Add-On Releases - Official AddonChat Product

vBulletin 3.7.x Official Integration & Authentication Extension

Product Info
Name: AddonChat Official Integration Product
Product ID: ac80_37
Version: 3.7.0
Author: AddonInteractive (http://www.addoninteractive.com/)
Last Modified: 15 May. 2008
Compatibility: vBulletin 3.7.x

Overview
This extension allows you to fully integrate a AddonChat Free, Professional, Professional PLUS or Enterprise Java? Chat Room with your vBulletin 3.7 forum system. This script provides basic integration for AddonChat Free and Professional customers. Remote authentication (the ability to secure access to your chat room using your vBulletin username/passwords) is available for Pro+/Enterprise customers, as well as a Who's Chatting feature.

Requirements

• vBulletin 3.7 or higher
• AddonChat Free, Professional PLUS, or Enterprise, or AddonChat Professional with the Remote (HTTP) Authentication System. You may register for a AddonChat account at www.addonchat.com. A Professional PLUS or Enterprise account is recommended to take advantage of advanced features.
• (optional, but recommended) PHP with allow_url_fopen directive enabled in your php.ini file or the PHP CURL extension. This is required to download the Who's Chatting list from AddonChat servers.

What's new?
This script is a completely revamped edition of our previous integration script. Installation no longer requires any template or code modifications. Additionally, there are no PHP files to edit when setting up your chat room. We have added an "AddonChat" menu item in the vBulletin AdminCP that allows you to setup and configure your chat room with ease. Most users will simply need to enter their account number and password (as used at addonchat.com) and your chat room settings will be retrieved automatically, with your remote authentication system updated automatically as well. We have also improved character code support through better UTF-8 conversion allowing non-English speakers to use a vBulletin+AddonChat without issue. Issues relating to the Who's Chatting system causing problems have also been addresses; a scheduled task has been added to automatically optimize and repair AddonChat related tables daily in addition to improvements to the re-written Who's Chatting system.

Features

• Seamless integration between your vBulletin forum and AddonChat
• After installation, setup and configure your chat room from the AddonChat menu in your vBulletin Admin Control Panel
• Popup and Embedded Chat room link options
• Automatic (ten minute interval) User's Chatting count updates
• Real-Time Who's Chatting list
• Display the amount of users within your chat room on your main navbar shown throughout your entire forum
• Remote authentication allows you to authenticate access into your chat room based on your vBulletin user database
• Automatic user login option
• Seamless integration with vBulletin Usergroup permissions (remote authentication)
• Remote functions system allows you to tie in vBulletin forum functions into the AddonChat user menu
• Uses the vBulletin XML product import architecture, making installation/uninstallation simple.
• No code or template modifications required
• Automated account lookup - just enter your account number and password, and your information will be automatically retrieved. (allow_url_fopen must be enabled in PHP)
• Multi-lingual (UTF-8) support

Installation
Installaion takes less than five minutes. Download the supplied ZIP file, and extract it on your personal computer. Open the readme.txt file for full installation instructions. No PHP code modifications or template modifications are required. This script makes use of the vBulletin XML Product system for a fast and painless installation.

Support
Support is provided by AddonInteractive for this script provided you have a Professional, Professional PLUS or Enterprise AddonChat account. Read the included instructions for details. Please let us know if you have any problems installing this extension.

[steve1966]

Hi I have installed this add on signed up for a free acount i canot see a link in my navbar or quicklink how do i get this working please

[tuwebfacil]

Originally Posted by Hamumu

I contacted Addonchat support about this and their answer basically came down to "ask Vbulletin", so I'm asking you folks here... I was using the 3.6 integration with vb3.6, and life was good. I upgraded to v3.7, and got this integration package, and life is still good, except for one major problem: my users (and myself) are being timed out of the chat if we are inactive for more than 10 or 15 minutes. The timeout is disabled in my addonchat settings, so the addonchat people are mystified as to what is causing this. Anybody have an idea?

same thing its happening to me.

[dollster68]

Please help. I've installed the files, and I've signed up for an account. I received an email with my account id and password, but when I enter it into the AdminCP settings I get the following error:

Error setting remote authentication URL.

This error is most likely caused by entering an incorrect account number, password or an invalid authentication URL. This error can also be caused if you do not have a Professional PLUS or Enterprise account, or if you do not have the Remote Authentication module.

Please verify your account number, password and authentication URL and try your request again.


Not sure how to proceed from here.

[Fungsten]

Originally Posted by dollster68

Please help. I've installed the files, and I've signed up for an account. I received an email with my account id and password, but when I enter it into the AdminCP settings I get the following error:

Error setting remote authentication URL.

This error is most likely caused by entering an incorrect account number, password or an invalid authentication URL. This error can also be caused if you do not have a Professional PLUS or Enterprise account, or if you do not have the Remote Authentication module.

Please verify your account number, password and authentication URL and try your request again.


Not sure how to proceed from here.

Is it the free account? I don't think it works with that.

[dollster68]

Originally Posted by Fungsten

Is it the free account? I don't think it works with that.

Yes, it's the free account. So, are you saying that a free account doesn't actually work with vbulletin?

[Fungsten]

Originally Posted by dollster68

Yes, it's the free account. So, are you saying that a free account doesn't actually work with vbulletin?

It does. But leave it out and see what happens. It could also be the authentication url. Leave that out first then try it. I had a couple of problems with the free version and I can't remember which entry it was.

[dollster68]

I think I may have figured out a work-around. I analized the email that I received and saw that the link referenced a certain client in the code. I selected that client and it seems to work fine. For the port, I just left it as whatever was there already.

[TacticalNuke]

I have a couple of questions I was hoping somebody could help me with. First, can we expect continued integration support and hacks? And second, I'm having trouble deciding which version to get (pro, pro-plus, etc.). I'm looking for basic functionality right now but may want to expand in the future. I run a fairly small forum (most users online has been 16 so far) but want room to expand.

Thanks.

[shavedaccord]

Any way to embed this onto the FORUMHOME page, so we don't have to use it on a separate page or a floating popup? Like other shout/chat boxes on here.

[swift535]

Spent entirely too long troubleshooting something just now and figured I'd share the solution for others that run into the same thing.

The Plugin does conflict with Vbadvanced cmps. I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't load until I removed the addonchat.php files from being integrated into my pages. Once addon chat is no longer integrated within vba cmps, it worked fine.

As far as I can tell this doesn't have any adverse effects. Everything still looks just as it should and is working properly.

The only problem I have left, is I don't know how to exclude the addonchat files from integration with the default Homepage page that cmps has. Hopefully I'll get that figured out tomorrow, because right now you still can't enter the chat from that individual page.