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.

[Bree]

*Installed* Works perfect - then again I expected nothing less =0) vB 3.6.5 Thanks a bunch! Always, Bree

[SCRIPT3R]

Edit: Sorry, this is just for my personal reference... you told me this eons ago and i always forget it. :up:

		<plugin active="1" executionorder="3">
			<title>Members in Flashchat (2)</title>
			<hookname>forumhome_start</hookname>

[Paul M]

Huh ?

[rwilkins108]

After applying latest upgrade, my $totalchatters edit I made in other places isn't returning anything... on the navbar I have Chat (#) where # is the number of user's currently in chat and it doesn't show anything any more.

so, for example, it used to say Chat (0) or Chat (10) and now it shows Chat ().

I checked the style edit, it didn't change. Users in Flashchat does show correctly in the WOL area.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

[Paul M]

$totalchatters has not changed - but what you describe would never have worked unless you had edited the hook this runs on, since the code only runs on forumhome - at a guess I would say you must have edited it to run on global_start. Any such change would be lost when you upgraded.

[rwilkins108]

Damn you're good! lol, guess I totally forgot that I made that change. All is working well again. Thanks!

[daddygrim]

amazing!!!!! installed

[PoetJA-1975]

I've been wanting this for a while now - finally installed.
Thanx for the great modification PAUL

Jacquii.

[jmergener]

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).

Paul,

Can you give some more information on this as I am trying to get this to work on my site and the number will display on first of the forums page but will not display on any of the other pages or the main (home) page. I am using vBadvanced so I am sure the issue revolves around that.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Website: www.arizonabass.com

[Paul M]

All the information is in the line you quoted - you must edit the plugin that uses forumhome_start to use global_start instead.