Chat Modifications - Envolve Chat Integration Module

About the Envolve Chat Plugin
This module will connect your vBulletin forum to Envolve chat. Envolve is a chat toolbar similar to Facebook's chat bar that allows your users to have group and one-on-one chats with each other while browsing your forums.

This mod requires an API key from Envolve in order to function. Visit http://www.envolve.com to get one. A free version is available that provides a full feature set for up to 25 concurrent users. Higher numbers of chatters require a paid account.

This mod integrates your forum's account system with Envolve so that when users are logged into your vBulletin site it also logs them into the chat. In addition, it integrates your profile pictures / avatars and profile information. With the 2.0 release of the mod, other users can now view your profile information and get a link to your profile simply by placing their mouse over your name.

The Envolve chat system is a rich solution for community chat. Some of its features include group chat (both public and private), one-on-one chat, the ability to pop chats out into their own windows, moderation controls (boot / block / ban / timed ban), chat message translation, resizable chat windows, chat sharing, and drag-and-drop chat invitations. As a hosted solution, all chat traffic is handled by Envolve's servers and will not place any additional load on your server.

Installation:
Detailed installation instructions can be found here:
https://www.envolve.com/docs/vbulletin-chat-plugin.html. They are also provided in the Readme.txt file.
You can see and try out the chat at http://www.envolve.com.

This version of the mod will work for both vBulletin 4.x and vBulletin 3.8.x.

Screenshots:
Here the "People List" can be seen open in the lower right hand corner of the page. This shows all users who are currently viewing the forum. This site owner has chosen to only allow logged-in users to chat.


Here a public group chat has been opened, and the user has moused-over another user to see his profile information.


Here a user is creating a new group chat that will be shown to the other users on the site. He has also "popped-out" the "General" chat into its own window.

[EddyMaxx]

If a member goes to the home page via http://domain.com/index.php then it shows up on the forum home.

But if they go to http://domain.com it doesn't display anything.

It works on all other pages with no issues.

Any ideas? It happens with both standard theme and custom theme.

[Lee G]

Exactly the same problem. I wish I had been able to explain it like that

Im sure the cause is vbseo and the way it rewrites the home page
Which would mean there are a lot of others that could suffer the same problem

[EddyMaxx]

^^ I don't have VBSEO and its not working on the homepage either.

It looks like their code looks for a specific page to place the javacript in. Since we don't have our files in a "/forums" directory its not picking it up because we have it at the root and index.php is not displayed.

There has to be a way to do it.

[BirdOPrey5]

I don't see any reason it would work with index.php but not without... Also on my test forum it works fine either way.

[Lee G]

Mines the same, as soon as you put a file name in it works
And it works with all mods, radio and tv player, classifieds etc etc
Forum home without any extension, ie index.php and it wont show

[BirdOPrey5]

Although not a solution, a work-around would be to find an .htaccess command to forward anyone from / to /index.php.

[EddyMaxx]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Although not a solution, a work-around would be to find an .htaccess command to forward anyone from / to /index.php.

Yeah, I figured that would be a workaround to just create a re-write rule in the .htaccess file.

Going to look at it a little further.

On your test site do you have all the files at the root level or inside a "/forums" directory?

[BirdOPrey5]

everything is under a directory, but it's not /forums/.

[EddyMaxx]

Got ya. This is weird. lol

[EddyMaxx]

Well here is the work around. Just create a .htaccess file (if you don't have one already) and just add the following line.

PHP Code:

RedirectMatch ^/$ /index.php 


That will take care of it and it will show on the forum home page.