Major Additions - [AJAX] vB Pager 3.0.4

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[AJAX] vB Pager 3.0.4

Hack Version: 3.0.4
vB-version: 3.5.x
Developer: WwW.UAEWEB.CoM
Install-difficulty: Few minutes!

Introduction:
vB Pager is a text-based instant messaging system over your community between members. Users can exchange short & quick messages amongst each other. Unlike the regular private messaging system, the paged user is guaranteed to read your message & reply to it (if you choose this option) instantly & easily.

• Features:
  • Uses AJAX Technology to Send pager messages / Get pager messages / Add & Remove a member to buddy list / Add & Remove a member from Ignore list. (No Refresh Required)
• Main Features:
  • vB Pager Buddy List ?pop-up? window is used to keep track of the friends you wish to interact with. By going to your "vB Pager Buddies", you'll be able to see which of your friends are currently online and offline, and be able to send them a pager message. Adding people to your buddy list also allow you to send pager messages to multiple forum members at the same time. You may add any member of the forums to your buddy list by clicking the icon next to their names in the vB Pager Online Members Page or Clicking the Manage Buddies Link to add/remove members into your list.
  • vB Pager Ignore List ?pop-up? window lists are used for those people who's messages you wish not recieve from.
  • Received Pager Messages are Draggable Inline Popups.
  • Sending a message opens up a small window where you can type in message to be sent.
  • Optional Anonymity: you can choose to hide your username when paging another user on the forum, & define which Usergroup can utilize this option.
  • The window comes in with a built-in character counter to enable the user to keep track of the characters typed.
  • Logs of all incoming and outgoing pager messages ?Inbox/Sent Items? member has, can be viewed and deleted.
  • Download Stored Messages as XML, CSV, TXT.
  • Members can turn the vB Pager Off anytime they wish not to receive pager messages, and they can select the option to receive pager messages from those who are in their Pager Buddy List only.
• Admin CP Features:
  • vB Pager Options
    • Switch the paging system on or off anytime you wish!
    • vB Pager AJAX Check Period control.
    • Set to mark all read messages as deleted messages after being read by end users and prune them automaticly every one hour with cron job.(v3.0.4)
    • vB Pager Display Window Refresh Period control .
    • Set Floodcheck - Minimum Time Between Pager Messages.
    • Set Maximum Pager Messages Per-Page in inbox/sent items.
    • Allow vB Code in Pager Messages control.
    • Set the Sizes of Width and Height of the vB Pager Buddy List Window.
    • Set the Width Size of the Received Pager Message Box.(v3.0.1)
    • Enable Notification Sound on New Received Pager Message.(v3.0.1)
    • Enable/Disable the display of Avatar.(v3.0.2)
    • Banned Users.
  • Pager Message Statistics
    • Mass prune stored pager messages (All, Unread, and Deleted Messages).
    • search for users with X number of pager messages.
    • Delete pager messages for user x.
• Usergroup based Permissions:
  • Can Send Pager Messages. (Yes/No)
  • Maximum Stored Pager Messages.
  • Minimum Number of Posts Required Before Can Send Pager Messages.
  • Minimum Number of Posts Required (Per Day) Before Can Send Pager Messages.
  • Maximum Number of Pager Messages Can Send Per Day.
  • Maximum Recipients to Send Pagers at a time.
  • Maximum Characters Per Pager Message.
  • Can Hide Their Username When Paging Another User. (Yes/No)
  • Can Use Allow Reply Option When Sending Pager. (Yes/No)
  • Can Send Pager Message to All Users. (Yes/No)
• Other Features:
  • XML Product.
  • Fully Phrased.
  • No file edits.
• Screenshots, Updates, FAQs & Add-Ons:
  • See second & third post.
• Contents of vbpager.zip:
  • README.txt
  • Uploads
    • pager.php
    • pager_sound.wav (v3.0.1)
    • admincp
      • pageradmin.php
    • includes
      • xml
        • bitfield_pager.xml
        • cpnav_pager.xm
    • images
      • statusicon
        • vbpager.gif
        • vbpager_icon.gif
        • vbpager_user_buddylist_invisible.gif
        • vbpager_user_buddylist_online.gif
        • vbpager_user_ignorelist_invisible.gif
        • vbpager_user_ignorelist_online.gif
        • vbpager_user_invisible.gif
        • vbpager_user_offline.gif
        • vbpager_user_online.gif
        • vbpager_user_remove.gif
• Contents of xml Product:
  • vB Pager Templates
    • PAGER
    • PAGERBUDDYLIST
    • pagerbuddylistbit
    • pager_messagelist
    • pager_messagelistbit
    • pager_multipager
    • pager_newpager
  • vB Pager plugins
  • • vB Pager (cache_temlates)
    • vB Pager (parse_templates)
    • vB Pager (profile_updateoptions)
    • vB Pager (template_groups)
    • vB Pager (userdata_doset)
    • vB Pager (userdata_start)
    • vB Pager (cron_script_cleanup)
  • vB Pager phrases
    • Many of 'em
  • vB Pager Database Modifications
    • New Tables (pagerreceipt, pagertext)
    • Alterd Tables (user, usergroup, usertextfield)

How to Install:

• Simply download the zip file, Unzip it to a directory on your computer and follow the steps from the README.txt
• Remember to Change vB Pager Pemrissions from the Usergroup Manager.
• Make sure that you got your forum url filled in the Help Site Name / URL / Contact Details under your vBulletin Options. See this post
• Make sure that you got your forum directory name filled in the Forum Directory Name under your vB Pager Options.
• Please Read This Post befor asking for help.

How to Uninstall:

• Simply remove all uploaded files, revert your edited templates, and uninstall vB Pager Product from the Manage Products under the Plugin System in your ADMINCP.

Known Issues:

• Permissions are not being inherited from secondary usergroups.

Thanks to aberg for the Dutch translation.

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[uae]

Originally Posted by Darth Gill

UAE, logged onto my site today, and it crashed for him. He thinks it might be a style issue, so he's going to check that aspect of it out later.

Originally Posted by docvader

Hi Uae,
My "beta testers" have been playing with vbpager to try to fix the issues. We love the hack, and are just trying to help here, as always. Thought you might find this interesting:
Quote:
as your senior beta tester I have to let you know, that this update from Microsoft doesn?t work. I downloaded and installed it today, but yet I continue to get kicked out when a pager message shows up. BUT
(I like this part with the but?lol) This being kicked out only happens when I?m on the start page of the forum, or when I try to enter my user CP. When I entered the site and immediately went to a secondary page like NEW POSTS e.g., the pager message opens and I don?t get this error message or the complete shutting down of the IE. It sounds strange, but this problem only persists at the start page of the forum and the USER CP page. Oh and the ?remember me? box was clicked on.

Well, the "start" page that she refers to is on russbo.com, and the vb forum is on russbo.org; different servers. So, I can understand why there are issues. But, the USER CP part is interesting. Don't fully understand that yet.
I've reduced AJAX to the middle level, and people still get the IE crashses. I have now gotten rid of AJAX to see if anything improves.
Hope all is well. Keep up the good work man. Great hack.
rich

I think I'm getting something, I just uploaded the original style with no modification to any template to Darth Gill's forum, and only did the pager template edits, everything seem to work fine with IE, so I guess it's some other hack or a template edit conflicting with the pager hack.

mmm....still trying to figure it out :ermm:

[successful]

Originally Posted by uae

Thank you,
1) It's either you close the pager message or reply to it, that is a respond!
2) What did you mean by the chat box? is it the whole pager online/buddylist page closing after hitting the send button? or just the send new pager form which should close after sending the message.

When you reply to a pager message it closes once you click send. We should have the option to keep it open so we can continue conversing with the person. At the least this should be an "option" which we can set. Seems like many others have this same issue/complaint.

How do I respond to messages I received when I was offline ? Right now I can read them and delete them but there's no way for me to respond to them ?

[Darth Gill]

Can we have multiple conversations going at the same time? It would be neat to see it in multiple windows. And of course, the window closing is annoying.... Maybe make it an option?

[docvader]

Originally Posted by successful

When you reply to a pager message it closes once you click send. We should have the option to keep it open so we can continue conversing with the person.?

Then it becomes a chat, and not a pager.
I have both; I used FlashChat (which is also an excellent hack for vb) for chatting, vbpager for paging.

[Darth Gill]

Originally Posted by docvader

Then it becomes a chat, and not a pager.
I have both; I used FlashChat (which is also an excellent hack for vb) for chatting, vbpager for paging.

I have flashchat, but my users find it inconvenient. This is a great way to engage those who wouldn't use chat in a conversation. Surely the option to keep it open wouldn't hurt, right? And besides, AJAX beats flash any day

[uae]

Originally Posted by docvader

Then it becomes a chat, and not a pager.
I have both; I used FlashChat (which is also an excellent hack for vb) for chatting, vbpager for paging.

Rich is right, I don't think I want to take that route, it would be a whole new concept with my pager hack.
.....
you can always use a chatting system, I think FlashChat has something called private rooms or private messages?

[harry1951]

UAE is it possible to add a smiliebox???
My users are asking for it

[wtrk]

hey all, i havent read all 300 post but i want to put in my $0.02 on the pager, maybe this has already been discussed..

first, good work on the plugin, very cool idea. works good.

second, a suggestions, i find it kind of hard to use. its hard to reply to pages that you get and its hard to reply to pages that youve missed. i think more reply options are needed.

thanks.

[Darth Gill]

Originally Posted by uae

Rich is right, I don't think I want to take that route, it would be a whole new concept with my pager hack.
.....
you can always use a chatting system, I think FlashChat has something called private rooms or private messages?

Like I said before - I can't get my users to use flashchat. Anyway, surely adding an ADMIN option wouldn't be too difficult (turned off by default). Making the script more flexible would be more attractive even if you don't necessarily agree with or even understand all future uses of it. That's why vbulletin is powerful and popular.

[docvader]

Originally Posted by Darth Gill

Like I said before - I can't get my users to use flashchat.

Just curious, if you can't get your users to use flashchat, why would they use vbpagerchat?

I find, that the system, as it is, is far more useful to me. Unlike an IM box, or chat box, where I'm constantly involved, this pager system lets me disappear for a bit, and return the message when I want, without really hurting anyone's feelings. That's the true beauty of it.