First of all, let me thank all who have worked on the various hacks already. The work you all do is tremendous. Here is my suggestion for a hack that I think would be quite useful.

It's a real time chat hack. Now I know there are plenty of scripts out there that let you set up chat rooms, but I'm talking about one integrated into vBulletin. I envision a chat system where the room is always open to registered users. The column of users would be listed somewhere on the page, and double clicking a user would bring up their profile. I have no idea how difficult this would be to create, or what kind of strain would be put on the server, but if it could be done I think it would be a tremendous addition.

What do you guys think,
Cameron

I am all for it as I am using phpMyChat but it is not integrated with the board.

I support the idea but lack the knowledge.

I'm glad to see others are interested as well. Skimming through the boards, I noticed a similar thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...?threadid=1150 , however it really hasn't been worked on much. I know those skilled in PHP are wrapped up in the Private Messaging and Avatar hacks right now, but if there is enough interest, maybe someone could put it on a furure to do list.

Cameron

I support the idea but lack the knowledge,too!

I have sort of integrated phpMyChat into my forums - you can check it out below. I have not worked on integrating the logins as of yet but I hope too soon..

I would love to see this hack.

Sadly, I have no PHP coding skills.

On a side note, would it be possible to integrate with a java-based chatroom? Like this one:

http://asiansinc.com/chat.shtml

Far-fetched, but...

Can someone tell me where to get phpmychat?

Thanks!

http://phpheaven.free.fr//phpmychat.php3

Email Group Support is at http://www.egroups.com/group/phpmychat

Integrating phpMyChat into vBulletin is actually pretty easy. There are a couple of tricks to do with phpMyChat. You don't want to allow anyone to register (they are going to get in through vBulletin) and you want them to return to vBulletin when they exit phpMyChat.

Here's the vBulletin hack for index.php:
You have to create two new templates (chatloggedin and chatloggedout) that are used just like the personal message hack templates. You will notice that the c_users table in the select statement is actually a phpMyChat table. The on light will display whenever anyone is in the chat room. If they are not logged on to vBulletin, they won't be permitted into the chat room.

Here is the chatloggedin template:
Notice that we are linking into phpMyChat with the vBulletin username and no password. This makes them a non-registered user of phpMyChat. This works but it isn't great security wise. When I get a chance I will clean this up to secure it better.

Here is the chatloggedout template:
Here's the hack for index.php3 of phpMyChat. At the very end, replace the login screen html with a redirection back to the vBulletin board. This will also prevent anyone from logging into phpMyChat any way except through the vBulletin board.

This works, it was easy to code, but I'm sure it isn't the best way to do it. It certainly isn't the most secure.


[Edited by Tom on 07-11-2000 at 02:08 AM]