Digital Point Chat
 

About
This is a simple, pseudo realtime chat system for vBulletin 4.

I tossed this together today real quick as a test of something and figured that people might have some use for it.

Installation

• Put the chat.php file in your forum folder.
• Put the digitalpoint_chat.js file in your clientscript folder.
• Install the product-dp_chat.xml product under AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product

You can find setting for it under AdminCP -> Options -> Settings -> Digital Point Chat

It has full unicode support so non-latin based languages work as well.

Very nice!

Excellent mod.

Great mod, just what I wanted

I knew someone would ask for a vBulletin 3 version, so I 'backported' this with Shawn's (digitalpoint) permission :)

it's attached. I made some minor graphical tweaks, so when you install it will look different to the screenshot (No black lines anymore), and I make NO guarantee or warranty with this, if your forums blow up because of it, this disclaimer makes me blameless (I'm not saying your forum will blow up)


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What sort of load will this type chat use up on the hosts end????
Looks good will give it a whirl today and see what the user think of it!
Thanks

Any particular benefit/difference between this and some of the other shoutbox mods out there or is this just an alternative?

nice. works on 4.0.7 are there any mod controls? to say kick scrollers and trolls?

That?s a very interesting point.

Not much, but there are settings to adjust how often it polls.

No idea, never looked at any others.

Already on the to-do list for future.

Cheers DigitalPoint

Anyway to put this chat in a subforum instead of forumhome ect.... I will like to have a chat in the administrador section but i havent seen one yet in vb.org with those essentials or tools

Being able to break it apart into private chats (future version I mentioned before), will also have the ability to have separate public chats that are isolated (for example one for each sub-forum if you wanted).

Come in very handy when that version is released mate Great work

WoW thank you bro, cant wait for that version to be released, you have gain a Donator for sure. :)

Is there anyway to display this chat board on another site?

Thanks :)

Would also LOVE this, if we could throw it in the forum sidebar in a block. Any easy way to do so?

Not in it's current for... but as I mentioned, I have a pretty big to-do list for a future version.

One function that would be a life saver is to let users report chats. The report would then be auto-posted in the post report forum, similar to other vbulletin reports. It would be nice if the report would link to the chat log.

thnx Shawn ..

So is this thing going to be well optimized (and not a resource hog)... or is that something on the to do list for a future version?

It shouldn't be a resource hog at all. Ran some test with over 1,000 people in the chat and couldn't tell the difference as far as server loads.

Sorry did'nt see the answer but is there a way to show this just inside a forum section or is it only the forum homepage for now?

When i install this mod i got a error like this .....

how can i fix it ?

You are using an old version of vBulletin I assume? That was a bug they fixed in vBulletin itself.

ohh i am using Vb- 4.0.7

Thanks for this Shawn.
I do not see it in any of my nav bars. How do I get it there?
Thanks again.

Hello Shawn,

i have installed this mod, but nothing is display in the chat window. The installation was succesful, the submitted text is store in the table, the chat window is empty ...

I'am use 4.08 and standard template.

Edit: in Line 90 in your chat.php is "AS customavar" is missing ... (database error). German umlauts not displayed ... Please fix it.

Got an error :(

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Btw, you already have Great reputation in SE, so why you still have Chat system by Digital Point ? :P

What does it say the actual error is with the query.

It was db connection error.
I reinstalled the mod, worked fine. Thanks :D

Moreover, you could have made the Chat in the Forum bar.

like Home, Forum, Chat, What's New ?

Btw, Is it legal to remove copyright ?

You can add a link to the navbar for it if you want. Just didn't seem important enough to do it by default is all. You can not remove copyright, sorry.

Install it! Great :)

Thanks for the reply. One more question(definitely the LAST one)

"Can we the time display(currently near the username) to the end ?
If no, pls add this in the notes for your future update :) "

Installed, Thank you Shawn!:)

I have tried everything and it is just blank and will not add any text. Any ideas please?
www.falconryforum.co.uk/chat.php

It's for vBulletin 4.x only.

Hi Digital point, I've installed it and if I go to myurl/chat.php it displays but it doesn't display in my forumhome template, do I need to place a hook in the templates anywhere to call it?

Also I tried to add it in an Iframe but that was also unsuccessful.

It's not designed for embedding into other pages.