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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[Amman-DJ.CoM]

Originally Posted by 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....

for the folder problem ... as i said 4 times before
there are 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

and the bbcode in the next version won't be parsed , it will be erased to show plain text , as the list control does not accept any styles .

thank you .

[peppercola]

this mod doesnt work with a mac

[Amman-DJ.CoM]

Originally Posted by peppercola

this mod doesnt work with a mac

Install MS Windows under a Virtual machine .

[harlita]

link for install files leads to 404. did you move the pack2.zip file?

[nerofix]

Login via E-Mail would be nice, don't you think?

And the thing with the non-latin passwords must be fixed somehow, I got a lot kyrillic and arabic passwords in our forum

[Amman-DJ.CoM]

Originally Posted by harlita

link for install files leads to 404. did you move the pack2.zip file?

no , just uploading a new one with the folders thing fixed , will be available in moments .

[Amman-DJ.CoM]

Originally Posted by nerofix

Login via E-Mail would be nice, don't you think?

And the thing with the non-latin passwords must be fixed somehow, I got a lot kyrillic and arabic passwords in our forum

yes , but how will you login to your site ? myemail@gmail.com@mysite.com ???

and we are trying to solve the non-latin charachters problem , it seems some problems with encodng while encrypting .

[Webnower]

This looks pretty cool! Nice work Too bad it can't be customized without special arrangements... Is there no way to pull values from the site's CSS to style this? Would make this mod a lot more attractive.

I'll keep an eye on this.

[peppercola]

Originally Posted by Amman-DJ.CoM

Install MS Windows under a Virtual machine .

last time I did that it crashed my machine so no thanks

[epsol]

this is just a minor thing, but do you realize in the title bar it says version 1.3, but when you hover over the icon in the systray it says 1.2?