Chat Modifications - VB Messenger Desktop Application for vBulletin forums

vBulletin Messenger v1.4.0

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What It Does:

With VBM your members can login to the messenger with thier membership details , add other members to thier contact list (for VB 3.7 contacts are the friends in the friend list) , communicate with each other with smilies , fonts , colors ... , also they will be notified about newest forum posts and threads and view "last 10 posts" in the forum in an easy and fast way with a "Read More" button that will open the thread/post when clicked .
VBM has a public chat room , that can be accessed by all members that use the messenger .
Your members will know about the newest posts in the forum and will open the new post in a new browser window once they click the notification , which means a more active forum members and a better moderation .

Features:

- VBM is easy to install and manage .
- VBM Means less resources required from your website server (MySQL Queries > CPU , Bandwidth) .
- VBM Means a more living forum , and a better moderation .

- It is easy to install and manage your VBulletin Messenger system .
- Fully Supported
- VBM takes less queries from DATABASE and takes less resources/bandwidth because it dosen't have to load the pictures/CSS/backgrounds or any other files from your server , it only loads a small list of online/offline contacts with information about last 10 posts and threads in the forum , which takes about 10-15 queries and max of 5kb-15kb transfere which is less a 1000-10000 times from only opening the forum home page .

Installation:

1 - Download the Server Side Script and Open the file "include.php" and edit the database details to match these of your forum config.php entries

2 - Upload all the PHP files in the "vbmsngr" directory in the root directory of your website "/public_html/" (You may need to create the "/public_html/vbmsngr" folder) .

3 - Tell your members and/or moderators about The Messenger Installation Pack which is the messenger desktop software
Every one who installs this software and have a membership in your forum can chat to each other .

To login to the messenger use your user name then the "@" sign then your forum URL . example : me@myforum.com , enter your password and you're in !!!
You can make a subdomain and add the Server Side Script in it , but then no one can login to the messenger unless they know the subdomain address .

Notes:
- Messenger accepts only usernames and passwords in english chars! ( other languages support coming soon! )
- There will not be any options of editing the [Sitename] Messenger / theme / skin / removing the @domain.com login method unless in custom versions , please refer to the website .

Download Messenger Installation File Here ( it was big for attachment )

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[Amman-DJ.CoM]

Originally Posted by swissknife

THANK YOU very much!!!!

Your Welcome :-)

[veenuisthebest]

I think, it has a compatibility issue with Yahoo Messenger. Since I have installed VBM, I am facing an iertutil.dll error saying "Could not locate component" on opening yahoo messenger.

[Amman-DJ.CoM]

Originally Posted by veenuisthebest

I think, it has a compatibility issue with Yahoo Messenger. Since I have installed VBM, I am facing an iertutil.dll error saying "Could not locate component" on opening yahoo messenger.

VBM is a dependant software , and it no-way connected to yahoo messenger or any other software .

[Forum Lover]

I am getting this error.

Where to get that .dll and where to put?

[xuanhuy238]

i run vbb in dir /yega but messnger don't run /yega it run root :|

[veenuisthebest]

Originally Posted by Forum Lover

I am getting this error.

Where to get that .dll and where to put?

see.. same error i was talking about.

[s810car]

Originally Posted by Amman-DJ.CoM

unfortunatly there are no way we can give the EXE source code to change the title of the application or the skin/theme/design , but we make paid modifications to the exe , like removing the copywrite and site link from the bottom of the application , change the theme/skin , put the site/forum name to the title of the application , and remove the @domain.url to link directly to your forum (and link to other forums with the @ sign) .

And capitalization of MySQL queries does not affect if you use a new MySQL service running on the server with apachi and php4 or higher

I would like to find out what that costs for these options are, and I'll definitely think about it

That's what I thought about the queries as well, but for some reason, it wouldn't create the tables in my database until I did that, and I'm on Apache 2.2.8 with MySQL 5 so I don't know why that fixed it, maybe just a quirk

[burlesque]

Works for me except there are a couple of issues:

1. No avatar is showing up next to my username, there is just a white box.
2. In the 'My Status' dropdown, <Cutom Message> should actually say <Custom Message> (is CuStom, not Cutom.

Also, a quick suggestion which would make things look a bit tidier...

In the 'Forum' section where it lists the last 10 posts, the current format looks a bit untidy. Instead of showing the format like this:

[THREAD TITLE] by [USERNAME]: Thread text is here etc...

It might look much nicer in the following format:

Thread Title
by Username (Post Time)

The text of the thread is not needed here as it is repeated underneath anyway and this is much more readable.

Also, I think that it needs to differentiate between when people start a new thread and when they reply to a thread. At the moment, it simply says:

"Username has started a thread..." regardless of whether it is a new thread or a reply to an existing thread.

Anyway, this app is damned good so far and is definitely something I will be able to utilise once things are a bit further down the line.

Like others, I would like to see an option where I could upload a logo (even if it has to conform to specific dimensions) and I would also like to be able to change the name from 'VBulletin Messenger' to [SITENAME] Messenger.

Anyway, all in all, this is a brilliant mod and shows a hell of a lot of potential!

[M-Tuning]

Originally Posted by s810car

I would like to find out what that costs for these options are, and I'll definitely think about it

Would like to know it too!
If the price is considerable I think i will do it.

[charlee]

Originally Posted by xuanhuy238

i run vbb in dir /yega but messnger don't run /yega it run root :|

Same here. My forums are installed in mysite.com/forum, not in the root folder...
The messenger can login, but it cannot load any info from the forums. When I click "Read More" or "Go to Forum", it takes me to the root. Is there a way we can get this to work? It would be really cool to have this on our forums.