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.

[jessej]

installed, clicked, and happy camper. TY Muchoooo

[varkjie]

I have installed this and when I enter flashchat it says a diffrent member is in that chat room other than myself for example my name is "varkjie" it says the "jessej" is in the chat area.... whats the deal with this? do you think I need to re install the chat??? Also My member or myself do not log in automatically when we enter the room we need to manually enter a password and username?

[Paul M]

You have not integrated it correctly.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...14#post1269714

[TTG]

Just installed this after upgrading to flashchat 4.7.11 and it worked straight out of the box using vbulletin 3.6.7 :up:

Paul, is there a way to get '$totalchatters' to work outside of the template? I have a link to the chat room in a tab at the top of my navbar, and it'd be slick to have "Chat Room (11)" where 11 is the number of people in the room.

I tried moving $totalchatters, $chatters, etc to the navbar, but for some reason it doesn't display the number anywhere but in the Display_Chatters template.

[Paul M]

If you put it in the header you would need to change the hook to global_start - atm it only runs the code on the forum homepage.

That worked for the header, thanks man.

Unfortunately, setting both to global_start seemed to kill the template itself, since I no longer get the list of who's in the chat in the WGO box.

[Paul M]

4.42 Released.

This has a number of new options (some of which will be added to other mods of mine over the next few weeks).

1. The Auto Template (ATCS) options have been updated, inc adding the option to change the template used.

2. A code run option has been added to choose if the mod runs just on the forumhome or all pages.

3. The usergroups option has been updated so that you can allow all usergroups, or include just those listed, or exclude just those listed.

The basic modification has not changed so you only need to upgrade if you want to use the new options.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Chris-777

That worked for the header, thanks man.

Unfortunately, setting both to global_start seemed to kill the template itself, since I no longer get the list of who's in the chat in the WGO box.

You only should have changed one, not both. However, if you use v4.42 (above) you just need to change an option.

You, sir, rock.

That worked perfectly.

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