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vBulletin 3.7.x Official Integration & Authentication Extension

Product Info
Name: AddonChat Official Integration Product
Product ID: ac80_37
Version: 3.7.0
Author: AddonInteractive (http://www.addoninteractive.com/)
Last Modified: 15 May. 2008
Compatibility: vBulletin 3.7.x

Overview
This extension allows you to fully integrate a AddonChat Free, Professional, Professional PLUS or Enterprise Java? Chat Room with your vBulletin 3.7 forum system. 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 3.7 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?
This script is a completely revamped edition of our previous integration script. Installation no longer requires any template or code modifications. Additionally, there are no PHP files to edit when setting up your chat room. We have added an "AddonChat" menu item in the vBulletin AdminCP that allows you to setup and configure your chat room with ease. Most users will simply need to enter their account number and password (as used at addonchat.com) and your chat room settings will be retrieved automatically, with your remote authentication system updated automatically as well. We have also improved character code support through better UTF-8 conversion allowing non-English speakers to use a vBulletin+AddonChat without issue. Issues relating to the Who's Chatting system causing problems have also been addresses; a scheduled task has been added to automatically optimize and repair AddonChat related tables daily in addition to improvements to the re-written Who's Chatting system.

Features

• Seamless integration between your vBulletin forum and AddonChat
• After installation, setup and configure your chat room from the AddonChat menu in your vBulletin Admin Control Panel
• Popup and Embedded Chat room link options
• Automatic (ten minute interval) User's Chatting count updates
• Real-Time Who's Chatting list
• Display the amount of users within your chat room on your main navbar shown throughout your entire forum
• 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/uninstallation 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

Installation
Installaion 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.

[dxflw]

how can i add the link on navbar like the default style on another style?

[queengoc]

I would like to add the who's chatting feature to the bottom of my forum homepage like I had it with flashchat. Here's what I used for flashchat Do you have an addon chat version?

Thanks!

[Maxman1544]

This looks great. I get an Error 1050 when I try to add this:

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.2:

Invalid SQL:

CREATE TABLE addonchat_settings
(
account_id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
login_md5pass VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',

Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Maxman1544]

Anyone else have a problem getting this installed on 3.7.2 PL1 ?

[Doug Nelson]

What do the 6 "Link Chat to Forum" options do?

[dxflw]

installed!
but if i enter chatroom i get this message:

Service Temporarily Unavailable.Please try again in a few minutes.

[Maxman1544]

I was going to upgrade to professional to get rid of ads once I got the free version working. I guess that is out, no response. So I will have to look for another alternative.

Any suggestions on a different chat room? I had used flashchat in the past. I liked this hosted option and was hoping to get it working.

[Grim77]

Sorry for not responding sooner. Apparently I missed one of the notifications and wasn't aware that recent posts have been made. Just an FYI for everyone -- please eMail us or call us for technical support and questions; it's the best and quickest way to get in touch with us.

Maxman1544 -- Technical support inquiries should be addressed to support@addonchat.com as stated in the product description. Please open up a ticket by eMailing us and provide as much information as possible. I suppose it's possible the issue is related to the 3.7.2PL1 release you're using, but that should not cause a MySQL error. It looks like the message you posted had the SQL cut off.

dxflw, Goomzee -- This almost always indicates that the chat room ID number and/or server is not set correctly. Please ensure you entered the SC- chat room ID number, and not your RC- customer ID number. If this doesn't help, please eMail us

queengoc -- I've submitted a request for an additional hook to be placed into the forum templates. With any luck we'll get it in a future release. Right now, to perform such a mod would require manual template edits; something we're trying to stay away from with this product as it makes upgrading your forum and/or changing templates/styles very difficult.

nitrohoss -- CSS popup windows currently display behind applets. There are some hacks to get around this, but they're limited to a few browsers and are very dirty. I hope to see the option to specify a z-index for applets in the future.

[almqdad]

Grim77

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=125

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=127

[Grim77]

Originally Posted by almqdad

Grim77
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=125
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=127

almqdad -- According to all other accounts, the latest released fixed all of these issues. When you upgraded, did you make sure to use the new authentication script?