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Chat Invitation · **Released**: 02-15-2003

OK. This one was by request. It is most definitely in Beta.

This Hack puts a link on the Who's Online page that if clicked, invites the user to chat in your forum chat room.

1. You will have to do some customization to make this work for your chat system.
2. This is a manual install. Don't go anywhere near it if you don't know how to run queries, update files, create templates, etc.
3. I will support bugs and possibly add new features. However, I will not teach hacking basics in this thread.

Know Issues:
a) Resolved.
b) Currently, the only invitation link is on the Who's Online page. I will probably add it to the user profile later.
c) You are probably going to want to create an invitation icon to use instead of the text link I have. Feel free to share with the rest of us

Features:
a) User Control Panel interface allows members to turn off chat requests.
b) Shows who invited you to chat.

ScreenShots to Follow in subsequent posts.

amykhar · #12 02-16-2003, 08:29 PM

OOPS. You are correct. The url is in the inviteChat.php file. Gotta love beta documentation. Zip File has been updated.

Amy

NuclioN · #13 02-16-2003, 09:35 PM

It works!

As you mentioned this needs urgent adjustments to do this in the chat itself or in reach of you when chatting.

The top in the table is missing on the right...

amykhar · #14 02-16-2003, 10:28 PM

You found another documentation bug.

In the whosonline template

Find:

Code:

$online_pm

Add After:

Code:

<td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}"><smallfont color="{tableheadtextcolor}"><b>Chat</b></smallfont></td>

I have updated the zip.

NuclioN · #15 02-16-2003, 11:10 PM

I wonder...it is possible to generate a who's online in other pages so maybe the same method could be used to display all the members online above the chat togheter with the chatlink?

amykhar · #16 02-16-2003, 11:32 PM

Nucliion, I've got it working on my site. I used 2 other hacks to get things working. I used Tubedog's Who's online on an external page.

I also used this hack: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ight=whos+chat

I am not putting the files into the install or release because they are other people's work. However, I will tell you what I did.

In Tubedog's hack, I made the names into links to the inviteChat.php script. (The same links as on the who's online page)

I then modified the top frame of the other hack to include Tubedog's file and to display at the top of the screen.

That works beautifully. It refreshes the who's online at the top of the chat page every 5 minutes.

Amy

amykhar · #17 02-16-2003, 11:37 PM

Here is a screenshot:

NuclioN · #18 02-17-2003, 12:57 AM

The only hack i don't have is tubedogs hack but i can't see where and how without an example. If you have permission then i would like to test it further.

Tnx so far Amykhar.

amykhar · #19 02-17-2003, 01:38 PM

There is one flaw. If the person doesn't see the popup cause they have just left the board, it pops up when they return and nobody is in chat. I am going to put another field in the database to mark the invitation time and clear it if it has been longer than 15 minutes.

Amy

Intex · #20 02-17-2003, 02:49 PM

Cool hack m8. Does it work with other versions of vB?

amykhar · #21 02-17-2003, 02:54 PM

Try it and see. I only have 2.2.9 installed. I am 99% sure that it does though.

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