been using this script for the last 3 years.

They just released "Blab IM" and it's simply amazing script! i'm seriously thinking of upgrading to Blab IM Pro... it's just a nice piece of script!

You guys should try it! There's a demo and +

http://hot-things.net/blab-im-ajax-php-messenger

blabim seems interesting, but can it cope with 300 concurrent chatters?

i don't think any PHP/MYSQL script can cope with 300 concurrent users on a shared host...it's just too much.

If you have 300 users, then i suggest you go with either a JAVA chat application or ,even better, a hosting company that is managing all the server load for you, something like http://www.123flashchat.com/ ... be prepared to spend some money... this stuff is expensive.

Im not willing to use hosted chat. I would like to host it myself. Suggestions are more than welcome.

I posted a more elaborate comparison on Wayne Luke's vbcodex: A comparison of Dedicated Chat Solutions