vbHyperChat

[ThePimp]

Ok, I've been milling over this for a while now and would love to see this happen.

Basically, it would be a chatroom integrated into vb, with user db hooks for logged in users, and also the ability to use the vb smilies. The chat "Room" titles become thread titles, and the chat messages in the room become posts in a specified forum.

The chatroom would have some user commands as well as admin commands, I will list the ones that come to mind below:

USER COMMANDS:
/makeroom $TITLE (creates a room in the chat system and redirects the creator to the room. This command will CREATE a thread in a specified forum from the AdminCP using $TITLE as the thread title)

/closeroom (Closes the current room. Must be initiated by the user who created it. This will close the thread in the forum)

/roomlist (This will create a link to a popup window with the last XXX created rooms with links to each one)

ADMIN COMMANDS:
/boot $USERNAME (boots a user from the chat until /unboot $USERNAME is used)
/unboot $USERNAME (unboots a user from the chat)
/prune $USERNAME (deletes all messages by $USERNAME in their current room)
(Maybe other admin features, these were just the first that came to mind)

I think this could be a rework of the vbShout extension somehow, but one of the key features that would make it rock is that it takes a room title and creates a thread. Also, it would be quite nifty where if someone on the forum posts a message in response to one of the chat threads... it shows up in the chatroom as well as posts on the forum. Enabling this chat to increase post counts would also be essential, so the users got credit for chatting.

Anyhow, this is a thought in progress... I've tried to cover the logic as best I can here. If someone wants to pick this up and run with it... I'm sure alot of others would have a use for it.

EDIT: Private rooms might be an idea also, which would end up being threads that only admins / mods can see.

Thanks for reading!