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!

[dog199200]

I have tested this on my forum, and so far i like it, but i have a small problem that I can't seem to figure out. How is the bar called?

The reason I ask is because I build an entire website around the forums internal user core (basically a custom CMS), and i don't just want the bar to show on the forum, but on all parts of the website. I haven't found any documentation on how to do this ad would like to know if its possible.

[strudinox]

Much better! Installed 1.2 and it's working fine on every page except for my CMS pages. Currently using 4.1.5 Suite.

[Smile :-)]

great mod!

In RTL languages, the nick of the sender is on the text.
the fix is simple:

.icbb_chat_tab .messagearea > div > span.sender {
/*	margin-left: -10px;*/
	margin-left: 10px;
	font-weight: bold;
}

by the way, the "You:" in the messages is hard-coded, please convert it to a phrase so we will be able to translate it.

Thanks!

[arrow816]

Question,
Im guessing this is coded in Java,

I wondered why it was not done with ajax or flash as I am sure the support and fixing to work with vb would have been much easier and safer

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by arrow816

Following should be in the lite version also [if not already in pro then pro too]

Message Delete [Ability to delete messages]
Archive [Ability too see and search old messages]
User Mute [Ability to mute but user can still see chat]
Smiliey Button [Cause no convo is decent with at a smiley dude]
BBcode support [Really should be a basic I would think]
Message Characters [Character Amount Setting]

Maybe have a little expansion button on the side that brings up an advanced chat window with like the basic vb text box to make it easier if you have a few things to right

Really i was thin

Everything on that list is already planned to be added, or is already in the pro version; however, at this point, we have no plans of adding BBcode or Smilies to the lite version.

Originally Posted by dog199200

I have tested this on my forum, and so far i like it, but i have a small problem that I can't seem to figure out. How is the bar called?

The reason I ask is because I build an entire website around the forums internal user core (basically a custom CMS), and i don't just want the bar to show on the forum, but on all parts of the website. I haven't found any documentation on how to do this ad would like to know if its possible.

Originally Posted by strudinox

Much better! Installed 1.2 and it's working fine on every page except for my CMS pages. Currently using 4.1.5 Suite.

We have been told that it doesn't work on the CMS, but we haven't actually been able to see any of the configurations that cause it to not work. If either one of you two would like to give us a link and an account to test with, we would gladly try to debug the issue.

Originally Posted by Smile :-)

great mod!

In RTL languages, the nick of the sender is on the text.
the fix is simple:

.icbb_chat_tab .messagearea > div > span.sender {
/*	margin-left: -10px;*/
	margin-left: 10px;
	font-weight: bold;
}

by the way, the "You:" in the messages is hard-coded, please convert it to a phrase so we will be able to translate it.

Thanks!

We are already aware of these issues, but thank you for taking the time to post a fix for user's who may need it.

Originally Posted by arrow816

Question,
Im guessing this is coded in Java,

I wondered why it was not done with ajax or flash as I am sure the support and fixing to work with vb would have been much easier and safer

The front-end is coded using JavaScript and Push AJAX, not Java.

[dog199200]

Originally Posted by Ideal Web Tech

We have been told that it doesn't work on the CMS, but we haven't actually been able to see any of the configurations that cause it to not work. If either one of you two would like to give us a link and an account to test with, we would gladly try to debug the issue.

My sites not exactly a CMS, its an actual website. I just used the direct database access to call information from the forum. That's why i was trying to figure out how it was being called. Anyways my sites url is http://www.divineshadowsonline.com/ and if you need an account just PM me and i'll give you the information you'd need.

[clubvr4]

Is there anyway to disable the noise on the "Chat room" tab? - its very annoying when multiple people are talking - its advantageous for private messages, but can we have an option to disable on the chat room?!

Thanks!

Loving it so far!

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by dog199200

My sites not exactly a CMS, its an actual website. I just used the direct database access to call information from the forum. That's why i was trying to figure out how it was being called. Anyways my sites url is http://www.divineshadowsonline.com/ and if you need an account just PM me and i'll give you the information you'd need.

Oh, okay, if you would like to show it on your main site also, then you will need to include the JavaScript and CSS files for the bar, and then place the html near the bottom of your footer. If you would like, we can do this for you for a small fee. If you would like us to do this for you, please contact us via PM.

Originally Posted by clubvr4

Is there anyway to disable the noise on the "Chat room" tab? - its very annoying when multiple people are talking - its advantageous for private messages, but can we have an option to disable on the chat room?!

Thanks!

Loving it so far!

That is a good idea, we will add it to the list of features to implement!

[clubvr4]

Hai! me again.

Would it be possible to add an option to have everyone on the friend list, rather than your friends? - we have a small(ish) forum and its a bit of a pain having to add everyone as friends to allow each other to chat.

Thanks!

[dog199200]

Originally Posted by clubvr4

Hai! me again.

Would it be possible to add an option to have everyone on the friend list, rather than your friends? - we have a small(ish) forum and its a bit of a pain having to add everyone as friends to allow each other to chat.

Thanks!

couldnt you just use the chatroom feature for that?

Originally Posted by Ideal Web Tech

Oh, okay, if you would like to show it on your main site also, then you will need to include the JavaScript and CSS files for the bar, and then place the html near the bottom of your footer. If you would like, we can do this for you for a small fee. If you would like us to do this for you, please contact us via PM.!

No it's fine, i can do it on my own. If you don't mind, where in the style does the javascript get stored? My problem is that i've had a hard time finding any of it within my template