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.

[C.Birch]

Originally Posted by M1th

Asking this again, is there a way which we could restrict this to Staff only? I've tried adding permission checks but it doesnt work.

there is a away to do it, you can edit the database and the bbsettings table i think it is and edit the info for the banned users groups this will tell them there banned if trying to load the messenger

[dndog]

Originally Posted by M1th

Asking this again, is there a way which we could restrict this to Staff only? I've tried adding permission checks but it doesnt work.

Password protect the directory to the bbmessenger and don't tell any of the users...

[M1th]

Actually, C.Birch's idea worked. I added the usergroup ids to the banned column via phpmyadmin. Thanks.

[MindTrix]

nope i dont believe it does. Its just odd because not a single member receives a message.

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by C.Birch

what version of vb3 are you running?

it says vb 2. something

[Lurk]

this is for vBulletin 3.0.x

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by Lurk

this is for vBulletin 3.0.x

he says it works for both vb2 and vb3
everything works only a lil fatar error....

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by C.Birch

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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.

One Question what am i suppose to do with the Install.inc.php????

When i load thed page it says black.....do i really need dis? could dis be the problem?? caz everything else works fine....

[solboy]

Originally Posted by C.Birch

dont forget msn is software where just useing php and java things have to reload so the page can update with the new text.

yes av's are planned but like i say i dont have much free time so can not support and do much more work on this but keep ideas coming because anyones free to make stuff for this be it new ideas or fix's.

Yeah!
I am sure some hacker is working on his own version now.

[C.Birch]

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

it says vb 2. something

thats your prob then, this is for vb3. for it to work on vb2 you need to remove the latest topics part.