Flashchat: Who is chatting

This modification is no longer available or supported.

This is a simple ForumHome display of who is currently using your Flashchat.

Version 2.20 is for use with Flashchat 4.1.x - however, it may work with older versions of Flashchat if set-up correctly.

The main features of Version 2.xx are ;

1. It displays the list on Forum Home with the "Users online" display.

2. The list view is collapsable, so you just see the number.

3. Users who should display as coloured or bold etc should be displayed correctly. (based on the display usergroup)

4. If you 'hover' over a username it will show the room they are chatting in.

5. If the chat is empty, a simple "no one is chatting" message is displayed.


Note: This will not display the names of any bots in the chat, due to the strange way that flashchat stores this information.


With help from Cyricx a CPMS module is located in this post. (Version 2.20 only, unsupported - use at your own risk).

[Paul M]

BTW, not related, but just reading your forum I noticed you had changed the refresh time from 3 secs to 0.1 secs - this is a very bad idea - 2 seconds is about the minimum you should consider. Basically you are telling every user to poll the server every 0.1 seconds - using large amounts of bandwidth and eventully if quite a few join, collapsing the whole thing. (Imagine trying to refresh a normal page 10 times a second !!).

[Acers]

thanks for telling that.
Actually i did that as a test to see if it fixes lag. Right now all were complaining of some 7 to 30 secs lag. I tried to test the chat with high refresh to see if it did anything. It hasn't. Ar best its now variable with some users getting it way too high and some low.
Anyway i will make it back to 2secs.

the problem is caused only on
1. Index.php edited, Forumhome not changed.
(or even if i change forumhome, and don't edit the index.php its allright. Its only on index.php file edit that it occurs.)
btw i just sent you some details via pm(index file and test user details.)

[Sleazy]

I am trying to use this code in collaboration with AdColumns so that it has a Whos in chat display on a side column. I put this code in a template being called by AdColumns but it doesn't appear to work this way. The template is being called on ForumHome, is there anything you can think of that would fix this problem so the code can function as part of a template that is being called?

[Paul M]

I don't know much about adcolumns - and am not really sure what you are saying doesn't work. Can you be more specific, or link to your site.

[Paul M]

Sleazy - thanks for the PM - I have replied with what should be the answer for you.

[T3MEDIA]

hey paul should I bother with flash chat?

[dsboyce8624]

Originally Posted by T3MEDIA

hey paul should I bother with flash chat?

AFAICT FlashChat is the best out there right now.

I have it, and this hack installed. Both running smoothly.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by T3MEDIA

hey paul should I bother with flash chat?

Well that depends - do you want a chat system ?

If so then yes, FC does the job (as do others I might add, but I, and many others chose this one).

[Romeos Tune]

Hey Paul,

I'm running VB3.03 and the latest FlashChat.... For some reason I'm getting this error. It's adding an extra vb3_ it seems when doing the queries.... I'm still too new to figure this out I guess..... Any help would be appreciated.....

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.3:

Invalid SQL: SELECT connections.userid, connections.roomid, rooms.name, rooms.ispublic, connections.start,
user.usergroupid, user.displaygroupid, user.options, user.username, groupa.opentag as opentaga, groupa.closetag as closetaga,
groupb.opentag as opentagb, groupb.closetag as closetagb
FROM vb3_vb3__fc_connections as connections
LEFT JOIN vb3_vb3__fc_rooms as rooms ON(connections.roomid = rooms.id)
LEFT JOIN vb3_user as user ON(connections.userid = user.userid)
LEFT JOIN vb3_usergroup as groupa ON(user.usergroupid = groupa.usergroupid)
LEFT JOIN vb3_usergroup as groupb ON(user.displaygroupid = groupb.usergroupid)
WHERE connections.userid IS NOT NULL ORDER BY start
mysql error: Table 'vb.vb3_vb3__fc_connections' doesn't exist

mysql error number: 1146

[esology]

Romeos Tune,
I am getting the exact same error. Still trying to figure out what it is.