Add-On Releases - Official AddonChat Product

vBulletin 3.7.x Official Integration & Authentication Extension

Product Info
Name: AddonChat Official Integration Product
Product ID: ac80_37
Version: 3.7.0
Author: AddonInteractive (http://www.addoninteractive.com/)
Last Modified: 15 May. 2008
Compatibility: vBulletin 3.7.x

Overview
This extension allows you to fully integrate a AddonChat Free, Professional, Professional PLUS or Enterprise Java? Chat Room with your vBulletin 3.7 forum system. This script provides basic integration for AddonChat Free and Professional customers. Remote authentication (the ability to secure access to your chat room using your vBulletin username/passwords) is available for Pro+/Enterprise customers, as well as a Who's Chatting feature.

Requirements

• vBulletin 3.7 or higher
• AddonChat Free, Professional PLUS, or Enterprise, or AddonChat Professional with the Remote (HTTP) Authentication System. You may register for a AddonChat account at www.addonchat.com. A Professional PLUS or Enterprise account is recommended to take advantage of advanced features.
• (optional, but recommended) PHP with allow_url_fopen directive enabled in your php.ini file or the PHP CURL extension. This is required to download the Who's Chatting list from AddonChat servers.

What's new?
This script is a completely revamped edition of our previous integration script. Installation no longer requires any template or code modifications. Additionally, there are no PHP files to edit when setting up your chat room. We have added an "AddonChat" menu item in the vBulletin AdminCP that allows you to setup and configure your chat room with ease. Most users will simply need to enter their account number and password (as used at addonchat.com) and your chat room settings will be retrieved automatically, with your remote authentication system updated automatically as well. We have also improved character code support through better UTF-8 conversion allowing non-English speakers to use a vBulletin+AddonChat without issue. Issues relating to the Who's Chatting system causing problems have also been addresses; a scheduled task has been added to automatically optimize and repair AddonChat related tables daily in addition to improvements to the re-written Who's Chatting system.

Features

• Seamless integration between your vBulletin forum and AddonChat
• After installation, setup and configure your chat room from the AddonChat menu in your vBulletin Admin Control Panel
• Popup and Embedded Chat room link options
• Automatic (ten minute interval) User's Chatting count updates
• Real-Time Who's Chatting list
• Display the amount of users within your chat room on your main navbar shown throughout your entire forum
• Remote authentication allows you to authenticate access into your chat room based on your vBulletin user database
• Automatic user login option
• Seamless integration with vBulletin Usergroup permissions (remote authentication)
• Remote functions system allows you to tie in vBulletin forum functions into the AddonChat user menu
• Uses the vBulletin XML product import architecture, making installation/uninstallation simple.
• No code or template modifications required
• Automated account lookup - just enter your account number and password, and your information will be automatically retrieved. (allow_url_fopen must be enabled in PHP)
• Multi-lingual (UTF-8) support

Installation
Installaion takes less than five minutes. Download the supplied ZIP file, and extract it on your personal computer. Open the readme.txt file for full installation instructions. No PHP code modifications or template modifications are required. This script makes use of the vBulletin XML Product system for a fast and painless installation.

Support
Support is provided by AddonInteractive for this script provided you have a Professional, Professional PLUS or Enterprise AddonChat account. Read the included instructions for details. Please let us know if you have any problems installing this extension.

[dodjer42]

Originally Posted by Grim77

Not sure I understand. You want the chat room itself to be loaded on the forum home page? If you have a screenshot of what you'd like, that may help

Here is a screenshot of the current chatbox on front page. We expect a large amount of our traffic to be chat. So having it forefront is important.



BTW, A few of our users actually reported some serious performance problems with addonchat and firefox 2.

[Grim77]

berben4 - Thank you for the code correction. As far as the link code you require, you can link directly to the chat room from any page on your site (outside of vBulletin) using any of the link codes provided in your AddonChat account control panel (Home -> Chat Room Link Code) and under Settings -> Site Integration -> Who's Chatting you can find the Who's Chatting link code.

dodjer42 - The Chat Box you're using looks like a stateless chat room and functions much differently than AddonChat. While it would be possible to place the chat room on the main page, I wouldn't advise to do so in this manner as whenever the user moves to a a different page, he/she would lose the socket connection. There should be absolutely no performance problems with Firefox 2 -- in fact, we use Firefox 2.0.0.14 on all of our development systems for primary testing under Mac OS-X, Vista, and Win XP.

DiesellMinded - Already on the suggestion list for the 8.1 update. When the feature is available, we'll be sure to include it into the vBulletin integration script.

nwingate - Good suggestion, I'll add it to our list Thank you!

[berben4]

Thank you Chris, you have a really great product

[jbear6]

I am running vB 3.7.1, and just installed this addon. The installation seemed to go smoothly, but after refreshing my admin control panel, and clicking on "AddonChat/Account Settings", I received this error message:

"Warning: require_once([path]/includes/functions_addonchat.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/admincp/addonchat.php on line 10

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/jbear6/public_html/includes/functions_addonchat.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/jbear6/public_html/admincp/addonchat.php on line 10"

I don't have a "functions_addonchat.php" file in my includes folder, should I?

Thanks,
Jbear6

[Grim77]

Jbear6 -- Yes, you should. It should have been copied over with all of the other files during the initial installation. In the archive, you'll find the file in the upload/includes folder. You may also want to double check that all of the other files in the includes/ folder (including files in the includes/xml and includes/cron folder) have been uploaded as well.

[jbear6]

Originally Posted by Grim77

Jbear6 -- Yes, you should. It should have been copied over with all of the other files during the initial installation. In the archive, you'll find the file in the upload/includes folder. You may also want to double check that all of the other files in the includes/ folder (including files in the includes/xml and includes/cron folder) have been uploaded as well.

Thanks Chris, the file was there in the archive includes folder. I don't know how I missed it. I uploaded it, and everything is working just fine. Thanks!

Regards,
Jbear6

[andrewc_11890]

How do i enable the directive php allow_url_fopen or how do I know what to put in Account Details box since my Automatic Lookup Did not work?

[kefallon]

When i click addonchat account settings i get a white page url ending
/index.php
how do i remove the files to install from fresh again?

[andrewc_11890]

I am confused as to what to put in the account detail box since the automatic lookup did not work.

[acorndomains.co]

Awesome product, installed and working in minutes with 3.7.1

Buy the commericial version for Vbulletin integration to work, well worth the money

Thanks!