Well a seperate table for rooms for people modifying this chat system would be a lot easier for them, however it means extra queries, and i push myself to the limit when it come's to reducing server strain to a minimal, this chat system is extremely optomized and i have yet to see it crash my server, or even make it a little slower. So unfortunatly the serialized array will stay in place, you can still do everything, but it does make things a little more difficult.

Admin's are allowed to dis-allow usergroups from accessing certain rooms? Sounds good to me, i'm guessing as default any rooms created by members would be accessible by all? If so it sounds good, i may wait untill v2.3 for that though.

The issue with that is very easy to fix, i'll just make it so when a room is deleted via ACP or the auto prune, it just prunes that room's messages with it :)

Changing straight to chat room, sounds good to me, no need to change the program, notice that if "nojoin=1" is within the URL, the message to say they have joined will not occur :)

Permanent change in ACP control, yes that should of been in, it completely escaped my mind. I'll do that for v2.2

A change log, hmm, i sometimes change the same thing 3 or more time's, i think what would be better is a program to differentiate the differences between the 2 files, many use it on here to see what changes vBulletin made to upgrade to the newest version, one program i know of is here: http://www.araxis.com/, or if you want the direct .exe file link: http://www.araxis.net/files/merge60_win32_evl.exe
I hope that will help you, i believe it would make things easier for you and me in that respect :)

Time to start on v2.2 i believe...

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Thanks for the link. Is there an automated install script? When I say that, I mean I see many hacks released with an automated installer. Is there a script available that will allow me to release any hack/add-on I create to have an automated installer? It would make things much easier than your normal text install. I know about the HTL and HIS, however I was looking more for the type of install script that you (and many others) use.

Sorry but i don't use automatic installers, or like them, i prefer to do things manually, since automatic installers can sometimes cause problems.
If you desire to release a 3rd party automatic installer for this script then feel free, i'll add it to the available addons section :)

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I agree with you, you are right, it's better. Now, when is that private tutoring class you promised me on the use of serialized columns? LoL

Rooms created by non-admins/mod/supermods are accessible to all, unless a password is set, in which case they are accessible to all who know the password. But in Permanent rooms (which can only be created by the staff), I would suggest a way to define NOT which groups CANNOT go in, but which groups are allowed to go in.

And then I 'll have to copy your code to my log out routine, so that the contents of a room are deleted when the last user logs out of that room, as well. Perfect!

Ah! Grasshoper, now I see it! LoL

I'll be looking forward to it.

Tell me about it! Files is not an issue, I use Beyond Compare for that. The bloody templates is what bothers me. You have to save them in files, and then compare them. And since you use the installer, I have to copy them from the XML file and copy the ones from the database and then compare. Ah, don't worry about it. I'll find my way, as long as you do not issue as many upgrades as I used to issue with AWS (1-2 a day!! LoL).

What? It's not out yet? So last night you were at the local pub instead of coding???

:-)

in firefox the vbchat shows up perfectly, but in IE its like 10-15 times too wide for the screen?

please help, as most of my users use IE.

V2.2 is been released later today which will fix the bug where the window is too big :)

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Ok thanks

Just so every knows, especially sv1cec, i'm not sat on my ass doing nothing, i've attathed a preview below.

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Version 2.2 has been released, enjoy everyone!

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Thanks, ZT! :)