Official SigmaChat Integration

Product Info
Name: SigmaChat Official Integration Extension
Product ID: sc7400
Version: 1.0.4 (Version re-schemed)
Author: RaiderSoft (http://www.raidersoft.com/)
Last Modified: 17 Oct. 2005
Compatibility: vBulletin 3.5.0 Gold, 3.5.0 RC-2/3
Mirror: forums.raidersoft.com

Overview
This extension allows you to fully integrate a SigmaChat Platinum or Enterprise Java? Chat Room with your vBulletin 3.5.x forum system, including the ability to authenticate access via your vBulletin forum system, and provide a "Who's Chatting" page list showing who is currently logged into your chat room.

Requirements

• vBulletin 3.5.x
• SigmaChat Platinum, or Enterprise. Please note that SigmaChat Basic and SigmaChat Professional are no longer supported. You may register for a SigmaChat account at www.sigmachat.com.
• PHP with allow_url_fopen directive enabled in your php.ini file. This is required to download the Who's Chatting list from SigmaChat servers.

What's new?
This extension dramatically improves upon the previous release by making use of the vBulletin Database to store Who's Chatting list updates. Additionally, the Who's Chatting box at the bottom of the main forum page has been removed in favor of showing a (nearly) real-time count of users in your chat room directly from the main navbar. Both embedded and popup chat room options are provided to your user. The Who's Chatting list has been cleaned up. Two additional remote functions (Add Buddy and Forum Ignore) have been added as well.

Features

• Seamless integration between your vBulletin forum and SigmaChat
• Popup and Embedded Chat room link options
• Automatic (one minute interval) User's Chatting count updates
• Real-Time Who's Chatting list
• Display the amount of users within your chat room on your main navbar shown throughout your entire forum
• Remote authentication allows you to authenticate access into your chat room based on your vBulletin user database
• Automatic user login option
• Remote authentication allows you to choose which vBulletin user groups are allowed chat room administrative privileges
• Remote functions system allows you to tie in vBulletin forum functions into the SigmaChat user menu
• Uses the new vBulletin 3.5 XML product import architecture, making installation/uninstallation easier, requiring no modifications to the codebase.
• Improves over previous versions by storing Who's Chatting list within it's own MySQL database table

Installation
Installaion will require between 10 and 15 minutes of your time. Download the supplied ZIP file, and extract it on your personal computer. Open the README.html in your web browser file for full installation instructions. No PHP code modifications are required as this script makes use of the new vBulletin XML Product system.

Support
Support is provided by RaiderSoft for this script provided you have a Platinum or Enterprise SigmaChat account. Read the included instructions for details. Please let us know if you have any problems installing this extension.

Updates
8/12/05 - vbsc7400_101.zip uploaded fixing the auto-login problem. To update from the previous release, simply download and extract the new archive and copy the 'chat.php' file to the root directory of your vBulletin forum. No other changes are required.
8/13/05 - vbsc7400_102.zip uploaded fixing minor issue with displaying users currently chatting. This may have effected all users using a custom table prefix.
10/5/05 - vbsc7400_103.zip uploaded fix minor issue relating to table prefixes. This script now been fully tested with VB 3.5.0 Gold.
10/17/05 - vbsc7400_104.zip uploaded. Users experiencing problems with table locking or the who's chatting list should download and install this update.

Screenshots are attached.

[Ken Woods]

Can we get an answer here from Signma Chat or someone from vBulletin? This is kind of a big deal!

[Ken Woods]

Getting an echo in here. I know that someone has Sigma Chat working with vBulletin right???

[mutus123]

Originally Posted by Ken Woods

Getting an echo in here. I know that someone has Sigma Chat working with vBulletin right???

Yes, I do. No problems.

[Ken Woods]

Thanks for the response. Any clue why the password isn't getting carried over when I log into chat? Did you have any problems initially with that? For now I have Guest turned on so everyone can go straight in with their vBulletin name. I'd love to turn Guest access of though but can't.

[mutus123]

Originally Posted by Ken Woods

Thanks for the response. Any clue why the password isn't getting carried over when I log into chat? Did you have any problems initially with that? For now I have Guest turned on so everyone can go straight in with their vBulletin name. I'd love to turn Guest access of though but can't.

Ken, I never had any problems. Sorry

I do seem to remember that you need to edit your settings in your Sigma Chat account as well, not just in the config file on your site.

If you've already done this please forgive me... however I find that 9 times out of 10, when I have a problem... I have usually overlooked something basic. I didn't think you mentioned your sigma account settings above, unless I missed it.

Have you logged into your sigma account and gone to "site integration"?

Under "Site Authentication" you must enable Remote Authentication and and specify the URL for it, that is a full path to the chat_auth script at your site.

Also... I believe they have pre-made integration scripts in the "enhancements" section of your sigma chat account panel.

Hope that gets you in the right direction. Grim77 is usually very helpful here... he must be pressed for time lately

[Ken Woods]

OK thanks...this is the problem then. I don't have the Platinum or Enterprise edition. I have the one right below the Platinum level. I assume I have to upgrade one more time.

Thanks for the help!
Ken

[kadafi_alive]

Hmm,

Alot of uncached templates. Where do you cache them?

[Me2Be]

wow, seamless!! Thanks!

[Ryan McBain]

Today I got this error on my board. I use SigmaChat. The problem is severe and needs to be fixed since it keeps anyone from getting to my board.

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.2:
Invalid SQL:
LOCK TABLE scwho WRITE;
MySQL Error : Can't find file: 'scwho.MYI' (errno: 2)
Error Number : 1017
Date : Saturday, February 4th 2006 @ 11:33:01 AM

I had to drop the scwho table and turn of SigmaChat count in Vb plugin manager. Is there a permanent fix for this?

[Ryan McBain]

So when's the next update?