[Add on] Who's Chatting on Forum Home Page for Sigmachat

Add-on by ChurchMedia
Who's Chatting on Forum Home Page for Sigmachat

You must have the SigmaChat Complete Integration & Authentication hack installed first and be signed up with SigmaChat, of course.

This will add a "Who's Chatting" box on your forum home page.

Just like "Who's Online", if you click on "Who's Chatting" it will take you to a page with just the chatters.

If you are logged in, there is a link to the chat room. If you are not logged in, there is a link to register.

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Note that the problem of having a space in your user name is corrected. However, if the user name has an _underscore_ in it there may be problems.
To remove the feature that replaces underscores with spaces, remove this line (Line 57 in chat_home.php):

PHP Code:

$username = str_replace("_", " ",$username); 


1 file change
1 new template
2 template changes

WARNING #1: This hack WILL speed up your Who's Chatting hits! If you seriously want Who's Chatting on your front page, keep in mind that you may have to buy extra hits! Otherwise, don't install this hack! I've found that it increased my chat room traffic dramatically, so I think it's worth buying the hits.

WARNING #2: When you do run out of Who's Chatting hits, your forum home page will break (you will get a blank page)! If this happens, in forum/index.php FIND

PHP Code:

include('chat_home.php'); 


and replace it with

PHP Code:

//include('chat_home.php'); 


Then buy more chat hits. When your upgrade goes through, remove the // from the line above to reactivate the hack.

[tamarian]

O.k., here goes:

Note: You need the chat_global.php from the sigma chat hack provided by sigmachat.

1. Create a new file called chat_cache.php or something else, and paste this into it:

PHP Code:

<?php
  
  // replace with actual path to your forum main directory, no trailing slash
          chdir("/path/to/forum");
  
        require_once("./global.php");
        require_once("./chat_global.php");
  
        error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);
        define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1);
        define('THIS_SCRIPT','chat_online');
  
        $globaltemplates = array("sigmachat_chatting",);
  
        $SIGMACHAT_CP_PASSWORD_MD5 = md5($SIGMACHAT_CP_PASSWORD);
      $womurl = "http://$SIGMACHAT_SERVER/vbwho.pl?id=$SIGMACHAT_CHAT_ROOM_ID&pw=$SIGMACHAT_CP_PASSWORD_MD5";
  
        $users = array();
        $user_count = -1;
        $wom_hits_remaining = 0;
        $wom_message = '';
        if($womh = fopen($womurl, 'r'))
        {
           while(!feof($womh))
           {
              $womcontent = fgets($womh, 1048576);
              if($user_count == -1)
              {
                 $wom_hits_remaining = $womcontent;
                 $user_count++;
              }
              else if( ($user_count == 0) && ($wom_hits_remaining < 0) )
              {
                 die;
              }
              else
              {
                 if($womcontent != '')
                  $users[] = rtrim($womcontent);
                 $user_count++;
              }
           }
           fclose($womh);
        }
        else
        {
           die;
        }
  
        $SIGMACHAT_CHATTING_COUNT = $user_count;
      if ($SIGMACHAT_CHATTING_COUNT > 0) $SIGMACHAT_CHATTING_COUNT = "Chatting: " . $SIGMACHAT_CHATTING_COUNT;
          else $SIGMACHAT_CHATTING_COUNT = "";
  
          foreach($users as $username)
        {
           $SIGMACHAT_USERNAME = "$username";
  
          if ($bbuserinfo = $DB_site->query_first('SELECT userid, usergroupid, username, salt FROM ' . TABLE_PREFIX . 'user WHERE username = "' . addslashes(htmlspecialchars_uni($username)) . '"'))
           {
          $SIGMACHAT_USERNAME = "<a href=\"member.php?u=" . $bbuserinfo[userid] . "\">" . $bbuserinfo[username] . "";
           }
  
      $chat_names .= "<a href=\"member.php?u=" . $bbuserinfo[userid] . "\">" . $bbuserinfo[username] . "" . ", ";
  
        }
          $chat_names = addslashes($chat_names);
      $DB_site->query("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "template SET template=\"$SIGMACHAT_CHATTING_COUNT\", template_un=\"$SIGMACHAT_CHATTING_COUNT\" WHERE title='sigmachat_chatting_cache_bit'");
      $DB_site->query("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "template SET template=\"$chat_names\", template_un=\"$chat_names\" WHERE title='sigmachat_chatting_cache'");
  ?>

2. Update the first line in the code above with the right path to your forum home dir on your server.

3. Create two empty templates: sigmachat_chatting_cache_bit and sigmachat_chatting_cache

4. Edit index.php

Find:

PHP Code:

'FORUMHOME', 


Add after:

PHP Code:

         'sigmachat_chatting_cache',
         'sigmachat_chatting_cache_bit', 


Find:

PHP Code:

$today = vbdate('Y-m-d', TIMENOW, false, false); 


Add after:

PHP Code:

$sigmachat_chatting =  $templatecache['sigmachat_chatting_cache'];
 $sigmachat_chatting_bit =  $templatecache['sigmachat_chatting_cache_bit']; 


5. Use $sigmachat_chatting_bit and $sigmachat_chatting in your FORUMHOME template. The first has the number of members in the chat room, and the second has the list of the members and their profile links.

6. Add a cron job to your server, ever 10 minutes. Example:

*/10 * * * * /usr/bin/php /path/to/forum/chat_cache.php > /dev/null 2>&1

7. If you have a problem, feel free to ask, but keep in mind that you need to back up your files and templates in case it doesn't work for you.

[Brent H]

This is my first time trying to add a cron job to my site, and I have no idea where to begin. Where do I put that bit of code in?

[Brent H]

Alright nevermind, I just asked my hosting company and they rudely told me they don't support it. Jerks.

I've got it installed and the link goes to the embedded chat... I want it to pop up. I don't know how to change it

EDIT: Woot, fixed it. Ain't it great when you go begging for help, and then figure out how to do it all by yourself? I feel like such a big boy now.

[rstan]

/cloaked users show in who online.....anyone else notice this?

[Bounce]

How come mine is showing -1 Users when there is indeed 0 folk in my room :nervous:

[j?rg]

hi,

have someone a plugin for vb3.5.

i want display the user´s on my forumhome!