the only bad thing about raidersoft is that you have to pay to beable to administer the chat room. I can't kick anyone! $75/yr is waaaaaaaaay too much

I imagine this hack isn't compatible with a mIRC chat?

I'm totally mIRC ignorant :(

I have been using this chat very successfully on one board that I run, but have just started another one and am having a slight problem :(

Basically the chat page opens in a new window (via target="_blank"), but the chat section seems to load TWICE on the same page.

Loads the header etc for the page, then the chatroom app, then the header again, and the chatroom again, then the footer.

The odd thing is, if you press F5 (or refresh) then the page loads normally.

Any ideas on what's causing this??

Well, that's pretty odd.
You might want to check on your templates. I cant think of anything else that would cause this. Is it possible you made a custom template and added "$forumchat" twice? Or something in that direction...
Might also be interesting to see the source code of the page, before it loads header and chat the second time.

wot-Mike: IS there a status update on the who's online? I just got PLatinum and this would be a great add on.

Derek

It's taking ages huh :(

Well, simply put, I had a who's online thingie of my own, but it was so similar to the one GeorgeofCS wrote that I've sort of adopted his version to avoid confusion and such. With his permission, so no worries about that. And with the exception of invisible users. When you're in chat you're visible, so why bother to keep invisibility settings into account ;)

I had another type of Who's Online as well, based on a "switch" inside the database, but there are too many if's with that one.

Ok, the new chat thingie I have right now isn't finished. I've got it up and running on some site though, and it's working like it should. BUT, it's for Raidersoft's Platinum chat (user authentication). And umm, it's really for a future version of Platinum chat (newer then 7.1), if I'm anticipating things right I mean ...

I can dig around and see if I've still got a modified 1.4 version around, with the Who's Online in it. Unfortunately I'm a sloppy person, and I think I need to adjust template names. I seem to use diferent ones for each chat hack I make. Also, I may need a Profesional chat test board to get it installed and see if it's working like it should. I really haven't looked at it for quite a while, and what I have now is picked up from left overs left and right.
It DOES require some changes to your database.

GREAT hack. My users are raving! The Who's Chatting will be nice, but take your time...

<~~ Ready to start begging.

wot-Mike,

I just wanted to say Thank you on behalf of us here at RaiderSoft. Your script is great!! Please e-mail us the next version so we can put it on on our site as well if you wouldn't mind.

Also, I wanted to let everyone know that we've just completed a script that will allow you to authenticate access to your chat room via your vBulletin database. You'll need the Platinum level service, and this script:

http://www.sigmachat.com/panel/extras/auth_vb230.zip

Once you have it installed, users who belong to groups with posting privileges will be allowed in the chat, and users who belong to groups with moderating privileges will be admin's within the chat room.

We've also developed a real-time Who's Online module that could be incorporated into vBulletin with a little work. The module is still fairly expensive (1/10th of a cent per hit) but should ease up soon.

Have installed this hack for SigmaChat but don't have the 'chat' link on our Forum Home Page.

- Edited chat.php and uploaded it into the root directory
- Added the templates into the Default set (which is currently still in use!) :disappointed:

Any common mistakes/misunderstandings over the instructions that I could have made?

ok, I bought the platinum addition and I can't get the auto login feature to work.
Please help me out, where do I set that?
Here is what I am calling from the chatbit template

<applet
codebase="http://client.sigmachat.com/current/"
code="Client.class" archive="scclient_en.zip"
width=700 height=400 MAYSCRIPT>
<param name="room" value="xxxxxx">
<param name="cabbase" value="scclient_en.cab">
<param name="username" value="$USERNAME">
<param name="password" value="$PASSWORD">
<param name="autologin" value="yes"
</applet>

And it always says invalid username & password, even though I am logged into my board.

Anybody have any ideas?

What problems are you having? Try re-uploading chat.php in ASCII mode. I hade a problem at first and that fixed it.

How much is the registered version and where is the info about it?

I assume that you've changed the x's in this line:

<param name="room" value="xxxxxx">

to the id of your chat room?

And thanks for the tip. Will try that one out later! ;)

yeah, the auto login doesn't work for me either. what happens is it displays the username of the user in the "name" field, but they can change it before they click login.

thats just wrong.

Well I am using the authorization script from Raidersoft so users still have to login as themselves and can't login in as anybody else unless they have the correct information, but I would really love the autologin feature to work.

Anybody have any ideas?

Absolutely fantastic!

Works like a charm :nervous:

I followed your example and got a raidersoft platinum chatroom. This is way better than phpMyChat and doesn't eat your bandwidth.

Anyone using Sigmachat beware. There is an easy way to get two usernames in the chat even when you do have auto-login enabled.

Try this and you will see...

Here it is...

1) You auto-log in to the chat room using this embedded chat script.
2) You then open a new browser window
3) The 2nd chat window auto-logs you in again and kicks the first user (as it's a duplicate)
4) The 1st user is kicked to the login page! Which just loads and sits there.
5) The 1st user then chooses another name and clicks login
6) You now have 2 users who are the same person!

To solve this:

Go to your SigmatChat control panel > URL Settings > and set an Exit URL

:)

Any way to get the raidersoft ice to auto login?

Does anyone else get the problem of being asked to logon again?

- log on to Forums via home page
- select Chat from list and am redirected to logon page
- chat opens and have to logon to chat

Can't be right???

Has there been any progress on finding a solution for the chat page not loading?

Is this hack dead or am I just the only one that is having this problem? :disappointed:

I would like to have all the features of the paid version, but not if the free one won't work.

Does jPilot work better?

SVTBL01,
I have used jPilot but I don't like all the IRC issues.. Slow load times, keeping people out of the rooms, and making sure the members know how to do things in it..

If this is still working, I definitely recommend it.

It works fine at home, but I have tried it on a few other computers, and I had issues with it loading like were mentioned eariler in the thread. I didn't see anywhere that this issue had been solved. It would be great to get it working for everyone. It would be a great chat solution for my site, especially since it doesn't eat up your bandwidth.

Has anyone updated this to work with vBulletin v3 Gamma?

Thanks

I have been trying to get sigmachat to work with vb3 for about 2 weeks, but no luck so far. I am trying to use the vb3 authentication script but it just says invalid username & password when you try and login.

Loved the hack!!!!!!

*** Clicks Install ***

Went with SigmaChat, and everything worked just fine.

Puchased Plat service for vB tie-in. However, as soon as I tried to tie into my bulletin board database everything fails. I cannot seem to get the supplied script to correctly access the db and react properly.

vBulletin Version 2.3.2
VBPortal 3.0b
www.chelicera.com/forums

scauth.php been uploaded into both www.chelicera.com/forums/admin and www.chelicera.com/forums/uploads, copied the config.php file over to /uploads, and tried setting the file path in chat admin to both URLs with no success.

Every time I tried to test the scauth.php file I get the output of "0"

CHMOD was even set for RWXRWXRWX just in case that was the problem.

Someone told me gZip can affect things, is vB configured to OFF, as far as I know my server does NOT gZip either.

Can anyone help me troubleshoot things?

For those of you on VB3...

I've just posted a hack which works with VB3 and Sigma Chat. It's basic but works for me :)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=61238

If you have any questions reply to that thread not this one!

I see this is an old one but in case you didn't notice under autologin you forgot to close the bracket.

Wow this hack is awesome! I've tried prolly 8 other chat solutions, including one with RealChat which was $500, and this one is by far the easiest and best hack IMO. Well done!!

www.SouthFloridaRacing.com/forums and the hack can be seen at
www.SouthFloridaRacing.com/forums/chat if you login.

Thanks again!
SR

Brilliant hack, thankyou :)
*clicks install*

Now if someone can just integrate this chat with VBulletin.
http://www.sizefetish.com:1235/docs/index.html

Once in the chat room, click EXTRA in the top menu and UPLOAD MEDIA. Upload a pic and see why this chat room is better than anything else on the market.

What is the "Authentication URL" that I should use with SigmaChat Enterprise Level? I have vb 2.2.9

thx

setup exactly as described.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function show_nopermission() in E:\Data\CW\airmech_vb_051005\forums\chat.php on line 49

VBulletin 3.5 on PHP5 on IIS6

Well this is a hack for vB2, so it will 100% not work for vB3.5.

Even trying it, is risking your board.

I just upgraded from vBulleting 3.5.3 to 3.5.4.. I had sigma chat imbedded in the forum (sigma chat platinum) with the 'Chat' link in the navbar (had the drop dow to open chat room in window/float it/see who's chatting) unfortunately I did this upgrade at 2am when my brain is fuzzy but my board was clear of members. The upgrade went fine until i finished and had some templates vB asked if I wanted to revert. I accidentally (big mistake) reverted the navbar template! And my 'chat' link is gone.... also the <----!Sigma Chat----> code that was in two places that i remember in that template are gone.

any help to get it back would be appreciated.... I can't remember how I put the code nor where i got the code that was in there at this point....
my board members are supposed to have a 'scheduled chat' on 2/22 at 8pm US Eastern time...HELP!