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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[PokerVillain]

Does this mod have Linux ability? I'm using a computer with a Kubuntu Operating System which is a Linux OS. Would I be able to use this messenger on my computer? If not will there ever be any modifications to this mod done to allow it to be used on Linux?

[GoTTi]

banned users are able to use this. gunna have to implement some usergroup permissions on this. maybe making this a full plugin for the forum?

[GoTTi]

is there a way we can also make this show in the users postbit area and profile area that they are online on the messenger service?

[GoTTi]

also, need to figure out a way to either not show new post alerts, or a way to block forums ID's from the new post alert. if you have a RSS feed for news, it shows all the new threads the bot is posting.

[GoTTi]

pictures arent loading on the messenger also. is it suppose to show the avatar? 99% of users, well on my boards, use custom av's, .gif files. how can we make this pull the right code for the avatar?

[Hornstar]

This has potential at being a great mod. I will keep an eye on this one for sure! I too am interested in it being more customizable, will wait for future versions to see what happens. thanks.

[GoTTi]

never mind on post 125. i see that the image doesnt load if the avatar is on the server as a file, not in the db. need to figure out how to pull DB or direct file from avatar folder specified.

[GoTTi]

To get your avatar to be the actualy size of the avatar and look right in the messenger, open up picture.php in the package here and remove:

style="width:80px;height:80px;"

so it looks like

<?php
include "include.php";
echo '<img src="http://'.$FORUM_URL.'/image.php?u='.$_REQUEST["uid"].'">';
?>

this will make the avatar load as actual size. if the avatar is huge tho, i would assume its gunna make the messenger look wierd. i havent tried a large size image, but ya.

[Saint_I_Am]

still says

Loading Contacts, Please Wait....

I can now see my avatar but my post count is out by about 900 (lower)

I tried the final server side and version 1.4 files

[GoTTi]

the "remember username and password" isnt working right. wont remember my details.