BB| Messenger 1.5

Please press install if you install this hack

Support Can Not Be Given For This Hack

BB|Messenger is a user to user messenger system for vb3 that runs off your user database.

This hack as been made for my own forums and has not been tested on any other forums, so its very likely that errors might be found on other system set up's.

To Install:

upload all the files in the same way that they are in side the zip.

once all files are upload load the page http://www.yourdomain.com/bbmessenger/
note that the address before bbmessenger/ will be the path to the folder on your site.

Follow the install page and your all done.

The only other thing that needs doing is the editing of the address's in the marquee.php file that you upload to your forums root.

Find:

PHP Code:

 echo "<tr>\n";
    echo "<td width=\"$marquee_width\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px inset #000000; background-color: #4C6CA4\" onMouseover=\"this.style.backgroundColor='#607DAE';\" onMouseOut=\"this.style.backgroundColor='#4C6CA4';\">\n";
    echo "<font size=1 face=\"Verdana, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica, Times\">\n";
    echo "<b><a href=\"http://community.ultimate-music.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=" . $latestthread['threadid'] . "\" target='_blank'>" . $latestthread['title'] . "</a></b><br>\n";
    echo "Started by: <a href=\"http://community.ultimate-music.net/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&username=" . $latestthread['postusername'] . "\" target='_blank'>" . $latestthread['postusername'] . "</a><br>\n";
    echo "Last Post by: <a href=\"http://community.ultimate-music.net/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&username=" . $latestthread['lastposter'] . "\" target='_blank'>" . $latestthread['lastposter'] . "</a><br>\n";
    echo $numreplies;
    echo "\n</font>\n";
    echo "</td>\n</tr>\n\n"; 


and edit it to meet your own needs.

User linking to the messenger

put a link anywhere you like on your forums linking to /bbmessenger/index.php

How To's

To edit the colours edit the css in the files in the style folder.

Support

Can not be given via my self due to work load please do not e-mail or pm asking for help in anyway because the reply will more and likely be no, this does not stop user's from helping each other with probs in this topic and if a fix or addon is made i will update the zip with it up on the asking of doing so.

Fix's

1) check your vBulletin cookies Prefix in vb's config file is set to bb like below:

// Prefix that all vBulletin cookies will have
// For example
$cookieprefix = 'bb';

if not set it to the above, if setting it to the above gives you errors with other hacks follow the steps on page 3 for editing messengers cookie call's.

this fix's the login error.

2) https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=164 Zip will get updated when next version is out.

[MindTrix]

Hack = Amazing Would be nice if the images were easier to edit lol that womans annoying me

Umm i uploaded to my forum folder but i always get this message

Sorry, we could not auto-detect what type of forum you are using, please make sure the bbmessenger folder is within your forum's root folder.

[MindTrix]

Bleh i fixed it in the end

[C.Birch]

what did you do to fix incase others have same prob, you dont need to go to that screen to load it you can just put a link on your forums somewhere the java for this is posted somewhere in this topic

[MindTrix]

My ftp didnt upload all the files correctly, simple error But now messages arent going through to anyone :s

Oh and its showing someone whos on it, as offline lol

[Romeos Tune]

Thanks C! What an awesome hack.... These were all ok..... threadid, forumid, title, replycount, lastposter, postuserid, postusername. It was the "thread" that needed to be changed and I must've been tired last night because I was changing it or so I thought... Changed it again this morning and it works perfectly! Thanks again!

Originally Posted by C.Birch

in marquee.php

find:

// connect to the database and pull the info we need.

$latestposts = $DB_site->query("
SELECT threadid, forumid, title, replycount, lastposter, postuserid, postusername
FROM thread
ORDER BY lastpost
DESC LIMIT " . THREAD_LIMIT . ""
);

and if your prefix it vb3 replace the above with:

// connect to the database and pull the info we need.

$latestposts = $DB_site->query("
SELECT vb3_threadid, vb3_forumid, vb3_title, vb3_replycount, vb3_lastposter, vb3_postuserid, vb3_postusername
FROM thread
ORDER BY lastpost
DESC LIMIT " . THREAD_LIMIT . ""
);

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by C.Birch

New main messenger window interface

to use this new interface download the below zip file and upload the bbmessenger folder in it to your forums root, so the files with in it copy other the other bbmessenger files with the same name.

Please note that this interface is a beta interface for a planned v2 and due to this the my status and other buttons down the side apart from the top 2 will not work, there just there ready for when other stuff gets added.

Nice. Just 1 question - did you add any new features or is this update just cosmetic? Asking because I've already modified all your files, and I won't update if it's just cosmetic.

Thanks, mate.

[GamerzWorld]

Originally Posted by nighteyes

Tested this on vb 3.03. Installed fine, was able to login but messages not getting through between different users. I tested myself on two networked computers..... sending messages between two different accounts and nothing arrived. Checked the DB via phpmyadmin and the message entries were there.... messages automatically deleted automatically as expected but never displayed on either messenger screen.

A pity. This looks a great hack... the messenger interface itself looks awesome.

Im getting exactly the same :ermm:

[GamerzWorld]

W00t got it all working Now all i need to do is edit the smilies :S Anyway i can get my smilies from forum?

p.s is there a way to edit @ BB Messenger to @forumdomain.com

[Erwin]

It's an interesting way you have made it check for user permissions - based on cookies. It's causing some issues with some members on my site... but I think I may have fixed it. Will report here if I have. For most members this is working well. I'll see if I can modify this to require global.php, so this can use all the normal vB variables - which means you can use the normal vB style colors, as well as normal vB permissions - no need to add extra queries to do this, plus queries to check censored words etc.

[GamerzWorld]

It would be great if you could intergreate it more. E.g. permissions, maybe avatars from each member forum account , the styles etc. Also shouldnt this be moved into final releases?