Chat Modifications - Ideal Chat Lite (facebook style bottom chat/chatroom bar) v1.3.0

This modification adds a bottom bar chat system to your board.

Features

• Friend?s Online List (mutal or all friends)
• Integration with vBulletin's ignore system so users can block messages from people they want
• General Chat Room
• User-to-User Chat
  • Chat with friends
• Support for infinite number of open chats
• Automatic Updating of chat messages
• New message indicators
  • Indicator on Chat Tab for new messages
  • A sound plays for new messages
  • Page title flashes for new messages
  • Indicator for new messages on tabs out of view
• Multiple window support
  • Supports users having your site open in multiple windows/tabs
  • Changes in one window automatically apply to other windows
• Automatically disables chat bar for mobile browsers
  • Help save bandwidth for your mobile users

Settings

• Admin Settings
  • Chat online
  • Ban individual users from chat
  • Update stream time limit
  • Update stream delay
  • Settings & Chat Room link Positions
    • Change where the links show at, or hide them all-together
• Usergroup Settings
  • Can use chat
  • Can use chat room
• User Settings
  • Hide Chat bar
  • New message notification method

Change Log
For a full list of changes, please visit: http://community.idealwebtech.com/in...ngelog&file=15

Installation/Upgrade
See included readme file.

Demo
You can see a demo here (You can can register a new account, or use the Login, "Ideal Chat Demo", and password, "chatdemo") This demo is of the pro version which can be found here!

Support
This modification is released for free, and as such we don't officially support it; however, as time permits we will try to offer support on it. We will NOT be monitoring this thread on a daily basis, your best bet for a fast reply would be to go post here.

Common Issues/Topics
Chat Bar Don't Show Up?
Have you configured the usergroup settings? This is the most common issue we see, and 99% of the time it is due to usergroup settings not being configured properly. So if your bar is not showing up, please verify your usergroup settings before reporting it as an issue.

Messages Don't Show Up?
We are aware of an issue causing messages to not show up for some people, and are looking into fixes.

Modification Has Conflict With Another Product
There is always a chance that two products will conflict with each other! We are aware of some, but please feel free to tell us about any products you find to conflict via our Bug Tracker on our site.

Chat Doesn't Support Certain Characters
The chat can only support the characters your board itself can support! If you would like to support certain characters, you must have your board using a charset that supports them. We have only ever once noticed a chat that didn't support every character the board did, and we are looking in it.

Chat Kills My Server
We have tested the chat extensively for server friendliness, and have found it to be very gentle on servers. We have seen the script run with hundreds of active users without putting hardly any load on the server. However, an improperly configured server may result in any reverse-AJAX/push-AJAX/Comet based chat script killing the server. If you find that your server slows down after installation, you may want to talk with your host about raising your MySQL and Apache Max Connection Limits to a more appropriate amount!

[leejohn02]

is there a way to change the colors, since my writing comes up in white and its hard to see

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by NgocTam

dont suppport iso

Currently the chat will only support characters that your board itself will support. So if you would like your board to support certain characters, your board will have to be using a charset that supports those characters too.

We are currently in the process of finding a way to support them without the board's charset supporting them, and if anyone knows a way to do that, please feel free to contact us about it.

Originally Posted by leejohn02

is there a way to change the colors, since my writing comes up in white and its hard to see

I assume you mean the color of the messages and/or the color of the text on the tabs?

If so, I just added two new style vars this morning for that very problem. So when we release the new version in a few days, you can just change the stylevar, but until then, you can always edit the css manually to take care of that.

[tdkmatt]

i keep gettign tthese in my meail too

after re uploading everything


Database error in vBulletin 4.1.4:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT COUNT(ulist.relationid) AS friendsonline, (
SELECT iwt_chat_updatestream.lastmsgid
FROM vb_iwt_chat_updatestream AS iwt_chat_updatestream
WHERE uid=1
) AS lastmsgid
FROM vb_userlist AS ulist
WHERE ulist.userid=1 AND ulist.friend='yes' AND ulist.relationid IN (
SELECT session.userid FROM vb_session AS session WHERE session.lastactivity > 1311855173
);

MySQL Error : Table 'fatality_elite.vb_iwt_chat_updatestream' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Thursday, July 28th 2011 @ 08:27:53 PM
Error Date : Thursday, July 28th 2011 @ 08:33:07 PM
Script : http://fatalitynetworking.com/forum/...ate_stream.php
Referrer : http://fatalitynetworking.com/forum/
IP Address : 203.59.224.120
Username : admin
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.92-community

[tdkmatt]

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<ajaxresponse>
<friendsonline>1</friendsonline>
<friendsonlinetext>1Friend Online</friendsonlinetext>
<lastmsgid>0</lastmsgid>
</ajaxresponse>

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by tdkmatt

i keep gettign tthese in my meail too

after re uploading everything


Database error in vBulletin 4.1.4:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT COUNT(ulist.relationid) AS friendsonline, (
SELECT iwt_chat_updatestream.lastmsgid
FROM vb_iwt_chat_updatestream AS iwt_chat_updatestream
WHERE uid=1
) AS lastmsgid
FROM vb_userlist AS ulist
WHERE ulist.userid=1 AND ulist.friend='yes' AND ulist.relationid IN (
SELECT session.userid FROM vb_session AS session WHERE session.lastactivity > 1311855173
);

MySQL Error : Table 'fatality_elite.vb_iwt_chat_updatestream' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Thursday, July 28th 2011 @ 08:27:53 PM
Error Date : Thursday, July 28th 2011 @ 08:33:07 PM
Script : http://fatalitynetworking.com/forum/...ate_stream.php
Referrer : http://fatalitynetworking.com/forum/
IP Address : 203.59.224.120
Username : admin
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.92-community

Let me guess, you got these emails in a time frame right after you uninstalled the mod, correct?

That would be because the table gets deleted when the mod is uninstalled, but the user's JavaScript will still be running until they next refresh.

Originally Posted by tdkmatt

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<ajaxresponse>
<friendsonline>1</friendsonline>
<friendsonlinetext>1Friend Online</friendsonlinetext>
<lastmsgid>0</lastmsgid>
</ajaxresponse>

I'm not entirely sure why you posted that...

[basilrath]

Well ive tried and to no avail ................... nothing shows at all and sometimes loads etc but nothing no go sadly

[LA-Aquarium]

Could you help me? it seems to be working on all forum pages but the home page.

I sent PM with website and login info.

[Crotan]

Nice mod, I'm not really looking for a user to user chat, but if I were I'd install this. :P

[LA-Aquarium]

I had to disable the mod for a while until I can get it fixed.

Should I be editing the ideal_chat_update_stream.php

It caused my forum database connections to max out.

[mikem164]

Originally Posted by basilrath

Well ive tried and to no avail ................... nothing shows at all and sometimes loads etc but nothing no go sadly

If you have VSA Chatbox or similiar, give a shot and disable that...

Originally Posted by LA-Aquarium

Could you help me? it seems to be working on all forum pages but the home page.

I sent PM with website and login info.

Same issue here, there's a definite forumhome issue somewhere, all other pages work fine on one forum.
I'm glad it just ain't me.