Flashchat: Who is chatting

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This is a simple ForumHome display of who is currently using your Flashchat.

Version 2.20 is for use with Flashchat 4.1.x - however, it may work with older versions of Flashchat if set-up correctly.

The main features of Version 2.xx are ;

1. It displays the list on Forum Home with the "Users online" display.

2. The list view is collapsable, so you just see the number.

3. Users who should display as coloured or bold etc should be displayed correctly. (based on the display usergroup)

4. If you 'hover' over a username it will show the room they are chatting in.

5. If the chat is empty, a simple "no one is chatting" message is displayed.


Note: This will not display the names of any bots in the chat, due to the strange way that flashchat stores this information.


With help from Cyricx a CPMS module is located in this post. (Version 2.20 only, unsupported - use at your own risk).

[ncangler]

Thanks so much for this John. I made the changes below but still get "Weclome ncangler" and none of the changes show up. I'm using the Chat within a CMPS page. Would that make a difference? Thanks!

Originally Posted by wirewolf

ncangler and all,
Go to the chat/inc/langs/en.php file , near the end of the file, around line 222, look for:

PHP Code:

'room' => 'Room',
'welcome' => 'Welcome USER_LABEL',
'ringTheBell' => 'No Answer? Ring The Bell:',
'logOffBtn' => 'X', 


Edit to:

PHP Code:

'room' => 'Room',
'welcome' => 'Welcome USER_LABEL , Note: Please use "Exit the Chat Room" Button when you want to log out of Chat',
'ringTheBell' => 'No Answer? Ring The Bell:',
'logOffBtn' => 'Exit the Chat Room', 


, Or what ever wording you care to use, but you get the idea. This is only the english langauge file. Of course you would have to edit all the langauge files if you are using them.

[wirewolf]

Yeh, I get the same. I made the changes, and they show when you first load the flashchat page, but on the second load they don't. ???
Making this change in the config file does help though:

PHP Code:

//Logout behavior 
'logout' => array( 
'close'    => true, // if true, then FlashChat window is closed upon logout 


John

[Harry72]

Thx Paul. Excellent work. *klicked install* :nervous:

[Paul M]

This hack has been updated to version 2.00 - the main change is to display the user based on the their selected display usergroup (rather than always use the primary usergroup, as previous versions did). I have also added a simple message when the chat is empty.

[MortysTW]

I just got my forum to go public tonight so I'm scared to go experimenting on things I know very little about. But I got an idea.

If I wanted the "Who's Chatting" line to be displayed which I believe is this tag $chatters, at the top of all my pages on the site. Couldn't I put your code that you say to install in the index.php in my global.php page? And then no matter what page I put the $chatters, it will work?

Like I said, I just went public and scared to experiment at the moment until I do a good site back up.

But I installed your hack the way its meant to be installed in under 60 seconds and I thank you very much for your work. Great mod!

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by MortysTW

If I wanted the "Who's Chatting" line to be displayed which I believe is this tag $chatters, at the top of all my pages on the site. Couldn't I put your code that you say to install in the index.php in my global.php page? And then no matter what page I put the $chatters, it will work?

Yes, this would work - just bear in mind that the code would be called on every page that every person views.

[MortysTW]

That's basically what I want. WIth my old forum, I had up by my logo a "WHo's Online: " and a "Who's Chatting: " on each and every page. I found the moment I did that, more people became members and the chat room really started to get used alot more.

Thanks again for the hack and your help. I'll make sure to annoy you if I have problems with my global.php idea.

[MortysTW]

Okay, I said I'd be back to annoy you. I can't seem to get my idea to work. I slipped the info in the global.php instead of the index.php and that part works like a champ. Info still shows up properly at the bottom of the index.php page like your hack is suppose to.

But how do I get the $chatters to work under my logo at the top of all pages.
I tried slipping it in my header and its not working. Is it not working there because global.php isn't called immedietely maybe?

Or am I suppose to do something other than just type $chatters in the html of the page? I even copied the part that is suppose to be put into the template per your instructions but dumped that info in my header instead, and none of it worked there.

I'm at a loss. Any tips?

[Paul M]

Where in global.php have you put the code ?

[MortysTW]

You mean it matters? hahaa Told you I'm new. I got the ideas, just none of the know-how.

I put it at the very bottom of the page, just above the

/*================================================= =====================*\
|| ################################################## ##################
|| # Downloaded: 02:42, Wed Mar 30th 2005
|| # CVS: $RCSfile: global.php,v $ - $Revision: 1.256.2.5 $
|| ################################################## ##################
\*================================================ ======================*/
?>