Ok I'll be honest here. I wasn't going to release this, after the problems I had with the last one, and the problems with the last install proggy I made for hacks. I'm sorry my board is really hacked up and I'm just a tinkerer more than a hacker. So here goes.

What this hack does.

Allows moderators and users to have seperate entrances.
Mods have a second option to hide from the whose in chat option.
Whose in chat updates every 10 seconds so it's close to live.

Things still do to:

Make digi-chat user info preload into chat screen.

It's been running on my board now for about 4 weeks and it runs perfectly.

could we see a demo or a link to your site?

Ok.

I have installed this hack and I can go to chat.php and every thing shows up just fine and asks me if I would like to log in as a normal or hidden user.
I click on either one and it takes me to another page which looks fine exept I can't chat.

One thing I am unsure of is what I insert for host #, and Site Id #.

What do I enter in for these values?

Is host # my ip of site?
Is Site Id # the name of site?

I think that this is my only problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I can't wait to see this in action.

TIA :)

Digi-chat provides you with this information. If you look at your current coding or look at your chat master program you'll see see what your host # is and your site id.

Here's the demo at the moment though it's not perfect because I just finished a site redesign and have to rework the chat room. I'm hoping to have it finished tonight.

I had to uninstall this hack.

I do not have control over the server to install digichat.

As far as I can see, I need to have digichat installed on my server. Correct???

actually I have a hosted digichat. I believe it should work on both ones on your server and a hosted one.

i can find this, can somebody please tell me a specific info. thank you

In forum display find:

eval("\$onlineusers .= \"".gettemplate('forumdisplay_loggedinusers')."\"; ");
}
}

I haven't installed this yet, but I can't find those lines either (perhaps it's a version thing), however in index.php the following lines show the logged in users:

eval("\$loggedinusers = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_loggedinusers')."\"; ");

So I guess you could add it after that, but make sure you correct the code you're adding as well as it is changed from $onlineusers to $loggedinusers.

You don't even need this as it looks like all it does is show who's currently in chat which is useful but not essential for the chat to run.

It does appear though that the person who wrote this hack no longer uses it on his site.

In forumdisplay.php at the very bottom you will find


eval("\$onlineusers .= \"".gettemplate('forumdisplay_loggedinusers')."\"; ");
}
}

it should be right above the

?>

This is still installed on my boards, however I'm in the process of finding a new chat room. :)

will this work on 2.2.2?
and can guest logon to chat?

Ah, must be a version thing then, as I'm still using 2.0.3 and I guess igowoofwoof is as well and it's nowhere in forumdisplay.php (but I guess you could put it anywhere you wanted to show who was online?)

Any reason why you're changing chat service? I've just signed up with DigiChat because I was so impressed with your hack so if you're not happy with them please let me know!

I built this hack on 2.2.1 So yeah could very well be a version thing. I should still work though if you put it at the very end of the forumdisplay.php file, but I'm not positive.

Digi-chat is an ok service. To be honest it's still the best I've seen, but around christmas time my chat room crashed and trying to get tech support was like pulling my own wisdom teeth out. I ended up without a chat room for almost 2 weeks before I connered someone. Then at the end of Janurary someone finally contacted me to "fixed" the problem I had with the chat room. That's the only reason I left.

OK, Thanks very much for getting back to me. I'll give DigiChat a try and see how it goes - we've signed up on a quarterly basis so can cancel fairly easily (theoretically!). Your hack is so simple yet based on the one on your site it is really good so here's hoping all goes well!

Thanks again for your help.

I've installed everything, how do I call the chat room now??

Nevermind, got it working!!

Now, how do I see a who's chatting feature?

When a moderator tries to login, they get an error about the password is not valid???

You need to create an account using ChatMaster for your moderator and assign the same password they are using for vB. They will be prompted for their password when they open the chat.

The Users Online feature doesn't work for me - there's an error with lastchatactivity somewhere and I haven't bothered to try to fix it.

Thanks!

Is there a way to sync passwords.

What happens if a mod changes there password?

There may be a way to sync passwords but I don't think this hack can do ti. If a mod changes their password it must be changed in both vB and DigiChat.

Ok, I have several other user groups beside the standard ones like Senior Moderator.

How can I add them into this hack?

You shouldn't have to - all registered members will automatically be allowed into the chat room if they have logged in. To add your super moderators as chat moderators, just do as I said earlier.

My regular users are not seeing the Rooms tab???

How can I set it so that can switch rooms?

If you want to give your users rights to create rooms, login as ChatMaster and under Options select Accounts and then Guest (I think) and then Edit. You will be able to change the options for each user.

Have a look at the Digi Chat documentation for more information.

Thanks.

The problem is, I've created rooms, and they don't even see a rooms tab.

Here is what I see:

Here is what my users are seeing:

You should really speak to DigiChat about that - I don't think it's related to this hack.

Thanks, will do.

The rooms parameter was set to false in the hack.

It works now! Just overlooked that!

I intalled this DigiChat hack as well. I seem to have it operating but when i attempt to log in Digichat refuses to allow the user access. I get the same error NOW starting server, shutting down firewall. I thought i hacked the code as explained but I'm not a very good hacker.

Error: You may not connect to DigiChat because your name or password was not entered correctly. Please re-enter this information and login again.

I'm using my vbadmin password or alternately I log out, kill any known cookies and then log in as a regular joe.

Can anyone assist?

tvwatcher (registered user) ;)

Well the good news is you don't have to be a good hacker to install a hack - you just have to be able to follow instructions! ;)

You login error is most likely because you haven't set up your admin user correctly in DigiChat or you don't have the same password for vbadmin in vb and in DigiChat. The password and the username must be identical.

Thanks grb123

Got it working I think ... still a slight problem when no user is logged in and VB registration screen appears. If user then tries to log in ... browser seems to hang and then a white screen is presented. However, if i have logged in beforehand the chat interface automatically appears.

I was having other problems thinking this did not work at all. Then i put my two halves together and logged in from another G4 beside me and it seems to work OK. I cannot log into the VB Chat system when I'm sitting on the G4 server. Only from a remote station ... 3 feet away. :ermm:

I have a problem here.

If a user is not logged in and hits the chat pages he/she is given the VB registration page. Everything is fine; however, when user keys in id and password system crunches away longer than normally expected and then hangs on a white screen. That is the concern ... otherwise it looks to be fully operational if user is currently a member in good standing it logs you right into the chat Window.

Any thoughts to fix this would be appreciated. :squareeyed:

Thank You!

Hi, I have to unistall this because it's not working

during installation I ran the q... to the databease:

ALTER TABLE user ADD lastchatactivity int(10) unsigned DEFAULT '0' not null
ALTER TABLE user ADD inchat smallint(4) DEFAULT '0' not nul

How do I undo these two back to what they where????
How do I uninstall this hack?

thank you

There's a template that wasn't installed somewhere.

Has anyone tried this with DigiChat 4.0?

It works with V4 except the you have to upgrade ChatMaster. There is also a problem with admins not being able to access chat until it is upgraded - I think you have to get a new serial number, but I'm still trying to figure it out.

The problem is in two templates created wrong

chat option should be chatoption
chat update should be chatupdate

this will make it work instead of the blank page

This works with version 4 but if you have admins then one of the digichat settings for admins in ChatMaster is automatically ticked - Moderator. You need to remove this as otherwise admins can't login.

I have it working for users, but not for mods and admins with DigiChat 4.0.

With 3, admins and mods had login page. What template directs them to a sign in page?

I've actually left the client just as it was. I've only updated ChatMaster. I couldn't get version 4 to work and as everything works just fine as it is I'm not going to mess with it!