[bitbender]

Yes. The reason I asked was that I had tried that b4. When I point it(chat button) at /chat/index.php, I'm redirected back to the forum home page, as if the user had joined, and then left chat. I then tried index.lb.php3, but get a blank screen.

This is because of the hack that was added to index.php3 via the thread I mentioned before. It dicussed your hack and two other parts, which affected index.php in the VB forum directory, and
index.php3, and index.lib.php3, and exit.php3 for myphpchat.

thank you for your time. I will continue to analyze my setup. I am still thinking that I have the hack in VB INDEX.PHP misplaced. I tried to represent the variable ($numchatusers) on the home page via the forum_loggedinusers template, and got a blank field display for my efforts. That would indicate to me the code isn't being executed where it needs to.

I placed the hack at the very end of index.php in the VB forum directory. One of the other reasons I know I've something out or ordung is that the chat doesn't open in a seperate window, as the hack documentation indicated it should.

Help This old fool, please