Flasherize Chat Room

[dknelson]

That may work. Can it be integrated into VBulletin for automatic login and etc?

hmmm........the integrated solution looks very difficult to install.

[smacklan]

Originally Posted by Transverse Styles

check out userplane.com

haha...nice James, you don't recommend the script you wrote any longer?

[FleaBag]

Originally Posted by smacklan

The script is in the hands of my developer as we speak adding some new features to it...I'll ask him to look at that possibility

That would be sweet, and a guaranteed buy from me. vBa 3 is changing how my whole site works, everything needs to work with it for me. Stats modules and who's chatting e.t.c. would be great. Cool.

[efc9]

This is a really nice ChatRoom, I purchased and installed yesterday wtihout problem, theres just a few things holding it back from being the complete chat solution for my users.

True Autologin Right one the first visit to the chatroom you haveto enter your username and password, the fields are already filled with "username" & "*****" which does not clear when the fields are clicked upon, this has confused some of my older users, so have a true autologin whereby the vbulletin username and password are entered automatically and you go straight into the chat on clicking the link would be great.

Emoticons This was one of the biggest disappointments with this chat, right now each emoticon takes up it's own line so "Hello Hows Everyone " takes up four lines rather than just one.. for now I've just disabled the parsing of emoticons by commenting out the str_replace in the chatroom.php but it'd be nice to have this fixed in the next version.

Multiple Rooms It'd be great to have the option to create password protected rooms away from the main room for staff chats or whatever.

Chatlogs We used Flashchat previously and one of it's more useful features was being able to save a log of the complete chat, this was great for our weekly staff chats as we could then post the transcript in the staff forum for those that missed the chat we are really going to miss this feature so if it could be added it'd be great.

And that's about it.. I'd say right now it does what it says on the tin in a lightweight manner using a very nice interface.. It is just a few steps away from being an excellent chatroom for us..

[smacklan]

Thanks for the review efc9...and the purchase! Actually points one and three are being addressed in the current development...a release anticipated in about a month! I will see about the emoticon issue for this next release as well. On the chat logs, actually they are saved and accessable via the admin interface

[efc9]

No Problems, it's a nice product and deserves to receive some credit for the work already done, and if the problems above can indeed be ironed out then it'll be excellent and I'll happily recommend it to all..

I look forward to the next release, and if you need a beta tester let me know..

The logs in the admincp are useful but not as handy as being able to save an actual .txt file log of the chat for posting in the forum..

[SABRSox]

What about the possibility of adding Audio Emoticons to Flasherize? The users at my site desperately want this feature, ideally with the ability to customize or add sounds to fit our site's needs.

[cOuNtErFiET]

can you fill me in on the load ans stuff for the server, how many queries will it add to integrate vb...etc etc...im interested also can ban users by their vb usergroup? or is this open to whoever registers? and they can keep signing up with alter-egos and stuff?

[smacklan]

Originally Posted by SABRSox

What about the possibility of adding Audio Emoticons to Flasherize? The users at my site desperately want this feature, ideally with the ability to customize or add sounds to fit our site's needs.

With our next release, the end user will be able to control the smilies unlike now. I'm not sure how those would work with flash remoting (the way the script works) but it's a possibility I'd say.

Originally Posted by cOuNtErFiET

can you fill me in on the load ans stuff for the server, how many queries will it add to integrate vb...etc etc...im interested also can ban users by their vb usergroup? or is this open to whoever registers? and they can keep signing up with alter-egos and stuff?

The load is negligible as it only queries the user database when someone signs in. Whatever you do to your users through usergroups, etc. will pass to the chat room with forum integration. In other words, if they can sign in to your board, they can sign in to the chat room.

[smacklan]

Just an update to those in this thread that have inquired...Version 3.0 of Flasherize has now been released You can read the details at http://www.flasherize.com/forums/ind...st=0&#entry952