Embedded chat

This "hack" will allow you to run a semi-integrated (free or paid) chat room "inside" your forum:

+ It's quite generic and should work with several chat providers (made a seperate template, just for the applet code)
+ The chat room will be displayed within your forum's structure,
+ The chat applet will be sized according to the user's screen resolution (could get scary at 1600x1200 )
+ People will be logged into the chat room using their forum usernames (if the chat supports auto-login)
+ Invalid characters in usernames will be replaced before logging in to the chat, plus too lengty names will be shortened
+ Easy installation

- At this time there's no feedback from the chat room to the forum. A "chat monitor" is planned though (version 2)

The install docs and template examples are mainly focussed on the chat provider we use (http://www.raidersoft.com), but it shouldn't be a problem adjusting one or two things to get this thing to work with your own chat provider.

The sizes of the chat applet haven't been tested out fully. I have no clue how bigger resolutions work out. All the rest seems to work fine.

Hope you like it...

[update 1.4]Sizes can now be set more easily, just by editing the chatredirect template, nothing else.
Added support for raidersoft's ICE, which is more flexible with usernames.

[indiamike]

Originally posted by FWC
If you have Verify Handle set to off in the chat room this happens automatically in chat.php. I'm not sure what the problem could be.

I am having this problem also. To get to the chat page you have to be registered, but when the chat loads you have the option of changing your handle and nickname. I have seen a few others that force the name in automatically, but mine doesn't .

I am using the paid version of Raidersoft chat and am embedding it into my vbportal page with vbulletin 2.2.5 which I don't think would make a difference.

In my Raidersoft account I have Verify Handle set to off, and disable/ nick command set to on.

I have followed the instructions to the letter and my chatbit template looks like this (parts are edited)

<param name="USERNAME" value="$username">

<applet code="Client.class" codebase="http://freechat.raidersoft.com" archive="scclient6_en.zip" width=500 height=350>
<param name="port" value="9001">
<param name="room" value="xxxxx">
<param name="canvaslength" value="1000">
<param name="lang" value="en">
<param name="layout" value="std">
<param name="lopt" value="s+t+a+c+h+d+l+">
<param name="urllist" value="true">
<param name="subroom" value="true">
</applet>

Can anyone help or give some tips.

Thanx
Mike

[wot-Mike]

Well, the username line should be within the applet code, not outside as you posted, so this should work:

PHP Code:

<applet code="Client.class" codebase="http://freechat.raidersoft.com" archive="scclient6_en.zip" width=$setwidth height=$setheight>
<param name="port" value="9001">
<param name="room" value="xxxxx">
<param name="canvaslength" value="1000">
<param name="lang" value="en">
<param name="layout" value="std"> 
<param name="lopt" value="s+t+a+c+h+d+l+">
<param name="urllist" value="true">
<param name="subroom" value="true">
<param name="USERNAME" value="$username">
</applet> 


Hope that helps

[indiamike]

DOH!!!!!

Thanks for the easy fix. Haven't used applets in about three years and just got "brain freezed" working with it.

COOL...Thanks for noticing my error and thanks again for this hack.

Mike

[Ghostsuit]

Any closer to a release on the who's in chat feature?

[Prince]

Originally posted by Ghostsuit
Any closer to a release on the who's in chat feature?

earlier in this thread he said he would not make that public.

[Yalko]

Thanks for a great hack .

Do you know how to embed the chat so it will be displayed as one of the regular forums and not a seperate chat room?

[Ghostsuit]

Originally posted by Prince


earlier in this thread he said he would not make that public.

You might have missed him saying this

"One idea:

wait on the version that actually has a Who's in chat
It's ready enough now, so very soon..."

or maybe I've missed a different post.

Anyway fingers crossed he will release it.

[Prince]

Is this a bug?

Sometimes when I go into the chat my forum logo shows as a red x, if I hit refresh it displays.

[kerpen]

Originally posted by ladyfyre

There are also two colors of graphics: blue and green. the green is the main one, as that is what i use for our forums, and the blue is in a subfolder, but you can easily copy them over the others.

Hope it helps

Since the file is too big (due to the graphics) to attach here....the file can be downloaded here

Blue graphics set not in the zip. Would appreciate it.

Thanks much.

[trilOByte]

Originally posted by Yalko
Thanks for a great hack .

Do you know how to embed the chat so it will be displayed as one of the regular forums and not a seperate chat room?

Create a new forum. Fot the title call it...

<a href="/forums/chat.php">chat room</a>

Thats it!

Or you can add a sessinhash I think, like:

<a href="/forums/chat.php?s=$session[sessionhash]">Chatroom</a>

I'm pretty sure you define forum permissions as per any other forum you might create.