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!

[camomouse]

Originally Posted by Ideal Web Tech

Thank you for posting this link. The reason your bottom bar isn't work is that for some reason the wrong document type is being returned.

Now that we know what the problem is, we will be looking into a cause for it, as well as a fix for it!

I'm haveing this same issues. Look forward to the fix. Thank you.

[Robru]

Thank you, for sharing this mod

[sticky]

This is pretty cool, simple and nice.

How do you see everyone who is online though not just your friends? Or does it have to just be friends?

Also, can the size of the message boxes be changed? For example in the demo the chat room is way too small.

Are there admin controls to ban users from chat rooms, etc.?

[sticky]

One problem in the demo.

I have a chatroom open and minimize it then browse the forum. Why does it pop up on every page load instead of staying minimized?

[sticky]

Any way to set yourself as away or not show you are online?

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by Sayrex

Hi ,
how RTL to LTR for Arabic, Persian, ... language ?

Right now I'm not sure it will support RTL fully, but we can look into that for a later version.

Originally Posted by sticky

This is pretty cool, simple and nice.

How do you see everyone who is online though not just your friends? Or does it have to just be friends?

Also, can the size of the message boxes be changed? For example in the demo the chat room is way too small.

Are there admin controls to ban users from chat rooms, etc.?

It only shows mutual friends.

The size can not be changed currently (Unless you want to edit the css manually), but have plans to add in a pop-out chat feature.

There is a setting for who all is banned from using the chat, and in the future we will have a much more advanced ban system in place.

Originally Posted by sticky

One problem in the demo.

I have a chatroom open and minimize it then browse the forum. Why does it pop up on every page load instead of staying minimized?

Yes, we have noticed that. It is a bug that only exists in the version, and should be fixed in the next version, sorry.

Originally Posted by sticky

Any way to set yourself as away or not show you are online?

Right now you can disable the bar and it will show you as offline, but we have some plans in the works to allow similar functionality while the bar is still open. (Not sure it will make the next version though.)

[danhaga]

I just installed this and its not working. Clicking "Friends Online" just displays a never ending progress bar. Clicking chat room or settings is totally unresponsive.

Also, once working Id like for this to show all online not just friends since I have friends disabled on my board, is this possible?

FYI. I enabled friends for the testing of this mod.

[mikem164]

hmmm, OK I updated and it now pulls Profile pic instead of Avatar, no one uses profile pic, I need avatar back. Then I think we are good. Nice job. Thanks, Mike

[SuperDude]

Looks great!!!! I just wonder why Cometchat are so expensive, and how great its could be if it was free plugin, like the one you made
thank you very much!! I really appreciate your job!
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[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by danhaga

I just installed this and its not working. Clicking "Friends Online" just displays a never ending progress bar. Clicking chat room or settings is totally unresponsive.

Also, once working Id like for this to show all online not just friends since I have friends disabled on my board, is this possible?

FYI. I enabled friends for the testing of this mod.

We are investigating this issue, and looking into a fix.

Originally Posted by mikem164

hmmm, OK I updated and it now pulls Profile pic instead of Avatar, no one uses profile pic, I need avatar back. Then I think we are good. Nice job. Thanks, Mike

The avatars should be fixed in the new version that should be released either today or tomorrow.

Originally Posted by SuperDude

Looks great!!!! I just wonder why Cometchat are so expensive, and how great its could be if it was free plugin, like the one you made
thank you very much!! I really appreciate your job!
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Thank you, your appreciation is much appreciated!