[AJAX] EWT Chat 3.0.1 Lite
 

This is a php/mySQL powered chat system.

EWT Chat 3.0.0 Lite Changes
-Complete Recode
-Enhanced ajax which performs much faster and should allow for an additional load of 500% compared to the last release of 2.9.x
-Many changes to everything
-Remove private message system for now
-Remove /cmds besides /me for now

EWT Chat 3.0.01 Lite Changes
-Redid layout and javascript for planned changes to the pro side and to make things look cleaner.
-fixed various little things.

Whats the difference between pro and lite?
Lite:
The lite version supports only one chat room with no ability to create custom rooms.
It doesnt have any user preferences anymore either.
Basic yet functional chatroom without advanced features

Pro: (Still being developed)
Ability to create custom and private rooms
Plus many more things soon to come.

I think this release fixes every reported bug that I have read about.




Version 2.9.x to 3.0.0 Upgrade Steps:
Upload all the files
Upload the product file
Delete any old files from the previous versions
Disable the minichat addon if you have it for now as it wont work with v3 just yet until I release an updated version.
Open up the fresh install readme and follow the steps for editing ajax_chat.php (just a few settings I didnt feel we needed to use a query for)


2.9.1 to 2.9.2 Upgrade Steps:
Open up template navbar find:
Replace with:
Demo:
http://www.extremewebtech.com/forums/chat.php
User/Password: test2323 / test2323


Please if you use this hack click install and feel free to donate to help support the future development of this system.


V3 is a highlight release for this product as it runs and performs much faster then ever before and can now handle a considerable amt of load.

This chat script should technically be able to support 1k+ users on a good high end server.


Pro Version Information Can Be Found Here: http://www.extremewebtech.com/forums...305-ewt-vbchat

Thanks for porting the greatest chat hack ever to 3.6, Tim. And thanks to Zero Tolerance for the original code as well. I have been waiting for this sucker and now it's finally here! :D

I'm also the co-author and a supporter of this hack so if you have any other suggestions or ideas on your mind to make this hack even better, feel free to share them below.

thanks, i was looking for this.

This hack is amazing.

Cool, I'm gonna try this out.

Is this a port of vBChat from ZT?

nevermind I read the thread

Right now its a rough port of that code it looks like.

Yes, it is a port of vBChat by ZT but Tim and I are going to add a couple of new major features and additions to this hack so stay tuned. ;)

Cool.

Working fine so far, but smilies and bbcode are not parsing for me.

ok so there are so many people raving about this chat, what makes it sooooo good?

Yeah I have noticed that already though HTML codes seems to be parsing just fine. I'll look into that soon and inform Tim about it.

Because there aren't any good chat rooms out there for vBulletin and the fact that vBChat is definitely much better to use than vBShout. How come, you ask? Because of the server loads and all? Haven't you heard or read the complains about that hack lately?

You need custom WOL location too.

Why's that? Are you saying it doesn't show up whether you're in the chat room or not while viewing the online list?

Yeah Who's Online shows unknown location.

Also adding WOL support would be useful if someone wants to release a "who's chatting" mod.

Alright, I'll take a note about that and fix it. I'm not sure about the "Who's Chatting" feature but I'll mention that to Tim. It's all up to him, you know.

No problem. I'm not asking for a "who's chatting" feature, I might do it myself.

The install.txt file has some issues, it says "Step 4" when there are no steps 3/2/1, also it doesn't say that you have to upload the files, just a heads up, you'll get support questions on that in no time.

Ok got it installed backend seems to work but when I got to the URL I get:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/stuntusa/public_html/forums/vBChat.php on line 224

You can also see the error here http://www.stuntusa.com/forums/vBChat.php?

I must have missed something simple as I have installed lots of mods, any ideas what I might have missed?

Are you sure that you uploaded all the new files?

Whos chatting will be coming soon. Right now I didnt spend the time to make it since I am going to release it as an addon for those who wish to use it.

Html parsing was fixed before the hack was ever released. The bbcode and smilies is my bad I forgot to setup the new bbcode parser stuff for 3.6.

amazing job!

The easiest hack I've ever installed ... *CLICKS INSTALL* I think I am going to like vB3 a lot more then vB2. One quick question though.

How do I delete "Default Room" ? I can't find an option to do so. Or How I edit it's name?

I couldn't find it in the admincp or the main options.

Thanks again for the amazing hack.

Edit: I was also wondering if you could tell me how to make it so I can restrict each room to different user groups? It doesn't have to be coded amazingly. Just a basic way of doing it. (I don't need it as an option on the user groups, if I could just put it in the hard code that would work.)

Ok so I noticed on the demo site that you have the shoutbox installed and the chat? I assume that is ok having both installed at the same time? I hope it is I'm downloading this and waiting for a reply to install....

Thanks

yes you can run both together just fine.

I have installed the chat and everything is perfect except: I am not getting your image, (powered by VB Chat in the room and the smiles are not imaging in the board and all of the BB codes are activated. Could I have forgot something? I know that I uploaded the image, I uploaded to: /images/misc ! Was that the right place to put it?

am confuse with the instruction specially for the chron.

i get this

Please Complete All Required Fields

Will you be including an archive of former posts? It's a pretty central feature in my opinion...

I am currently looking for people who have some free time tonight and would like to help me test and work on v2.6. Since I am working on it right now to get rid of the page reload using ajax.

If you are interested show up in the chat demo and let me know. Since I am currently using the demo as my dev site.

This is the file I have so far of 2.6 where I have fixed a few issues already such as the smilies and bbcode not parsing.

The demo site may be going down for a while as I am contemplating moving it over to ajax in a bit.

Right now I am hard at work cleaning up the core of the system to optimize it and get things running smoother.

Thank you! :)

I missed you in the chat So I thought I would chime in here. Let me know I'll be around

Great Job, dude

1- how about adding an option that can let the admin to choose which group can create a new room and who can't , it will be great

2- an option that can allow the admin to turn on and off the private msgin

thanx alot

Installed.
Minimal issues. Most are likely to be because of my heavily hacked and styled board.
Would love to see the chat template centered in some way, as opposed the the full page view now.
Stunning work, eXtreme:)

I have worked everything out but I cannot get the smiles to work!! I notice that the smiles in your test board do not work either, is this a bug?? And yes, everything is activated and installed correctly!!

How about the ability to set usergroup access?

For example:
I don't want Registered Users (Primary Usergroup) to have access but I want my VIP Members(Secondary Usergroup) to have access. And deny permissions to other Usergroups as right now all usergroups have access and the "usergroup banning" is not in the AdminCP.

Also, set the ability for only Admins to create rooms and the ability to rename the "default" room.

Oh, INSTALLED

two questions....

I never used the vbchat by ZT because of the server load issues i always heard about...does this version fix the server load issues?

Also...where is the link to the shoutbox that works with this? (i don't see it in 3.6 forums...but i may be blind)...you don't have to answer this question...but i thought i'd ask since you said you had it installed :D

Most of that is already planned. :)

I am already hard at work on optimizing the load issues to make this hack server friendly.

I see in your code right now you have usergroup control over creating new rooms and a usergroup column in the DB but no interface in the CP to impliment. can a quick patch for that be released? this way, yea, all people can access it but i wont have 16K members creating their own chat rooms. only the vips.

if not, how can i serialize a usergroup value for that column so i can just go into my database and add it?

I am currently working hard to move the chat system over to using the vbulletin options and usergroup controls instead of its custom system to free up 2-3 queries per page load. Thus why I have the usergroup stuff disabled right now. Since i never finished porting it since I was remaking it.

sounds good. any idea of when the next release would be? i have this installed on my board, but turned off pending usergroup release.

OOH, it's not overloaded with Bells and whistles, I like that. Hope you keep working on it, I like it. Installed easily to!

I want to get 2.6 out in the next few days.