Integration with vBulletin - Official AddonChat Product

vBulletin 4 Official Integration & Authentication Extension

Product Info
Name: AddonChat Official Integration Product
Product ID: addonchat
Version: 4.0.2, 4.2.0
Author: AddonInteractive (http://www.addoninteractive.com/)
Last Modified: 4 Aug. 2012
Compatibility: vBulletin 4.0.x+, 4.2.x+

Overview

This extension allows you to fully integrate a AddonChat Free, Professional, Professional PLUS or Enterprise Java? Chat Room with your vBulletin 4 forum or CMS. 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 4 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?

• Completely re-written for vBulletin 4
• New Integration Options for vBulletin Social Networking Features (Blog, Albums, etc..)
• Updated to support RAS (Remote Authentication System) v2.1 providing extremely fine grain control over user privileges.
• New 'User is Banned' option in usergroup manager to easily prevent users belonging to specified usergroups from entering your chat room.
• Who's Chatting list is now (optionally) displayed on main forum page in the What's Going On box.
• Embedded Width may now be specified in percentage values (defaults to 100%)
• Option to display Chat Room Link in main navigation tab, community menu, and/or quick links menu.
• New in v4.0.1: Updated Link Code
• New in v4.0.1: Support for AddonChat Mobile Edition (iPhone, iPod Touch, etc..)
• New in v4.0.1: SSL Support (Automatic Detection)
• New in v4.0.1: Easy AddonChat control panel access through vBulletin AdminCP
• New in v4.0.1: vBulletin CMS Widget (Optional)
• New in v4.0.1: Language Additions
• Changed in v4.2.0: Temporarily suspended pop-up feature. We advise customers to enable the Java 6+ Detach feature along with the pop-up after login options from their AddonChat control panel to emulate this behavior.
• Updated in 4.2.0: Support for new vBulletin 4.2.x navigation system

Features

• Seamless integration between your vBulletin Forum/CMS and AddonChat
• After installation, set up and configure your chat room from the AddonChat menu in your vBulletin Admin Control Panel
• Automatic (ten minute interval) User's Chatting updates
• Optionally display the amount of users within your chat room on your chat navigation tab shown throughout your entire forum/CMS.
• 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 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
• Supports both the AddonChat Mobile Edition & SSL Modules through automatic client/page detection.

Installation

Installation 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.

Which file do I download?

vBulletin 4.2.x+ users, download attached file: product-addonchat_4-2-0.zip
vBulletin 4.0.x, 4.1.x users, download attached file: product-addonchat_4-0-2.zip

[fayax]

Too costly. One time charge would've been nice but perpetual yearly fee for anything but the free version is too pricey.

The Free version has very little administrative controls.

[Cort]

I agree - why a yearly charge for a chat room? I would be happy to pay a one time extra charge for a really good chat room with a small upgrade fee - but shoveling out $125 a year for a good chat room is a bit much. Do that and over two years you've just paid for a VBulletin Forum and a CMS system.

[worried]

What do the integration options for blog and chat do?

[aberg]

Originally Posted by fayax

Too costly. One time charge would've been nice but perpetual yearly fee for anything but the free version is too pricey.

The Free version has very little administrative controls.

Don't forget that this chatroom isn't on your server.
I have use before the flashchat but it is installed on the server and use a lot traffic.
If you have a VPS account than a lot of hosters don't accept a chatroom for the heavy load on the server.
I'am use the proffesional edition and it works greet.
It's like if it is installed on you own server.
If I compare it with all the futures I find it cheap

[Grim77]

@worried: When enabled, these features provide links within the chat room to a user's blog by right-clicking on that user's name in the user list. There are other right-click commands that can be enabled as well.

[OmekaTeam]

If I click on "Account Settings" I see this error, why? Thanks

[SwollenCranium]

Originally Posted by fayax

Too costly.

Originally Posted by Cort

I agree - why a yearly charge for a chat room.... Do that and over two years you've just paid for a VBulletin Forum and a CMS system.

Still ... the product integration provided HERE in this mod is top notch.

I dig it, it looks great, it works great.

Also, I don't know about you guys but if my users like a certain thing they usually donate to offset my costs.



* Installed.

** Nominated.

[Cort]

I'm going to give it a try. I just wanted to piss about the cost first.

[cagbaazee]

Yeah working prefect without any problem. How should i install who's chatting.

[Grim77]

@OmekaTeam: This is most likely caused because you have not uploaded all of the files properly. Please ensure that all of the files in the upload/ folder (within the ZIP file) are uploaded correctly to your main forum folder.

@cagbaazee: Regarding Who's Chatting, it should automatically be installed and can be enabled/disabled from the AddonChat settings page in the VB ACP. You may need to have a Pro account (haven't tested it with the free edition - a Pro+ account with RAS enabled provides a bit faster updates) or higher; but more importantly, make sure someone is logged in to the chat room before testing it. I don't believe the box appears on the main forum page unless a user is logged in. You may also notice (depending upon your configured settings) that a bracket indicating how many users are currently in the chat room appears next to chat room links within the forum/CMS.