Official SigmaChat Integration
 

Product Info
Name: SigmaChat Official Integration Extension
Product ID: sc7400
Version: 1.0.4 (Version re-schemed)
Author: RaiderSoft (http://www.raidersoft.com/)
Last Modified: 17 Oct. 2005
Compatibility: vBulletin 3.5.0 Gold, 3.5.0 RC-2/3
Mirror: forums.raidersoft.com

Overview
This extension allows you to fully integrate a SigmaChat Platinum or Enterprise Java? Chat Room with your vBulletin 3.5.x forum system, including the ability to authenticate access via your vBulletin forum system, and provide a "Who's Chatting" page list showing who is currently logged into your chat room.

Requirements

• vBulletin 3.5.x
• SigmaChat Platinum, or Enterprise. Please note that SigmaChat Basic and SigmaChat Professional are no longer supported. You may register for a SigmaChat account at www.sigmachat.com.
• PHP with allow_url_fopen directive enabled in your php.ini file. This is required to download the Who's Chatting list from SigmaChat servers.

What's new?
This extension dramatically improves upon the previous release by making use of the vBulletin Database to store Who's Chatting list updates. Additionally, the Who's Chatting box at the bottom of the main forum page has been removed in favor of showing a (nearly) real-time count of users in your chat room directly from the main navbar. Both embedded and popup chat room options are provided to your user. The Who's Chatting list has been cleaned up. Two additional remote functions (Add Buddy and Forum Ignore) have been added as well.

Features

• Seamless integration between your vBulletin forum and SigmaChat
• Popup and Embedded Chat room link options
• Automatic (one minute interval) User's Chatting count updates
• Real-Time Who's Chatting list
• Display the amount of users within your chat room on your main navbar shown throughout your entire forum
• Remote authentication allows you to authenticate access into your chat room based on your vBulletin user database
• Automatic user login option
• Remote authentication allows you to choose which vBulletin user groups are allowed chat room administrative privileges
• Remote functions system allows you to tie in vBulletin forum functions into the SigmaChat user menu
• Uses the new vBulletin 3.5 XML product import architecture, making installation/uninstallation easier, requiring no modifications to the codebase.
• Improves over previous versions by storing Who's Chatting list within it's own MySQL database table

Installation
Installaion will require between 10 and 15 minutes of your time. Download the supplied ZIP file, and extract it on your personal computer. Open the README.html in your web browser file for full installation instructions. No PHP code modifications are required as this script makes use of the new vBulletin XML Product system.

Support
Support is provided by RaiderSoft for this script provided you have a Platinum or Enterprise SigmaChat account. Read the included instructions for details. Please let us know if you have any problems installing this extension.

Updates
8/12/05 - vbsc7400_101.zip uploaded fixing the auto-login problem. To update from the previous release, simply download and extract the new archive and copy the 'chat.php' file to the root directory of your vBulletin forum. No other changes are required.
8/13/05 - vbsc7400_102.zip uploaded fixing minor issue with displaying users currently chatting. This may have effected all users using a custom table prefix.
10/5/05 - vbsc7400_103.zip uploaded fix minor issue relating to table prefixes. This script now been fully tested with VB 3.5.0 Gold.
10/17/05 - vbsc7400_104.zip uploaded. Users experiencing problems with table locking or the who's chatting list should download and install this update.

Screenshots are attached.

great and working great thanks for that and instal

I have a stupid question. (go figure)

I have seen chat scrips where the company hosts your chat logs... This isgma chat isn't one of them, is it?

It's a remote hosted chat system, yes.

Will this work with 3.5.0 RC1?

Don't know :) Worth a try I suppose... Planning on sticking with RC1?

I was going to stick with RC1 until 3.50 went gold. But its not a big deal, just curious.

some here. :)

Just updated to the Platinum Sigma Chat option. Just waiting for it to update that its been paid, then give this a go ;P

Hi there, I'm all installed with this but my chat when it loads says logging in, verfying password and then invalid username or password. If I continue by logging in manually with my forum details it all works and I log into chat.

I have the same problem.

Is your authentication URL set up correctly? Here are some things to check..

1. Make sure the authentication URL is enabled in chat_global.php
2. Make sure the user group arrays in chat_global.php are correct, and match user the user group ID's in your VB admin control panel.
3. If you're using a hack that changes the way VB passwords are stored internally, the autentication script will not work -- chat_auth.php would have to manually edited.
4. You have to be logged in to your forum if you're trying to get automatic login to work, and for automatic login to work, it too must be enabled in chat_global.php

If you're continuing to have problems, eMail support@raidersoft.com with the following info:

1. Your SigmaChat account number
2. A direct URL to your forum
3. A copy of your chat_global.php file
4. A valid username and password for your forum for us to test with
5. A complete description of the problem, and procedure to reproduce it.
6. The vBulletin version you're using. As of now, only RC2 has been tested.

I'm having the same problem. Auto-login does not work (in fact, it looks like no username/password is being pre-entered in the username/password fields at all, which is why an "Invalid Login" error is being returned), but manual logins work just fine. Everything else seems to be working.

cduerr -- I sent you an e-mail with all details at the support account.

Hopefully, we can get this fixed. :)

Thanks!

Hmm.. most of these problems can be explained by not having a Platinum or Enterprise account. Auto-login will not work with the Professional service. Can someone send me a link to their forum with a valid username/password so I can test it out? You may eMail it to me at support@raidersoft.com or PM me if you prefer. Thanks!

Hey Chris I emailed you a few days ago with the same problem, still waiting to here back from you. I'll PM and email you my username and password for you to check it out.

Ok, folks :)

I got a couple emails and some private messages. It looks like the problem is that the auto-login code somehow never made it from development to distribution. I'll take a look at it tomorrow or this weekend and get a new revision out ASAP!

Aside from that, how is everything else working? The new Who's Chatting integration should be much better than the previous release, but I'm curious to hear how it's working.

i couldnt understand the last installation part :S

cduerr -- I have a Platinum account, and I send you the details to your support e-mail. Please e-mail me back and let me know any next steps I should take.

Edit: Great to hear! Everything else seems to be working really well. Quick questions -- how much strain does both the cron job and the who's online tabular data (displayed on the navbar) place on the server load? Do they constitute additional queries?

Yes, it does constitute additional queries, and it also opens a quick HTTP connection to our servers to download the latest data. As it is only run once per minute though, the effect shouldn't be noticeable.

A new minor update was put online today correcting the automatic-login bug.

To update from the previous release, simply dowload and extract the new archive to your computer. After that, just copy (ftp) over the new 'chat.php' file to the root directory of your vBulletin forum. No other changes are required.

Thanks for the fix is does work. However what it does, is first it says invalid password, and then it jumps you into the chatroom. So first auto login looks like its not going to work, and then it works lol

I just installed for a customer today, and experiencing the same login problems.The rest functions without any problem.

@Ryan
This happens also the second time (maybe some cache issue)?

Installed, great hack :)

I had the auto login problem but after uploading chat.php the problem went away.

Hi there, thanks for the update! login now works fine.

One more little problem.

My who's chatting loads a page that is blank apart from my forum header.

I've check php info and url fopen is on.

I don't even get my forum nav so it may not be a sigma issue.

any ideas welcome.

Sounds like an install issue. When you edited your templates (as described in the installation instructions) the chat pulldown menu should have been added to the navbar.

As for the Who's Chatting page, this relies upon templates that should have been added when you installed the XML file. Are you using RC-2? Any error messages during the XML installation?

A new minor update was put online today correcting a bug in the Who's Chatting list effecting users who have set a table prefix during their vBulletin installation.

To update from the previous release, simply dowload and extract the new archive to your computer. After that, just copy (ftp) over the new 'chat_online.php' file to the root directory of your vBulletin forum. No other changes are required.

Thanks to rogerl for noticing this bug.

Nah its not that I checked. It first says invalid and then sends you to the chat room. It works, but first it says that it doesnt.

Hi Chris, thanks for replying.

After my members said it was missing I noticed is was getting placed way down the page. If I remove my forum header and just have my forum nav it shows fine. I have therefore left off my header, I'm on RC2 but the old 3.0.7 version worked with the header though.

not to worry, something i've done i'll have to live with :)

Worked great.

Cheers. :)

You have to pay for this chat though so why get it?

Grim77 thanks for this, I am waiting until gold to upgrade from 3.0.7 to 3.5.

Quick question... is there anything I need to un-do or remove from the previous sigma integration on 3.0.7, prior to upgrade? I assume the upgrade will over-write at least portions of the previous sigma hack modifications.

Or can I just go ahead and upgrade vBulletin, and then install this new sigma integration on to that, without worrying about the previous sigma hack?

Hello, I have problems when installing the PlugIns, leaves this to me:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/functions.php

Buaaa =(

I would just upgrade vBulletin, then reinstall the script -- should work like a charm :)

Beautiful!! Thank you so much.

That last sigma integration I installed also worked flawlessly! :)

Mainly due to the fact that local hosted chat scripts can put quite a strain on your server. FlashChat is adding quite a load as well as becoming a bit buggy when I get more than 20 or so users chatting at once. To many people, like myself, paying a mear $8/mo to offload all of the additional server strain is well worth it.

I've posted this error on your 'support forum' along with a couple of other people - but no-one seems to want to answer.....
Any ideas please?

Mine is doing the same thing.

Same problem with mine as well. The fix is to change (in product-sc7400.xml) from
to

Hello,

An update to this script was made today to resolve the problems relating to SQL errors (specifically a problem in the XML file where table prefixes weren't being used where they should have been).

Additionally, the script has now been fully tested with vBulletin 3.5.0 Gold

To upgrade from a previous 3.5.x based release, simply upload the new product-sc7400.xml file, replacing the old product install.

my "who is chatting page" is stretched beyond 1024 pixels for some reason. I've looked at the template but can't quite figure it