Chat Modifications - Flashchat 5 or 6 : Integration for vBulletin 3.8

This modification is no longer available or supported.

Note: I no longer use Flashchat, and development and support of it at Tufat appears to have died in 2010.

Flashchat 5 integration with vBulletin 3.8.

Note: This is compatible with Flashchat 5.0.x only, it will not work with Flashchat 4.

* Flashchat 5 is no longer available - this should work with Flashchat 6, but this is not a supported option *

Note:
Standard Flashchat includes vBulletin integration as part of the Tufat supplied files. However, the standard integration does not include Direct Usergroup Integration or other extra's like the WOL Display & Flashchat on a vBulletin page. This Modification adds those features


Extra's added by this modification

* Direct login to a room.
* The WOL will correctly display Flashchat as the location (not 'Unknown Location')
* Flashchat can be displayed embedded inside a 'standard' vBulletin Page (i.e. not full screen).
* Direct Usergroup Integration - a section is added to each usergroup in the ACP Usergroup Manager to set the Flashchat permissions for that group.
* The plugin will try to automatically add a link to Flashchat in your Navbar Quick Links or Community Links - this feature can be disabled if you wish.
* The automatic link can have a prefix path defined - useful if you use something like CMPS.
* You can define a usergroup to login as Flashchats "Spy" mode.


More notes:

* This integration is for Flashchat version 5 only.
* The automatic link feature may fail if you have customised templates (it uses template hooks).
* For Flashchat inside a vBulletin page you need to link to .../misc.php?do=flashchat
* This modification does not add any links to Flashchat Administration in the ACP.
* You can set all members to login direct to particular room via the ACP.
* You can also add a room parameter to the url - i.e. .../misc.php?do=flashchat&room=3
* Spys can login into the chat but are not listed in the room - they cannot chat, just watch.

The CMS file assumes that you are installing Flashchat in your forum root folder i.e. (/forums/chat/) - this is the same folder as your usercp.php file and includes folder. Installation will fail if you do not do this.

Support: This modification is no longer supported. Please check the instructions, and make sure you have uploaded any files to the correct location - the vast majority of problems reported are due to an error made in editing or uploading files.

Finally, I am not Tufat.com or Flashchat Support - if you have questions about Flashchat, their forums are here.

To use the this upgraded integration simply download and unzip the file, then follow the instructions in the text file. Once installed, the Flashchat userlevel options for each usergroup will appear in the ACP usergroup edit screens - editing of the CMS file will no longer be required.


History:

v3.8.001 : First release for vb 3.8.
v3.8.002 : Fixed who is online location to work with FC 5.

[choccyclaire]

Ok thank you I will test.

[Paul M]

AFAIK, Flashchat 5 is defunct and no longer available. Im not sure if version 4 is downloadable anymore either.

[SSG.D]

Loaded FC 6.06 With Paul's 3.8 integration. Everything worked for me but not my members. (invalid user name or password)

My remedy:

During the install of tufat's FC I selected my version vb 3.8 I then took Paul's vbulletin40.php and copy and pasted everything from // Initialise CMS // on down,, to my vbulletin38php and click save. The key element I found was to leave all the files in the inc/cmses folder in tact. I tried just leaving the vbulletin38.php stand alone but what happend was the buttons and input area did not load. So I put all the files back and boom everything worked.

I'm no coder so I could not tell you why it works for me and my members now but it dose. I'm using the free version for now to evaluate it. So far so good.

Thanks Paul Great work m8

[Itchy Nips]

i uninstalled this and it still appears on the left column in admincp. how do I remove that?

[Paul M]

Remove whatever modification is adding it.

More notes:

* This modification does not add any links to Flashchat Administration in the ACP.

[Sevo]

yes, 4.7 is available for DL. If I am still running VB 3.8 what integration will work for 4.7. I tried to Dl 5.0 but it is not avail?

Thanks Paul for all the help

[Paul M]

If you look in the 3.8 section of my profile you will find the 4.x versions.

[sixxkilur]

Originally Posted by Dumpfbacke1999

Hey together

today @ afternoon i installed this Add-on. @ afternoon it works great. But now i become this message, when i log in admin panel:

Fatal error: Call to a member function next() on a non-object in /myhost/mydomain.com/websites/forum/chat/inc/cmses/statelessCMS.php on line 130

And when i want to login in chat, i become just the background of the flash chat. Why?

I hope, that somebody can helb me and read my bad english!

This happend to me after install this addon everything worked but i noticed in the admin the CMS was set to stateless and when attempting to set it back to vBulletin 3.8 there was no option higher than vBulletin 3.6 so i reloaded page and checked again no go so i changed a setting on the lower half of the page for some other options like themes etc and soon as i cliked save it saved the stateless and returned that error, logging in gave the background of chat only like the guy above. d/l the file you directed him to and uploaded it to the chat/admin/ dir and reloded admin page then set FlashChat to use vBulletin 3.8 saved changes and everything seems to be working now.
where can I get the Who's Chatting addon to show on my forum's main page I used to have untill server hdd died?

[LeatherNeck]

working beautifully with flashchat v6.0.7 on vb3.8.2 thanks paul ****INSTALLED****

[stardotstar]

Hi guys, I have noticed that the only mention of FC6.x integration with vB centers around vB4 which is understandable but based on LeatherNeck's encouraging post I decided to do an upgrade to FC6.0.7 and it has taken a bit of stuffing around for me to get to the point where I think it is going to be possible to live with it.

I had to enter the config and ensure my user groups were correctly defined and then with the permissions set in the usergroups users can use the chat; but there is no admin access for me at all and I am a bit confused as to why that may be...

when I try to access the ./forums/chat/admin/index.php
I get a pure white page (no source) and when trying to do the admincp integration from Mosh https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=194784 which worked for Version 5 (which of course it was released for) I see the admin panel options but I get blank admin main panels when I select the options.

So I am sort of stuck with how to admin the chat. I am starting to look at the ways that this can be done in the configs manually - as for the user groups - but if I can get to the bottom as to why I am getting the white pages and so on I would appreciate it.

Paul, I know that your integration is not for version 6 and so I may have to start up a general discussion thread for this but, as I say, with the encouraging post from combat-evolved I thought I'd try and if anyone has had this before becuase its something silly I have done then I may get some help.

Thanks as always for awesome code and generosity with your hacks and support!

Will