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!

[vertfreak101]

Love the idea of this mod.

My only issue though:

Everything is working and running fine, but as I friend people,
they aren't being added to my chat friends, so I can't chat with them. I know this is a
mistake on my end, I just need a bit of guidance!

Thanks!

[reelflafishin]

installed it, read the instructions. looked around for where the settings were.. i couldn't find them lol. but after i did, it showed up perfectly fine on the forum.

[Conehead555]

I got the Pro version, it makes the site so slow I wanted to pull my hair out waiting to get back to ACP to turn it off! $60 down the drain, thanks buddy!

[Alfa1]

Performance issues seem to be a recurring topic. Hopefully this can be addressed?

[Ideal Web Tech]

We are constantly working on this script and some even more advanced code concepts to make it more optimized than it currently is. We also have some performance related settings that are in the admincp which are able to drop the load down at the cost of slower message response times. By default the script ships tuned for almost instant messages which is not ideal for large sites which don't have the hardware to support the extra load. So tuning of the sleep time and other time related settings to higher values should help drop the load from the script.

[GamersChallenge]

uninstalled, regret buying the pro version, slows down my website a lot, sometimes even takes it down. I switched to cometchat, much better, also looks nicer.

[Ideal Web Tech]

You obviously needed to tune settings somewhere in your server, as there have been a few benchmarks performed and our chat outperforms cometchat by over a 50% margin, and soon to be even greater as we are working hard on a memcached based stream to avoid even needing to touch the database between 75-90% of the time depending on how active your site is.

[PWillard]

I have this installed and this

DragonByte Tech: Advanced Post Thanks / Like (Lite 1.1.8
Advanced Post Thanks / Like lets members quickly voice their opinion on a post.

it doesnt seem to work unless I disable (Post Thanks)

[PWillard]

also would be nice to have a feature were users can chat with other users without being friends..

and also to disable sounds cus thats just irritating..

[TeknoSounds]

Originally Posted by Ideal Web Tech

You obviously needed to tune settings somewhere in your server, as there have been a few benchmarks performed and our chat outperforms cometchat by over a 50% margin, and soon to be even greater as we are working hard on a memcached based stream to avoid even needing to touch the database between 75-90% of the time depending on how active your site is.

Please include Xcache as well