Forum Home Enhancements - Who is chatting (for Flashchat)

This modification is no longer available or supported.

This is a simple display of who is currently chatting in FlashChat - on the forum homepage display.

The main features of the 3.6 version are basically the same as previous versions ;

1. It displays the list on Forum Home with the "Users online" display.
2. The list view is collapsable, so you see just the number.
3. Users who should display as coloured or bold etc are displayed correctly (based on the display usergroup)
4. If you 'hover' over a username it will show the room they are chatting in and their status (away etc).
5. If the chat is empty, a simple "no one is chatting" message is displayed.
6. The hack is phrased.
7. The ability to turn it on/off is in the ACP Options.
8. The ability to allow only certain usergroups to view the list is an ACP option (include or exclude groups).
9. The location of the flashchat folder is now an ACP option
10. The option to record and display the Most Ever chatters has been added (v4.46+).

(Options are located in vBulletin Options > Who Is Using Flashchat).

Unzip the XML and import into vB using the ACP Product Manager.

To upgrade from the 3.5 version you need to re-import the product with the overwrite option set to yes.


Note: This hack cannot display any bots in the chat, due to the strange way that flashchat stores this information.

Please also note that I have no connection with the Flashchat product - if you have questions about Flashchat functionality then their forums are located here.


History:

v4.30 : First vb 3.6 release, some code re-written.
v4.31 : Dependancies updated for 3.6.0 Gold.
v4.32 : Updated for Version Checking.
v4.33 : Added options to disable/change auto template insert.
v4.34 : Minor internal code change.
v4.35 : More internal code changes (not released).
v4.36 : Options moved to own settings group.
v4.37 : Minor phrasing changes.
v4.38 : Added new template for username display code.
v4.39 : Fix uncached template.
v4.40 : Moved auto-template options to mods main settings group.
v4.41 : Added 'Always Collapsed' Option to display.
v4.42 : ATCS options updated, Code Run option added, Include/Exclude option added.
v4.43 : Internal update, not released.
v4.44 : Minor code update, no functionality changes.
v4.45 : Defaults on first install updated.
v4.46 : Most Ever chatters option added.

[BucShot]

The 3.8 version of this mod installs fine but this 3.6x version is getting failed to open stream errors with Flashchat 5.0.10 even though the file listed in the error exists.

(/chat/inc/config.php on line 5 and 11) ~ Flashchat 5.0.10 is working on 3.6.8 BTW...

Any idea what's going on here?

I installed a older version of Flashchat (4.7.8) and that fixed the problem. Mod's working fine.
Also worth mentioning, the older version of Flashchat appears to work much better. The new version (5.0.10) is extremely buggy.

[Jensers]

Agreed - I had the same problems, the same results. 5.0.10 is not ready.

[Joe Blow]

Anyone know how to get this working with Flashchat 5.0.11?

I'm running vbulletin 3.6.12

[wacnstac]

Ported this post to the correct thread. I am having problems with this plugin giving me corrupted characters before it correctly posts the number of people in the chat. Please see the screenshot below:




See the %1$s that's what I'm talking about.

[Paul M]

I cannot see a screenshot, but what you describe normally means the phrase has been customised in the past, you need to revert it (drop the custom version).