Chat Modifications - VB Messenger Desktop Application for vBulletin forums

vBulletin Messenger v1.4.0

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What It Does:

With VBM your members can login to the messenger with thier membership details , add other members to thier contact list (for VB 3.7 contacts are the friends in the friend list) , communicate with each other with smilies , fonts , colors ... , also they will be notified about newest forum posts and threads and view "last 10 posts" in the forum in an easy and fast way with a "Read More" button that will open the thread/post when clicked .
VBM has a public chat room , that can be accessed by all members that use the messenger .
Your members will know about the newest posts in the forum and will open the new post in a new browser window once they click the notification , which means a more active forum members and a better moderation .

Features:

- VBM is easy to install and manage .
- VBM Means less resources required from your website server (MySQL Queries > CPU , Bandwidth) .
- VBM Means a more living forum , and a better moderation .

- It is easy to install and manage your VBulletin Messenger system .
- Fully Supported
- VBM takes less queries from DATABASE and takes less resources/bandwidth because it dosen't have to load the pictures/CSS/backgrounds or any other files from your server , it only loads a small list of online/offline contacts with information about last 10 posts and threads in the forum , which takes about 10-15 queries and max of 5kb-15kb transfere which is less a 1000-10000 times from only opening the forum home page .

Installation:

1 - Download the Server Side Script and Open the file "include.php" and edit the database details to match these of your forum config.php entries

2 - Upload all the PHP files in the "vbmsngr" directory in the root directory of your website "/public_html/" (You may need to create the "/public_html/vbmsngr" folder) .

3 - Tell your members and/or moderators about The Messenger Installation Pack which is the messenger desktop software
Every one who installs this software and have a membership in your forum can chat to each other .

To login to the messenger use your user name then the "@" sign then your forum URL . example : me@myforum.com , enter your password and you're in !!!
You can make a subdomain and add the Server Side Script in it , but then no one can login to the messenger unless they know the subdomain address .

Notes:
- Messenger accepts only usernames and passwords in english chars! ( other languages support coming soon! )
- There will not be any options of editing the [Sitename] Messenger / theme / skin / removing the @domain.com login method unless in custom versions , please refer to the website .

Download Messenger Installation File Here ( it was big for attachment )

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[GoTTi]

the "remember username and password" isnt working right. wont remember my details.

[Amman-DJ.CoM]

Guy's , i see that alot of people are interested about this MOD ,
i did not expect that,

Very Soon a NEW version will be available with features requested

Please, if you have feature please post it hear so i put it in my "To Do List"

Thank You All

[peppercola]

mac availability!!

[GoTTi]

i got ideas for the program:

1. Contacts - have option to delete contact

2. Default load to Online Users only, not Everyone

3. Maybe make it similar to AIM, where the offline users are in a category on its own, and online users are seperate when online, instead of having radio buttons for online and everone

4. Adding a Settings area so we can alter the colors. Each client might wanna alter the colors of the program, you know, to play around with it a little, and style it

5. Take the Inbox and Subscriptions button off the interface. move those to the Settings (if made) so users can select those as shortcut options themselves. also maybe make the New Messages turn into a link to the inbox if a message is there.

6. change VBulletin Messenger 1.x to "vBulletin Messenger", and add a "Help>About" drop down menu and have that show the version number as "vBulletin Messenger X.X", like regular IM clients have. but changing the vBulletin messenger to lowercase v and big B is a small edit, sicne vbulletin is vBulletin ya know

7. removing the extra text of contacts and forum that shows under the tabs when clicked. the forum tab shows forum with a + looking sign on the end or something. that extra text isnt needed, and maybe renaming Forum to New Post or Recent Posting (if this option stays)

8. Maybe interlacing this with cyb chatbox and other shoutbox mods on here that load realtime, might have to use some AJAX technology with it, dunno.

9. like i said a few post ago, having the images for the avatars pull from either DB or file structure. i just moved my images to DB and now my avatar is loading right. i altered the picture.php file to show the image right by removing the size codes. dunno how you can implement that on the client. maybe adding a option inside Tools>Settings for a option to show avatar or not, user choice.

10. allow users to make groups for the usernames on here like AIM and MSN messenger. i like to categorize my buddy list so i know who is who by either name and website or whatever.

11. adding a "log chat" option so if users wanna save chats or whatever, they can have the client write teh data to a text file on their drives, like AIM allows.

im sure ill come up with more in a few minutes

[Forum Lover]

Originally Posted by Amman-DJ.CoM

we can do paid modofications for the messenger , but for privacy you maybe should let the members know thier chat logs will be recorded .

Please PM me when u got time for paid one. There are something more I want to add for my forum.

So far its working fine for me.:up:

[GoTTi]

also excluding forums from showing in as recent post thru the client, dont want RSS bots and postings to show for no reason. i just had 25 boxes popup on my end cuz the bots posted their junk on time.