BB| Messenger 1.5

Please press install if you install this hack

Support Can Not Be Given For This Hack

BB|Messenger is a user to user messenger system for vb3 that runs off your user database.

This hack as been made for my own forums and has not been tested on any other forums, so its very likely that errors might be found on other system set up's.

To Install:

upload all the files in the same way that they are in side the zip.

once all files are upload load the page http://www.yourdomain.com/bbmessenger/
note that the address before bbmessenger/ will be the path to the folder on your site.

Follow the install page and your all done.

The only other thing that needs doing is the editing of the address's in the marquee.php file that you upload to your forums root.

Find:

PHP Code:

 echo "<tr>\n";
    echo "<td width=\"$marquee_width\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px inset #000000; background-color: #4C6CA4\" onMouseover=\"this.style.backgroundColor='#607DAE';\" onMouseOut=\"this.style.backgroundColor='#4C6CA4';\">\n";
    echo "<font size=1 face=\"Verdana, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica, Times\">\n";
    echo "<b><a href=\"http://community.ultimate-music.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=" . $latestthread['threadid'] . "\" target='_blank'>" . $latestthread['title'] . "</a></b><br>\n";
    echo "Started by: <a href=\"http://community.ultimate-music.net/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&username=" . $latestthread['postusername'] . "\" target='_blank'>" . $latestthread['postusername'] . "</a><br>\n";
    echo "Last Post by: <a href=\"http://community.ultimate-music.net/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&username=" . $latestthread['lastposter'] . "\" target='_blank'>" . $latestthread['lastposter'] . "</a><br>\n";
    echo $numreplies;
    echo "\n</font>\n";
    echo "</td>\n</tr>\n\n"; 


and edit it to meet your own needs.

User linking to the messenger

put a link anywhere you like on your forums linking to /bbmessenger/index.php

How To's

To edit the colours edit the css in the files in the style folder.

Support

Can not be given via my self due to work load please do not e-mail or pm asking for help in anyway because the reply will more and likely be no, this does not stop user's from helping each other with probs in this topic and if a fix or addon is made i will update the zip with it up on the asking of doing so.

Fix's

1) check your vBulletin cookies Prefix in vb's config file is set to bb like below:

// Prefix that all vBulletin cookies will have
// For example
$cookieprefix = 'bb';

if not set it to the above, if setting it to the above gives you errors with other hacks follow the steps on page 3 for editing messengers cookie call's.

this fix's the login error.

2) https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=164 Zip will get updated when next version is out.

[Erwin]

Just want to be make it clear that this hack works. I've been beta-testing this on my site with my staff. Chat works, IMing works, it's all good.

I took out the code for the Marquee and the code, and redid the javascript so that I can use it as a link from the navbar. Made it use my own smilies. I plan to make the actual index.php redundant.

Thanks again for sharing. Still customizing the interface at the moment... will let you know how it goes when I release it to my almost 80,000 members...

[C.Birch]

Originally Posted by bitg

Thank you. Seems to have done the trick. However, I had the change index.php?func=m_frameset to bbmessenger/index.php?func=m_frameset

What is the location.href="../index.php"; for?

thats the return link for after you have logged it, you spot when you have logged in your forums will reload to the index page. this is because the code was taken from the messengers login page where you see once you have logged in the login page auto loads the forums index.

[PixelFx]

Sweet thanks for releasing an update for this, I've been dieing to use it again

[C.Birch]

this its just basicy the same of what was up before but with a few fixs added and new install and login screen's the bigger update is still being worked on that being v2 if plans for that go ahead.

[Erwin]

Yup, I've just made this live on my forums. The IM popups from the navbar. You don't have to use the index.php at all - all calls to index.php gets redirected to the homepage.

This is an awesome hack - working fine. Thanks!

[NuclioN]

Originally Posted by Erwin

I took out the code for the Marquee and the code, and redid the javascript so that I can use it as a link from the navbar. Made it use my own smilies. I plan to make the actual index.php redundant.

How did you do that Erwin?

[C.Birch]

Originally Posted by Erwin

Yup, I've just made this live on my forums. The IM popups from the navbar. You don't have to use the index.php at all - all calls to index.php gets redirected to the homepage.

This is an awesome hack - working fine. Thanks!

what are your forums?

[C.Birch]

btw im useing 1.5 to test the messenger interface ideas for v2 heres what i have so far on my forums open in both ie and firefox.

what you think?

[Cold Steel]

Originally Posted by Erwin

Yup, I've just made this live on my forums. The IM popups from the navbar. You don't have to use the index.php at all - all calls to index.php gets redirected to the homepage.

This is an awesome hack - working fine. Thanks!

[high]* Cold Steel installs.[/high]

Erwin, can you post how you did that?

Also, is there any way we can get it to use our style colors?

[C.Birch]

Originally Posted by Cold Steel

[high]* Cold Steel installs.[/high]

Erwin, can you post how you did that?

Also, is there any way we can get it to use our style colors?

you can edit the css to make it match your colours it dont pick them auto due to it being a addon.