BB| Messenger 1.5

Please press install if you install this hack

Support Can Not Be Given For This Hack

BB|Messenger is a user to user messenger system for vb3 that runs off your user database.

This hack as been made for my own forums and has not been tested on any other forums, so its very likely that errors might be found on other system set up's.

To Install:

upload all the files in the same way that they are in side the zip.

once all files are upload load the page http://www.yourdomain.com/bbmessenger/
note that the address before bbmessenger/ will be the path to the folder on your site.

Follow the install page and your all done.

The only other thing that needs doing is the editing of the address's in the marquee.php file that you upload to your forums root.

Find:

PHP Code:

 echo "<tr>\n";
    echo "<td width=\"$marquee_width\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px inset #000000; background-color: #4C6CA4\" onMouseover=\"this.style.backgroundColor='#607DAE';\" onMouseOut=\"this.style.backgroundColor='#4C6CA4';\">\n";
    echo "<font size=1 face=\"Verdana, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica, Times\">\n";
    echo "<b><a href=\"http://community.ultimate-music.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=" . $latestthread['threadid'] . "\" target='_blank'>" . $latestthread['title'] . "</a></b><br>\n";
    echo "Started by: <a href=\"http://community.ultimate-music.net/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&username=" . $latestthread['postusername'] . "\" target='_blank'>" . $latestthread['postusername'] . "</a><br>\n";
    echo "Last Post by: <a href=\"http://community.ultimate-music.net/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&username=" . $latestthread['lastposter'] . "\" target='_blank'>" . $latestthread['lastposter'] . "</a><br>\n";
    echo $numreplies;
    echo "\n</font>\n";
    echo "</td>\n</tr>\n\n"; 


and edit it to meet your own needs.

User linking to the messenger

put a link anywhere you like on your forums linking to /bbmessenger/index.php

How To's

To edit the colours edit the css in the files in the style folder.

Support

Can not be given via my self due to work load please do not e-mail or pm asking for help in anyway because the reply will more and likely be no, this does not stop user's from helping each other with probs in this topic and if a fix or addon is made i will update the zip with it up on the asking of doing so.

Fix's

1) check your vBulletin cookies Prefix in vb's config file is set to bb like below:

// Prefix that all vBulletin cookies will have
// For example
$cookieprefix = 'bb';

if not set it to the above, if setting it to the above gives you errors with other hacks follow the steps on page 3 for editing messengers cookie call's.

this fix's the login error.

2) https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=164 Zip will get updated when next version is out.

[lAndyl]

Hey im a little lost where to i go to change the style of the messenger to match my forums.

[blitzkrg]

Originally Posted by blitzkrg

i got this to install and work fine.. but omg, every time i make a connection, my cpu usage goes through the roof.. like 50% for apache and 50% for mysql.. anyone else have this problem.. is there a fix?

anybody?????????

[starfantazy]

um not to sound like a complete fool, but where exactly do the files go?

[Sypher]

Originally Posted by starfantazy

um not to sound like a complete fool, but where exactly do the files go?

heh, don't worry

the bbmessenger folder and marquee.php both go directly into your forum directory
...so you should have yoursite.com/forum/marquee.php and yoursite.com/forum/bbmessenger/

[Sypher]

Originally Posted by lAndyl

Hey im a little lost where to i go to change the style of the messenger to match my forums.

look in the php files and change the color scheme... I dunno if the new skin has the ability to change colors... but I remember him saying that it's all css based... so changing the color is located in the php files.. forgot which one... try index.php of your bbmessenger folder

[C.Birch]

to edit the colours you need to edit the css in the .html.php files you find in the style folder.

the new look that i posted on one the pages can not be easyly edited because there jpg files but if a v2 is made that will sport that look from the start and the png files will come with it.

[C.Birch]

Originally Posted by Sypher

im in usergroup id 8... and while im at it.. i want to make sure usergroup id's 8,10, 2 and 3 work.

thanks for your help

being in usergroup 8 is your prob because thats down as a banned usergroup. to fix this you need to edit the bbm_config table in the database where you see banned usergroups.

[Sypher]

bah, sorry to be a burden... i looked at my database and i found this:

......
it isn't the solution because that is my current data

[Sypher]

nvm!

was in structure... clicked on browse and found the gui you have on that image... 8 is in banned usergroups... will change.. thanks a bunch!

[Sypher]

hey, sorry but another problem...

when in a chat window with another user the messages are not sent instantaneously... rather... the user must close the chat box and re-click on the member's hame to get the messages... it's weird, but hopefully you can understand it