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.

[Paul M]

You edit the phrases at the bottom of the xml file - or edit them in your acp after uploading.

[ChevyThunder]

got everything installed and it works great
except for one glitch
when I hit the forumhome page tab when opening up that page from the ACP
it gives me this error

Warning: Unknown(/home/content/c/h/e/chevythunder/html/chevythunder/chat/inc/config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /forumhome.php(63) : eval()'d code on line 6

Fatal error: (null)(): Failed opening required '/home/content/c/h/e/chevythunder/html/chevythunder/chat/inc/config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/content/c/h/e/chevythunder/html/chevythunder/forumhome.php(63) : eval()'d code on line 6

it only does this with the chatters in chat room mod installed
once I remove that - it works just fine

any ideas what I should do, otherwise everything seems to be working fine

[Paul M]

Is your chat folder in the vb folder (i.e. with the admincp and modcp folders) ?

I'm a bit confused by your post as well, are you saying you get that erro when this mod is installed, or some other mod ?

[PyroChixRock]

thank you for the mod!

[DaNIEL MeNTED]

Hey Paul...

Wondering if you could save me some time before I look through the code. I was thinking of changing my navbar so it shows the # of people chatting (in order to entice more people to use chat).

Is there a variable or function I can call from your this plugin in my navbar?

THX!

[PyroChixRock]

Originally Posted by GearTripper

hi Paul... in regards to my previous post here.

for my navbar code; would the number of active users should appear next to the link, as with forumhome_start, as long as i copy the Plugin PHP Code to hook location forumdisplay_Start? changing the template cache accordingly. i know it's a lot of unnecessary code. can you specify the specific i would need to call the correct number for $totalchatters?

		<if condition="$show['member']">
			<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="chat/flashchat.php$session[sessionurl_q]">Flashchat: $totalchatters</a></td>
		</if>

Originally Posted by Paul M

Change the hook that this uses to global_start and $totalchatters will be available on any page (note, obviously it will run the query on every page as well).

Would you mind helping me with this, too? I've added the chat link and the $totalchatters code to the navbar, but I am confused on what else to do to get the number of chatters to show next to the chat link.

[PyroChixRock]

never mind I figured it out. Thanks for the awesome mod!

[HolyKiller]

here is my question - again:

Hi, THX for the mod, but i have one question.

At bottom of the forum homepage i see Members currently using Flashchat: 3 and i want copy the number of chating user to other position, but i don't know the name of this variable unit.

In template i don't find anything what i can use :/

THX a LOT

Holy

[Paul M]

If you look, the answer is two posts above you ..........

( $totalchatters )

[DaNIEL MeNTED]

Originally Posted by Paul M

If you look, the answer is two posts above you ..........

( $totalchatters )

Hehe. Thanks... I saw that afterwards but haven't had time to test it out. Still working on getting photopost classifieds to work with iTrader and to send PMs vs emails. Will give it a shot over the weekend.