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.

[basilrath]

is there "whos chatting" option / feature as this is pretty important in my opinion

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Grim77

Boofo -- You may have to edit the addonchat_nav_link template to get it to match your custom template. Some custom styles seem to be doing some fairly exhaustive template modifications instead of just changing the associated CSS with the <TD> column. Usually it's just a matter of getting the addonchat_nav_link <td...> values to look similar to your other nav link settings.

Well, the way the TD is wrapping everything I think it was the problem is. It seems to affect the rest of the template if I change the class on the first TD. And since I suck at html, it is boggling the ol' mind. But I will eventually figure something out, one way or the other.

[Grim77]

Originally Posted by basilrath

is there "whos chatting" option / feature as this is pretty important in my opinion

Yes, it's listed in the features

[Grim77]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Well, the way the TD is wrapping everything I think it was the problem is. It seems to affect the rest of the template if I change the class on the first TD. And since I suck at html, it is boggling the ol' mind. But I will eventually figure something out, one way or the other.

If you find anything that we may have missed in our code, or have any suggestions to make it compatible with yours and other templates, please let me know!

[Mrdby]

this version doesn't have to many good features... i'll still to flashchat.

[Grim77]

Originally Posted by Mrdby

this version doesn't have to many good features... i'll still to flashchat.

Very constructive. Still to whatever you like.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Grim77

If you find anything that we may have missed in our code, or have any suggestions to make it compatible with yours and other templates, please let me know!

You see, I like that. You're willing to listen to suggestions and work with your customers. If the support is going to be this good all along, I will definitely be upgrading. I just have to get the site to donate something first.

I did notice that in the free version there are no bold or underline buttons. I would have figured that would be a given. Not that is is a big deal.

[basilrath]

Originally Posted by Mrdby

this version doesn't have to many good features... i'll still to flashchat.

It seems great to me and lets face it Flashchat can still be exploited it seems.

Nice work me thinks and thanks for the support also

Ill be adding it soon.

[Barakat]

wow realy thanks a lotttttttttttttttttttttt

[SuperTaz]

Any difference between this mod and flashchat?