Integration with vBulletin - Official AddonChat Product

vBulletin 4 Official Integration & Authentication Extension

Product Info
Name: AddonChat Official Integration Product
Product ID: addonchat
Version: 4.0.2, 4.2.0
Author: AddonInteractive (http://www.addoninteractive.com/)
Last Modified: 4 Aug. 2012
Compatibility: vBulletin 4.0.x+, 4.2.x+

Overview

This extension allows you to fully integrate a AddonChat Free, Professional, Professional PLUS or Enterprise Java? Chat Room with your vBulletin 4 forum or CMS. This script provides basic integration for AddonChat Free and Professional customers. Remote authentication (the ability to secure access to your chat room using your vBulletin username/passwords) is available for Pro+/Enterprise customers, as well as a Who's Chatting feature.

Requirements

• vBulletin 4 or higher
• AddonChat Free, Professional PLUS, or Enterprise, or AddonChat Professional with the Remote (HTTP) Authentication System. You may register for a AddonChat account at www.addonchat.com. A Professional PLUS or Enterprise account is recommended to take advantage of advanced features.
• (optional, but recommended) PHP with allow_url_fopen directive enabled in your php.ini file or the PHP CURL extension. This is required to download the Who's Chatting list from AddonChat servers.

What's new?

• Completely re-written for vBulletin 4
• New Integration Options for vBulletin Social Networking Features (Blog, Albums, etc..)
• Updated to support RAS (Remote Authentication System) v2.1 providing extremely fine grain control over user privileges.
• New 'User is Banned' option in usergroup manager to easily prevent users belonging to specified usergroups from entering your chat room.
• Who's Chatting list is now (optionally) displayed on main forum page in the What's Going On box.
• Embedded Width may now be specified in percentage values (defaults to 100%)
• Option to display Chat Room Link in main navigation tab, community menu, and/or quick links menu.
• New in v4.0.1: Updated Link Code
• New in v4.0.1: Support for AddonChat Mobile Edition (iPhone, iPod Touch, etc..)
• New in v4.0.1: SSL Support (Automatic Detection)
• New in v4.0.1: Easy AddonChat control panel access through vBulletin AdminCP
• New in v4.0.1: vBulletin CMS Widget (Optional)
• New in v4.0.1: Language Additions
• Changed in v4.2.0: Temporarily suspended pop-up feature. We advise customers to enable the Java 6+ Detach feature along with the pop-up after login options from their AddonChat control panel to emulate this behavior.
• Updated in 4.2.0: Support for new vBulletin 4.2.x navigation system

Features

• Seamless integration between your vBulletin Forum/CMS and AddonChat
• After installation, set up and configure your chat room from the AddonChat menu in your vBulletin Admin Control Panel
• Automatic (ten minute interval) User's Chatting updates
• Optionally display the amount of users within your chat room on your chat navigation tab shown throughout your entire forum/CMS.
• Remote authentication allows you to authenticate access into your chat room based on your vBulletin user database
• Automatic user login option
• Seamless integration with vBulletin Usergroup permissions (remote authentication)
• Remote functions system allows you to tie in vBulletin forum functions into the AddonChat user menu
• Uses the vBulletin XML product import architecture, making installation simple.
• No code or template modifications required
• Automated account lookup - just enter your account number and password, and your information will be automatically retrieved. (allow_url_fopen must be enabled in PHP)
• Multi-lingual (UTF-8) support
• Supports both the AddonChat Mobile Edition & SSL Modules through automatic client/page detection.

Installation

Installation takes less than five minutes. Download the supplied ZIP file, and extract it on your personal computer. Open the README.TXT file for full installation instructions. No PHP code modifications or template modifications are required. This script makes use of the vBulletin XML Product system for a fast and painless installation.

Support

Support is provided by AddonInteractive for this script provided you have a Professional, Professional PLUS or Enterprise AddonChat account. Read the included instructions for details. Please let us know if you have any problems installing this extension.

Which file do I download?

vBulletin 4.2.x+ users, download attached file: product-addonchat_4-2-0.zip
vBulletin 4.0.x, 4.1.x users, download attached file: product-addonchat_4-0-2.zip

[attroll]

I have this all installed and when I put the script in my Widget and then click to the widget to open chat my pop-up window comes up and then this message appears below. I cannot get into a chat room and be able to post a chat. Can someone help me.

Welcome.
You are presently not in a room, or the room you have attempted to join does not exist. Please join a room by double-clicking a room name in the user list.

[preemz10314]

uninstalled. doesnt work. poor instructions on configuration. poor work.

[beatyourtruck]

Are you guys having issues? I have been trying to access the online demo and it just sits there with something like "Success. Loggin in....." then it says "connection to server is lost".

http://www.addonchat.com/demo.html

Nevermind....I created a free account and have my members testing it out now.

[wilczek]

Hi Guys,

Excellent product, no tech experience at all but 2 hours and I am up and running.

I have one q though - If you go to my home page www.systemsfortraders.com you will see my forum is in between 2 side banners always - But the chat room is on a fresh page - without the banners - it is sized ok (i have managed that) so it will fit if I can get it in the right place - the between 2 side banners location instead of on a fresh page without any banners.

Any help greatly appreciated, please keep it simple if possible as I am not very techie

And ... $125 is not a lot for this considering functionality, support, ease of installation and use - assuming I can get the above issue sorted

Thanks,

[beatyourtruck]

Installed with pro account and this mod. works great. No problems at all setting it up!

[beatyourtruck]

Anyone know how to put the Who's Chatting into a Forum Block? I saw the CMS Widget info but am more interested in a forum block (everyone hangs at the forum on my site...CMS is not even turned on yet).

This would also let me ditch the current Who's Chatting in the WGO box as it is formatted terribly and looks out of place.

[Trady]

Is the Widget constrained to the Pro + edition ?

T.

[Flipfloptrader]

Hi,

Recently purchased pro plus. Is it possible to chat in 2 rooms at once? At the moment I get transferred from 1 room to the other.

[OlijO]

tested on a vB4.1.0PL2 and work perfectly.
Pro+ Edition used.
Thank you

[worried]

For several upgrades your plugin isn't lining up with the rest of the What's Going On section. It's to the left of everything else and the text is wrapping. Can you upgrade your plug-in now vB has moved to 4.1?