Chat Modifications - Ideal Chat Lite (facebook style bottom chat/chatroom bar) v1.3.0

This modification adds a bottom bar chat system to your board.

Features

• Friend?s Online List (mutal or all friends)
• Integration with vBulletin's ignore system so users can block messages from people they want
• General Chat Room
• User-to-User Chat
  • Chat with friends
• Support for infinite number of open chats
• Automatic Updating of chat messages
• New message indicators
  • Indicator on Chat Tab for new messages
  • A sound plays for new messages
  • Page title flashes for new messages
  • Indicator for new messages on tabs out of view
• Multiple window support
  • Supports users having your site open in multiple windows/tabs
  • Changes in one window automatically apply to other windows
• Automatically disables chat bar for mobile browsers
  • Help save bandwidth for your mobile users

Settings

• Admin Settings
  • Chat online
  • Ban individual users from chat
  • Update stream time limit
  • Update stream delay
  • Settings & Chat Room link Positions
    • Change where the links show at, or hide them all-together
• Usergroup Settings
  • Can use chat
  • Can use chat room
• User Settings
  • Hide Chat bar
  • New message notification method

Change Log
For a full list of changes, please visit: http://community.idealwebtech.com/in...ngelog&file=15

Installation/Upgrade
See included readme file.

Demo
You can see a demo here (You can can register a new account, or use the Login, "Ideal Chat Demo", and password, "chatdemo") This demo is of the pro version which can be found here!

Support
This modification is released for free, and as such we don't officially support it; however, as time permits we will try to offer support on it. We will NOT be monitoring this thread on a daily basis, your best bet for a fast reply would be to go post here.

Common Issues/Topics
Chat Bar Don't Show Up?
Have you configured the usergroup settings? This is the most common issue we see, and 99% of the time it is due to usergroup settings not being configured properly. So if your bar is not showing up, please verify your usergroup settings before reporting it as an issue.

Messages Don't Show Up?
We are aware of an issue causing messages to not show up for some people, and are looking into fixes.

Modification Has Conflict With Another Product
There is always a chance that two products will conflict with each other! We are aware of some, but please feel free to tell us about any products you find to conflict via our Bug Tracker on our site.

Chat Doesn't Support Certain Characters
The chat can only support the characters your board itself can support! If you would like to support certain characters, you must have your board using a charset that supports them. We have only ever once noticed a chat that didn't support every character the board did, and we are looking in it.

Chat Kills My Server
We have tested the chat extensively for server friendliness, and have found it to be very gentle on servers. We have seen the script run with hundreds of active users without putting hardly any load on the server. However, an improperly configured server may result in any reverse-AJAX/push-AJAX/Comet based chat script killing the server. If you find that your server slows down after installation, you may want to talk with your host about raising your MySQL and Apache Max Connection Limits to a more appropriate amount!

[slammz]

This isn't showing up on my page and I have configured everything for it.

[regd87]

Is there anyway instead of just having friends show up on the online list to make everyone that is online show up?

[pesclub]

Warning: require([path]/iwt/shared/includes/license_api.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/adminfunctions_plugin.php(931) : eval()'d code on line 1
Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/home/pesclube/domains/pesclub.eu/public_html/iwt/shared/includes/license_api.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php') in /home/pesclube/domains/pesclub.eu/public_html/includes/adminfunctions_plugin.php(931) : eval()'d code on line 1

Why

[DFish]

Love it, so do my members apparently.

Uninstalled reason it was the culprit generating frequent 500 errors. Not sure if this is because of my host, conflicting mods or this mod itself. But either way it was a nice chatbar!

[Ideal Web Tech]

Anybody having issues please report as much details as you can on our site so we can continue to weed out random server problems. Logs during error periods are extremely helpful.

We have been reviewing the code and testing it on many different configurations to work to weed out all errors we can, but we really need detailed log information to help us out, since all servers are not configured the same.

Please remember this is a very advanced system in terms of how it works and the code behind it, so changes and fixes have to be carefully evaluated before they can be pushed into the production version of the script.

Also this modification is designed more for dedicated servers, while having said that it can work on VPS, and small shared hosting sites, but its not guaranteed to run on them.

We are also working on IIS issues with the script since IIS stops sending reply data when the stream is open, as it see it as an active request and waits for it to be finished before handling the next request (page load). If anybody has things working on IIS please share with us the changes that you made to IIS to help us get things fixed faster.

Also for faster response and to help us track things better please report stuff over on our site so we can respond faster, as well as organize and prioritize the bugs and data given.

[Tyran1]

Please for 3.8.7 !!!!!!!!!

Please!!!!

[doubleclick]

I don't see it working you your site. Tim+ is there.

[Datenpapst]

After installing the chat is not showing up at the bottom even after setting all options even in my profile.

[ywwz]

great job, but simplified chinese not supported.

[pesclub]

Originally Posted by Datenpapst

After installing the chat is not showing up at the bottom even after setting all options even in my profile.

I have the same problem what is going on?