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Originally posted by TigerLily
I have mine integrated as a forum in my boards as well. I don't have the resources or the knowledge to do the eggbot hack either.

I am wondering- is there a way to use this in conjunction with the Who's Online information? If someone is in the chat forum, I think they show up on the Who's Online Page since it's still a forum. I wonder if there is a way to take that info (those who are only in the chat forum) and place it in a Who's In Chat list beneath the Online Users on the main page. I know that was done with the eggbot, but is there a way to do it with the logged in user tables instead?

TigerLily

Yeah, you can use the "location" field in the users session information to see if they are on the chat page. I was thinking about doing this, but with the realtime nature of chat, that 15 minutes before their session timed out was bothersome. Users would get mighty pissed if they saw 15 people in a room and found out they were there 10 minutes ago but that was the last page they were on.

The Eggbot hack requires a cron job, so you do need root access to use it. The cron job restarts the bot every hour or so just to make sure it keeps running. I could always program a watcher program to see if its running and restart it if it stops, but a cron job does it nicely with minimal fuss.

But, on the bright side its worked like a charm this week and users really dig it.

Ethan