Chat Invitation

OK. This one was by request. It is most definitely in Beta.

This Hack puts a link on the Who's Online page that if clicked, invites the user to chat in your forum chat room.

1. You will have to do some customization to make this work for your chat system.
2. This is a manual install. Don't go anywhere near it if you don't know how to run queries, update files, create templates, etc.
3. I will support bugs and possibly add new features. However, I will not teach hacking basics in this thread.

Know Issues:
a) Resolved.
b) Currently, the only invitation link is on the Who's Online page. I will probably add it to the user profile later.
c) You are probably going to want to create an invitation icon to use instead of the text link I have. Feel free to share with the rest of us

Features:
a) User Control Panel interface allows members to turn off chat requests.
b) Shows who invited you to chat.


ScreenShots to Follow in subsequent posts.

[amykhar]

User Control Panel Interface:

[amykhar]

Who's Online Link:

[amykhar]

The popup:

Note: The popup behaves exactly like the pm popup. If you click ok the first time to accept the invitation, a second box pops up. The OK button takes you to chat in a new window. The Cancel opens up chat in the current window.

[amykhar]

If you downloaded the attachment before I made this post, I just made the following addiction to the install instructions:

d) headinclude:

Find:
$headnewpm

Add After:
$headchatInvite

The zip file has already been corrected.

[amykhar]

I just fixed it so that it shows who invited you. If you already installed, you only need to upload the new php file and replace the head_chatInvite template contents with the contents of the updated text file.

You will also need to run this query:
ALTER TABLE `user` ADD `inviter` VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL;

Amy

[NuclioN]

Great amykhar We use Jpilot chat and ik can't figure out where to put the link in head_chatInvite template.

[amykhar]

See where I have the link to chat.html? It's in two places in that template. That's where it would go.

Amy

[amykhar]

BTW, My chat room went from DEAD to jumping just because of this hack.

Amy

[NuclioN]

Hm..i only see this: $bburl/inviteChat.php?action=accept but no chat.html or i overlooked it.

[amykhar]

OOPS. You are correct. The url is in the inviteChat.php file. Gotta love beta documentation. Zip File has been updated.

Amy

[NuclioN]

It works! As you mentioned this needs urgent adjustments to do this in the chat itself or in reach of you when chatting.

The top in the table is missing on the right...

[amykhar]

You found another documentation bug.

In the whosonline template

Find:

$online_pm

Add After:

<td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}"><smallfont color="{tableheadtextcolor}"><b>Chat</b></smallfont></td>

I have updated the zip.

[NuclioN]

I wonder...it is possible to generate a who's online in other pages so maybe the same method could be used to display all the members online above the chat togheter with the chatlink?

[amykhar]

Nucliion, I've got it working on my site. I used 2 other hacks to get things working. I used Tubedog's Who's online on an external page.

I also used this hack: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ight=whos+chat

I am not putting the files into the install or release because they are other people's work. However, I will tell you what I did.

In Tubedog's hack, I made the names into links to the inviteChat.php script. (The same links as on the who's online page)

I then modified the top frame of the other hack to include Tubedog's file and to display at the top of the screen.

That works beautifully. It refreshes the who's online at the top of the chat page every 5 minutes.

Amy