Chat Modifications - Envolve Chat Integration Module

About the Envolve Chat Plugin
This module will connect your vBulletin forum to Envolve chat. Envolve is a chat toolbar similar to Facebook's chat bar that allows your users to have group and one-on-one chats with each other while browsing your forums.

This mod requires an API key from Envolve in order to function. Visit http://www.envolve.com to get one. A free version is available that provides a full feature set for up to 25 concurrent users. Higher numbers of chatters require a paid account.

This mod integrates your forum's account system with Envolve so that when users are logged into your vBulletin site it also logs them into the chat. In addition, it integrates your profile pictures / avatars and profile information. With the 2.0 release of the mod, other users can now view your profile information and get a link to your profile simply by placing their mouse over your name.

The Envolve chat system is a rich solution for community chat. Some of its features include group chat (both public and private), one-on-one chat, the ability to pop chats out into their own windows, moderation controls (boot / block / ban / timed ban), chat message translation, resizable chat windows, chat sharing, and drag-and-drop chat invitations. As a hosted solution, all chat traffic is handled by Envolve's servers and will not place any additional load on your server.

Installation:
Detailed installation instructions can be found here:
https://www.envolve.com/docs/vbulletin-chat-plugin.html. They are also provided in the Readme.txt file.
You can see and try out the chat at http://www.envolve.com.

This version of the mod will work for both vBulletin 4.x and vBulletin 3.8.x.

Screenshots:
Here the "People List" can be seen open in the lower right hand corner of the page. This shows all users who are currently viewing the forum. This site owner has chosen to only allow logged-in users to chat.


Here a public group chat has been opened, and the user has moused-over another user to see his profile information.


Here a user is creating a new group chat that will be shown to the other users on the site. He has also "popped-out" the "General" chat into its own window.

[FernandoFG]

Not working on my forum.

Installed it following step by step the instructions and doesn't shows up.

This product seems to be what I need.

Please help.

[Alfa1]

Too bad that this is hosted only. It looks nice and I would consider it for my big board. I have around 200 chatters simultaneously. But there is no way that I would use hosted chat.

[hackerz5]

Perfect one ..... Have bought it..... Great

[andrew.lee]

Thanks for signing up hackerz5! Glad you like it!

[andrew.lee]

@FernandoFG -- Can you shoot us an email at support@envolve.com with details and we'll help you out? Please include the URL of your site and the steps you took to install it. Any error messages you see (in the apache logs or otherwise) would be very helpful!

[starman?]

Installed - excellent and many thanks.

[Ocean-Wonders]

Installed and it seems to be working well on my site.

www.ocean-wonders.co.uk

Will try the free one for a bit then look at upgrading later

Thanks

[karlm]

If you can do something about the pricing, I might be tempted - but at a minimal $24p/m it's too - too - too steep. I paid twice that for a full year with cometchat and from what I can see (at a quick glance) CC offers more flexibility (e.g. minimal package allows skinning, adding buttons, etc. )

[andrew.lee]

Hi Karlm - unlike cometchat we are a hosted solution, so we actually handle all the server load for you. So you're really paying for the service, not jus the software. Also, our free package is plenty big enough for most sites, so you might want to check that out.

[socialteenz]

Installed & rated *****