Integration with vBulletin - FlashChat - Who is in the chat.

This modification is no longer available or supported.

This is a simple display of who is currently chatting in FlashChat - on the forum homepage display.

The main features of Version 4.xx are basically the same as previous versions ;

1. It displays the list on Forum Home with the "Users online" display.
2. The list view is collapsable, so you see just the number.
3. Users who should display as coloured or bold etc are displayed correctly (based on the display usergroup)
4. If you 'hover' over a username it will show the room they are chatting in and their status (away etc).
5. If the chat is empty, a simple "no one is chatting" message is displayed.
6. The hack is now phrased.
7. The ability to turn it on/off is in the ACP Forum Home Options.
8. The ability to allow only certain usergroups to view the list is an ACP option.
9. The location of the flashchat folder is now an ACP option (vBulletin Options > Forums Home Page Options).

Unzip the XML and import into vB using the ACP Product Manager.

To upgrade from version 4.10 onwards, you need to re-import the product with the overwrite option set to yes. To upgrade from version 4.02 to version 4.10 onwards, you need to uninstall the product and remove the template code in FORUMHOME - then upload the new product. To upgrade from version 3.xx to version 4.xx you need to delete the existing plugin and remove the template code in FORUMHOME - then upload the new product.

* An add-on to display a 'Most ever chatters' count is available here.


Note: This hack cannot display any bots in the chat, due to the strange way that flashchat stores this information. Please also note that I am not Tufat.com or anything to do with the Flashchat product - if you have questions about Flashchat in general, their forums are here.


History:

v4.10 : Removed the need to edit the FORUMHOME template.
v4.11 : Hyperlinked display icon to chat page. Added vb number formatting to count.
v4.12 : Added ALT tag to above hyperlink.
v4.13 : Updated ACP view permission option to take into account secondary groups.
v4.14 : Added 'nofollow' attribute to listed usernames.
v4.15 : Restricted list based on flashchat autologout parameter, to get round the issue of connections not being cleaned up.
v4.16 : Minor changes, no update necessary.
v4.17 : Added members status to hover information.
v4.18 : Re-wrote status code to take account of custom status definitions.

[TitanJeff]

Quick question: If I want it to say "Who is in the chat room" instead of "Who is in FlashChat", how can I do that?

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by TitanJeff

Quick question: If I want it to say "Who is in the chat room" instead of "Who is in FlashChat", how can I do that?

Edit the 'using_flashchat' phrase.

[emtee]

Thanks for this, but this version of who's in chat it doesn't work with FlashChat 4.4.1. I edit the prefix from fc_ to flashchat_ and it looks ok, but when there are users in the chat, it still reports no users in chat. Any idea ?

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by emtee

Thanks for this, but this version of who's in chat it doesn't work with FlashChat 4.4.1.

Erm, yes it does, perfectly.

So I'm afraid you have done something wrong.

[PsiNyde]

b/c default prefix for integrating [from my experience] is _fc_

[Paul M]

Actually, for a new installation it will normally be 'flashchat_'

( _fc_ was the old hardcoded prefix in the 3.0 CMS file).

I've seen many installations that have both sets of tables .........

[dragon_1973]

Can I request a new feature to this plugin? With the new version, it modifies (or inserts code) in the FORUMHOME template.

Can you also, in that block, add a link for users to actually get in the chat from the block? Right now I have to modify some other template to give my users a link to get into the chat.

[Paul M]

The code it inserts is the "Display_Chatters" template, just modify that to add your link.

[dragon_1973]

Yea... that works...

Thanks for the great, simple to use plugin!

[am-fs]

Need some help Please

1 problem and 1 question

1st were does the vbulletin35cms.php file go, in the chat folder or the forum root?

problem i recieve after importing plug

Warning: Unknown(./http://xxxxx.com/forum/chat/inc/config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /index.php(63) : eval()'d code on line 34

Fatal error: (null)(): Failed opening required './http://xxxxx.com/forum/chat/inc/config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /home/httpd/vhosts//xxxxx.com/httpdocs/forum/index.php(63) : eval()'d code on line 34

i have set the "home page option" to the path then the url, and still recieve the error on the forum home.

any idea what i messed up or didnt do.
thanks