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!

[danswano]

Yeah sure, but if i scroll up it must go up like in demo or in other words it must be always shown at the bottom of the browser, in my case it's stuck at the bottom and when i scroll up it's not there and i have to scroll to the bottom of the forum to be able to see it.

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by danswano

Yeah sure, but if i scroll up it must go up like in demo or in other words it must be always shown at the bottom of the browser, in my case it's stuck at the bottom and when i scroll up it's not there and i have to scroll to the bottom of the forum to be able to see it.

What browser is this in?

[danswano]

Firefox 5

[HMBeaty]

Originally Posted by danswano

Firefox 5

Works just fine for me on FF5....

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by danswano

Firefox 5

Most likely it has todo with an issue in your style (corrupt xhtml most likely).

[danswano]

I've disabled all hacks one by one then re enabled them and it worked fine.

Suggestions please:
1. can you integrate the settings into the friends list it self like facebook?
2. can you make the bar height less than this one like facebook?
3. Can you make an option to have a full bar at the bottom or just a little box.

Thanks

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by danswano

I've disabled all hacks one by one then re enabled them and it worked fine.

Suggestions please:
1. can you integrate the settings into the friends list it self like facebook?
2. can you make the bar height less than this one like facebook?
3. Can you make an option to have a full bar at the bottom or just a little box.

Thanks

Glad you got it fixed. As for those suggestions we will consider them for future versions.

[Ideal Web Tech]

Just a friendly reminder to everybody, if you are caught removing the powered by without paying for branding removal you will be contacted and actions will be taken. We have already caught 3 sites that have removed it without permission. Remember this script took a lot of work so give credit where credit is due, especially if you want us to keep updating the free version.

BTW if you want to remove it we have a branding free option so you can do it legally just contact us.

[HMBeaty]

Originally Posted by Ideal Web Tech

We have already caught 3 sites that have removed it without permission.

Might want to get used to that as there are other sites that will take the modification from here and re-release on those other sites as well. Apparently nobody cares about hard work anymore.

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by HMBeaty

Might want to get used to that as there are other sites that will take the modification from here and re-release on those other sites as well. Apparently nobody cares about hard work anymore.

Thats why we are dealing with every site that we find doing that, and every site we find redistrobuting the files. As we legally own the rights and can prove they are breaking the terms of use for the modification/license agreement. So everybody who plans to try and pull one over just know you will be hearing from us as soon as we notice. We worked entirely to hard to just let those things slide.