Flashchat: Who is chatting

This modification is no longer available or supported.

This is a simple ForumHome display of who is currently using your Flashchat.

Version 2.20 is for use with Flashchat 4.1.x - however, it may work with older versions of Flashchat if set-up correctly.

The main features of Version 2.xx are ;

1. It displays the list on Forum Home with the "Users online" display.

2. The list view is collapsable, so you just see the number.

3. Users who should display as coloured or bold etc should be displayed correctly. (based on the display usergroup)

4. If you 'hover' over a username it will show the room they are chatting in.

5. If the chat is empty, a simple "no one is chatting" message is displayed.


Note: This will not display the names of any bots in the chat, due to the strange way that flashchat stores this information.


With help from Cyricx a CPMS module is located in this post. (Version 2.20 only, unsupported - use at your own risk).

[Paul M]

Well since it seems to work ok, I have uploaded it as Version 2.10.

[NFLForums]

Installed times 2 so far...
I have 3 different forums...The third is on it's way soon, I have to install flashchat to it first!

[NFLForums]

err wait a second...I don't think I even want to think about going up to 4.0.1 at this point -- I was already having enough issues with 3.9.6...

(man alive...I'm glad I got the 3.9.6 before it upgraded...If there are that many problems -- since they are *oh so helpful* on the flashchat forums :S)

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by NFLForums

err wait a second...I don't think I even want to think about going up to 4.0.1 at this point -- I was already having enough issues with 3.9.6...

(man alive...I'm glad I got the 3.9.6 before it upgraded...If there are that many problems -- since they are *oh so helpful* on the flashchat forums :S)

Yep, I would stick with 3.9.6 unless you have the patience to sort out 4.0.1 and it's problems.

I noticed how "helpful" they are on the fc forum when I posted yesterday. I really can't understand why they have added all this "bots" crap either, I haven't come across anyone who wants to chat to a flipping robot.

[Mr_Bob]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Yep, I would stick with 3.9.6 unless you have the patience to sort out 4.0.1 and it's problems.

I noticed how "helpful" they are on the fc forum when I posted yesterday. I really can't understand why they have added all this "bots" crap either, I haven't come across anyone who wants to chat to a flipping robot.

It was one of the most suggested features, everyone wanted FlashChat to have as much simularity bewtween good o'l IRC as possible. The bots are a nice additiopn, I just wish they waited a little longer before releasing a version where bots won't work in CMS intergration.

[memobug]

Hi Mr. Bob,

I did get my install of 4.0.1 working with vbulletin 3.0.7 and yes the bots are silly but even that seems to be working now.

I wish I could tell you exactly what made the difference. I am using the CMS2 verison and the prefix is finally reading in as _fc_, which is what it seems to want. I have no idea why the installer wasn't pulling in the right database & prefix info, but it suddenly started finding what it needed. I am using absolute paths in the CMS2 to my install which is in /root/chat not /root/forum/chat.

The problem I am trying to resolve now is incorporating /chat/info.php output using vbulletin's phpinclude_start template. I am having problems that I didn't have with 3.9.6. I don't want to clutter the thread here - so that discussion is going on in Tufat - http://www.tufat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5779

at least it would be going on if the moderator there didn't want me to fill the "Code Depot" with half baked code.

I am afraid, after all that effort it is back to 3.9.6 for me!

Regards,

Matt

[Hanif]

Paul,

I've installed this hack however I'm trying to get the User Count to work and not having much joy

my config.serve.php has those values as the ones below(of course hidden)

and I can't get the count thing to work apart from that it looks fine.

I can send you any further info as well if need be.

I'm running vb 3.07 and the Flash chat as 4.0 or above

<?php
$GLOBALS['fc_config']['db'] = array(
'host' => 'localhost',
'user' => 'sqluser',
'pass' => 'password',
'base' => 'database',
'pref' => '',
// 'pref' => 'flashchat_',
);
?>

Look forward to your help.

Kind regards,

Hanif

[Paul M]

Did you install FC 4.0.x from scratch ? What table prefix did you choose during the installation ? (you appear to have commented out the "flashchat_" choice in your config above).

A link, and test login to your site would be useful as well.

[Hanif]

Hiya Paul,

Your the man...thanks for getting in touch dude.

Link is www.muslimprofessionals.org.uk/forums

I had the vb3_fc chat for 4.0 install and prior to that I had vb3 during the old one. I can access the chat and it logs in if a user account is recognised and accepted...??? Strange

I've PMed you a login for a test account.

Kindest regards,

Hanif

[Paul M]

I have found your problem.

In the code near the top is this ;

// ## Paul M - Flashchat - Who is in the chat v2.10 ## //
// ## Make sure the folder name defined below is the correct name of your flashchat installation folder ## //
$fcfolder = 'flashchat';

You haven't edited this variable to "chat" rather than "flashchat" - So the hack is still looking at your old flashchat, which I discovered is still installed. If I log into the old version it shows me on the forumhome.