[trilOByte]

Today at 05:27 PM David_McPherson said this in Post #7
Trilobyte,
I'm curious if you could help me.
I need the IRC chat integration into Vb 2.3, I need it free and I'd like to have a place on my forum where people see who is chatting. Where is this item on Vb. When I do a search on vb.org I get nothing but confused with the pirc, mirc, irc, and so forth that I don't know what to install.

What do you recommend?

This hack is for the phpmychat 0.14.5 script. Find it here :http://www.phpheaven.net/en.html

Look here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=21329

For Stasik's integration hack with vBulletin.

Many people prefer IRC, it's faster, less of a resource hog and way more powerful for a skilled user. There are some nice integration scripts too, but I have yet to find one that displays "users in chat now" with any reliability.

I suppose it depends on what your needs are. My forum users (www.britishblades.com) are more familiar with hitting bits of hot steel with hammers, than configuring irc clients & chan's, they just wanted a simple chat program, with an auto login, acessible to all the members and private for members only, they also wanted a method of seeing who was in the chatroom as the surf the forums. PhpMyChat fits this brief better than IRC, or even java front ends for irc.

However, if your forumites are experienced and competent users, they will undoubtedly prefer an IRC chan, preferably one they can access with mIRC, with a java applet for those less skilled. But it comes at a price. I was using jIRC for a while, with mixed results. My site is mainly (but not exclusively) for UK users. I had a real hard time finding a host that would work internationally, with reliability, that was free of trolls.

PhPMyChat - is the best option for me at the moment. It may be good for you also, or it may not.