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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[GoTTi]

issue:

when i click on Inbox and Sub buttons on the messenger, its taking me to http://site.com/private.php, it should be taking me to site.com/forums/private.php

how do we fix that?

[GoTTi]

actually all the links out of the messenger are not going to /forums/ directory. they just goto public_html only.

[citeman]

Getting the error: "The procedure point_wtof could not be located in dynamic link library msvcrt.dll" during installation.

Installing on Windows 2000 - I have IE 6.0.

[GoTTi]

application issue:

when im in contacts and i click on the radio button for "online only" its staying on that if i were to then click on my browser then go back to the messenger, the radio bubble goes back to everyone for online status, but it still is on "online only", then if i click again on IE it goes back to the list of everyone. its not staying on "online only" as my clicked option

[GoTTi]

wow this is ur first mod on here. thats cool for your first mod and you just possibly made the best mod on this entire site.

[Amman-DJ.CoM]

Originally Posted by Calash

How secure is this mod? Is it sending the login info plain text or is in encrypted? Is there any storage of the user info, ether on the client computer or on the server outside of the current VB databases?

Before I even think of offering something like this to my users I want to make sure I am not opening a major hole that could jeopardize there accounts.

this mod is secure , it send the password already encrypted (better than a browser anyway) , there is a storage of the user information ONLY if the user clicks "save my password" , no other storage on the database , it reads and verifies the user directly from the vb database .

[Amman-DJ.CoM]

Originally Posted by GoTTi

issue:

when i click on Inbox and Sub buttons on the messenger, its taking me to http://site.com/private.php, it should be taking me to site.com/forums/private.php

how do we fix that?

2 solutions
1 - creating a subdomain forums.site.com will solve the problem , but you should move the vbmsngr from public_html into /forum insode the public_html and the login will become @forum.site.com

2 - wait for the next version soon

[Amman-DJ.CoM]

Originally Posted by citeman

Getting the error: "The procedure point_wtof could not be located in dynamic link library msvcrt.dll" during installation.

Installing on Windows 2000 - I have IE 6.0.

this is a strange error , maybe caused from the installer which we did not code , anyway thanks for the feedback , we are trying to resolve this problem too .

[Amman-DJ.CoM]

Originally Posted by GoTTi

application issue:

when im in contacts and i click on the radio button for "online only" its staying on that if i were to then click on my browser then go back to the messenger, the radio bubble goes back to everyone for online status, but it still is on "online only", then if i click again on IE it goes back to the list of everyone. its not staying on "online only" as my clicked option

if there is no one online , the radio button will change to "everyone" automatically , we will check this problem anyway if there are any online contacts and the switching is still done , thank you for the feedback again :-D

[epsol]

I am having the same issue where the Send PM / view profile / inbox / subs and goto forum buttons goto the root domain instead of the subdir I have vb installed in. I don't know if this is a bug or not, but it would also be nice for it to parse BBCode in the last 10 posts....