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feaelin · #10 04-16-2012, 06:27 PM

For what I was working on I wanted the chat window to be "inside", that is, have the usual header, navigation bar, footer, etc. as the rest of the forums, instead of popping up as a window.

This is how I did it (in case someone else needs to do the same thing).

First I made a custom template, named custom_ajaxchat with the following code as the body of the template:

Code:

{vb:stylevar htmldoctype}
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="{vb:stylevar textdirection}" lang="{vb:stylevar languagecode}" id="vbulletin_html">
  <head>
    <title>{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}</title>
    {vb:raw headinclude}
  </head>
  <body>   
    {vb:raw header}
    {vb:raw navbar}

    <div class="blockbody">
      <div class="blockrow">
        <!-- Custom Code Start Here -->
        <center>
          <iframe src="http://DOMAINNAME.COM/chat/" width="80%" height="640>
          </iframe>
        </center>
        <!-- / Custom Code Ends here -->
      </div>
    </div>
    {vb:raw footer}
  </body>
</html>

Obviously, you'll need to change "DOMAINNAME.COM" to your forum's domain name.

The link in the navbar template I changed from what ICThawk gave us, to this:

Code:

<a class="navtab" href="misc.php?do=page&template=ajaxchat" target="_blank">Chat ({vb:raw num_chatting})</a>

The important parts is the url in href that points to the custom template and removing the 'onclick' event. I also added target="_blank" so that it would open a new tab so the user can continue browsing forums in one tab and chat in another.

You'll still need the Plugin (hooked to global_bootstrap_init_start) that ICThawk provided, I didn't make any changes there.

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