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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[alfaowner]

Originally Posted by alfaowner

Does this run on v3.5.4 ?with no problems?

Im running it on v3.5.4 with no problems what so ever, im impressed actaully how reliable it realy is! It even told me to empty some of my messages in order to send another and greyed out the send button so i knew there was somin wrong!

www.alfaowner.com/Forum

[RsX]

Originally Posted by uae

I guess your problem has been solved, where you have missplaced the code edit in the footer template

Lol silly me :P thanks for helping out

[johon]

Originally Posted by uae

As I said befor, I am not using IE 7 as it's still on a beta stage.

The problem occurs with IE 6 with the specified Patch, not IE 7.

[jilly]

Hw would I put an option in the navbar to page? Or do you have to start it only by paging a specified user?

What i want to do is put a button on the navbar that says 'page', and when you click it, you go to the list of online users, or the basic pager screen

[looped]

Wow, not sure if it's a user issue/browser issue or what, but all the sudden the last week or so, we've had an obscene amount of database queries with this. We are in the process of pm'ing those people to see if they were doing something they shouldnt be, or if there was something else going on. We were hitting our 64000 queries per hour in like 40 minutes :/. Ever heard of anything like that happening??

[Fusion.nl]

Read the topic i'd say. The shorter the AJAX refresh time and the larger the userbase using vbpager, the more quiries you get.

[looped]

Yea, but these were multiple, extended multiple hits per second type things. not like a 5 second refresh.

edit, and a follow up, i was talking to a few members that said when they would open up vbpager, it would seem like it wanted to constantly refresh, they said you could hear it just constantly 'clicking' on a refresh, actually to the point of crashing their browser sometimes...

[The Geek]

Yea, I just set the Refresh to 0 to disable the default 15 as the queries were bringing my site to its knees. Everything seems cool now

Just have to say again that this is one sweet enhancment.

[Tulsa]

Well I've tried everything I can think of. I had the 3.01 on my site working great now for a while. Then all of a sudden it began acting strange. No longer in the reply box would the text count down but when you sent the reply the original message would reappear the screen would refresh and take you to the main page.

No one seems to get the pages that are sent after the original page. I upgraded to 3.04 and redid all the edits. Same thing.

Must be another hack I've done as it was working fine. Well I've disabled every hack one at a time with no change in the pager.

I'm lost at this point.

[grains]

Hopefully someone can help...
Trying to take "Pager messages: total...etc" out of the NAV and put it into ADV_PORTAL_WELCOMEBLOCK.

Anyone get this to work with vBAdvanced Portal?

Thanks for any help