Chat Modifications - Envolve Chat Integration Module

About the Envolve Chat Plugin
This module will connect your vBulletin forum to Envolve chat. Envolve is a chat toolbar similar to Facebook's chat bar that allows your users to have group and one-on-one chats with each other while browsing your forums.

This mod requires an API key from Envolve in order to function. Visit http://www.envolve.com to get one. A free version is available that provides a full feature set for up to 25 concurrent users. Higher numbers of chatters require a paid account.

This mod integrates your forum's account system with Envolve so that when users are logged into your vBulletin site it also logs them into the chat. In addition, it integrates your profile pictures / avatars and profile information. With the 2.0 release of the mod, other users can now view your profile information and get a link to your profile simply by placing their mouse over your name.

The Envolve chat system is a rich solution for community chat. Some of its features include group chat (both public and private), one-on-one chat, the ability to pop chats out into their own windows, moderation controls (boot / block / ban / timed ban), chat message translation, resizable chat windows, chat sharing, and drag-and-drop chat invitations. As a hosted solution, all chat traffic is handled by Envolve's servers and will not place any additional load on your server.

Installation:
Detailed installation instructions can be found here:
https://www.envolve.com/docs/vbulletin-chat-plugin.html. They are also provided in the Readme.txt file.
You can see and try out the chat at http://www.envolve.com.

This version of the mod will work for both vBulletin 4.x and vBulletin 3.8.x.

Screenshots:
Here the "People List" can be seen open in the lower right hand corner of the page. This shows all users who are currently viewing the forum. This site owner has chosen to only allow logged-in users to chat.


Here a public group chat has been opened, and the user has moused-over another user to see his profile information.


Here a user is creating a new group chat that will be shown to the other users on the site. He has also "popped-out" the "General" chat into its own window.

[SBlueman]

Just installed this on a 3.8.6 site, going with the free option for now. So far so good over at gridironfans.com.

[blackcat123]

Hello,

the Envolve Chat is not displayed on VBAdvanced? Why?

[GhostHunter2010]

hi how can u hide the new chat an general chat i wanna leave just person here.. please any idea thx

[GhostHunter2010]

never mind dont like it unistalled not safe for me dont like it

[MagiKelly]

I enabled this again to see if it had improved. immediately slowed the site down to a snails pace. Is it really only me that gets this experiance?

[chowder]

Very very nice! Wish it wasn't so expensive for 25 users though.

[saadessa]

very nice!thank you

[fahris]

hi am having an error on the site as the site administrator

Page transitions that error:

you have been from banned that chat

[kylek]

Anyone have issues with the chat disappearing on the forum main page? At times you go to the site and hit the forum main page, the envolve chat doesn't show. Then I go to another section of the site, like arcade for example, it shows. Then go back to forum main page and its there. Another admin on our site using google says to get it to show to her on the forum main page, she logs out, then back on, then she can see the envolve chat.

[smgxtreme]

After messing with the codes I figured out how to change the "dark" text input box for custom skins.

Go to: -> AdminCP -> Style Manager -> Edit Template (select custom template) -> CSS Templates and edit "additional.css"

Add the following code to the bottom of additional.css

.GF3XLO3BES * textarea, .GF3XLO3BES * textbox {
	background:#ffffff;
background-color: #ffffff !important;
color: #000000;
border: 1px solid #0c0c0c;
}

.GF3XLO3BAO {
	background:#ffffff;
background-color: #ffffff !important;
width: 130px;
}