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!

[sodasusu]

no smile include

[woffie]

Originally Posted by blind-eddie

I was wondering if anyone even read my post...

My members love comet chat. You can surf on the forum and chat at the same time. Also the IM works great.

[Winter Sonata]

Hi

THis is great but killed my server so It's my problem, Can you guide me how to uninstall it?

I always get an error when trying :

Warning: require([path]/iwt/shared/includes/license_api.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/admincp/plugin.php(1559) : eval()'d code on line 1

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/l....../public_html/vb/iwt/shared/includes/license_api.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/l......../public_html/vb/admincp/plugin.php(1559) : eval()'d code on line 1

And btw, I have no folder called 'iwt' inside the vb folder

[Lucas Zgoda]

Hi, having problems with my language, the sepecial characters like " ~ ^ ´` ç " it won't show. any solution for that??

[Forbiddenz]

Having problems with my Exaltic skin, does great on showthread.php / forumdisplay.php or other page. But it ruined out when on forum.php . Idk why.

[hatetank]

Why are there no links anywhere to the - [IWT] Shared Libraries?

If I try and load the XML file under includes/xml as a new product it states invalid file specified.

What did I miss in this 4 line install doc?

[udomueller]

Its not working on my 4.2.0 installation. No css is included and if i manually add the css to headinclude the bottom_bar is not showing up.

What is to be done to use it on 4.2.0?

The user group is allowed to use the chat and the user has the group as a secodary group.

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by blind-eddie

I was wondering if anyone even read my post...

I did as well ...

Thank you for the heads up and I'm looking into it for our 4.1.3pl5 vBulletin site...

Have you tried the video conferencing mode?

Regards,
Doug

[blind-eddie]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

I did as well ...

Thank you for the heads up and I'm looking into it for our 4.1.3pl5 vBulletin site...

Have you tried the video conferencing mode?

Regards,
Doug

Sorry, I have not tried it yet. Its used just for chatting. I would be afraid to over load server with video conferencing.

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by blind-eddie

Sorry, I have not tried it yet. Its used just for chatting. I would be afraid to over load server with video conferencing.

The video conferencing is peer-to-peer, so there is no server loading from the vBulletin server ...

I think I'll give it a try and let you know how it goes...

Thanks again ...

Regards,
Doug