Chat Modifications - Ideal Chat Lite (facebook style bottom chat/chatroom bar) v1.3.0

This modification adds a bottom bar chat system to your board.

Features

• Friend?s Online List (mutal or all friends)
• Integration with vBulletin's ignore system so users can block messages from people they want
• General Chat Room
• User-to-User Chat
  • Chat with friends
• Support for infinite number of open chats
• Automatic Updating of chat messages
• New message indicators
  • Indicator on Chat Tab for new messages
  • A sound plays for new messages
  • Page title flashes for new messages
  • Indicator for new messages on tabs out of view
• Multiple window support
  • Supports users having your site open in multiple windows/tabs
  • Changes in one window automatically apply to other windows
• Automatically disables chat bar for mobile browsers
  • Help save bandwidth for your mobile users

Settings

• Admin Settings
  • Chat online
  • Ban individual users from chat
  • Update stream time limit
  • Update stream delay
  • Settings & Chat Room link Positions
    • Change where the links show at, or hide them all-together
• Usergroup Settings
  • Can use chat
  • Can use chat room
• User Settings
  • Hide Chat bar
  • New message notification method

Change Log
For a full list of changes, please visit: http://community.idealwebtech.com/in...ngelog&file=15

Installation/Upgrade
See included readme file.

Demo
You can see a demo here (You can can register a new account, or use the Login, "Ideal Chat Demo", and password, "chatdemo") This demo is of the pro version which can be found here!

Support
This modification is released for free, and as such we don't officially support it; however, as time permits we will try to offer support on it. We will NOT be monitoring this thread on a daily basis, your best bet for a fast reply would be to go post here.

Common Issues/Topics
Chat Bar Don't Show Up?
Have you configured the usergroup settings? This is the most common issue we see, and 99% of the time it is due to usergroup settings not being configured properly. So if your bar is not showing up, please verify your usergroup settings before reporting it as an issue.

Messages Don't Show Up?
We are aware of an issue causing messages to not show up for some people, and are looking into fixes.

Modification Has Conflict With Another Product
There is always a chance that two products will conflict with each other! We are aware of some, but please feel free to tell us about any products you find to conflict via our Bug Tracker on our site.

Chat Doesn't Support Certain Characters
The chat can only support the characters your board itself can support! If you would like to support certain characters, you must have your board using a charset that supports them. We have only ever once noticed a chat that didn't support every character the board did, and we are looking in it.

Chat Kills My Server
We have tested the chat extensively for server friendliness, and have found it to be very gentle on servers. We have seen the script run with hundreds of active users without putting hardly any load on the server. However, an improperly configured server may result in any reverse-AJAX/push-AJAX/Comet based chat script killing the server. If you find that your server slows down after installation, you may want to talk with your host about raising your MySQL and Apache Max Connection Limits to a more appropriate amount!

[dog199200]

Ok I can't seem to get it working properly, so how much would be the fee be?

Also I found a small error with the styling. For some reason, I can change the color and stuff of the style, and no matter what it will remain the same. It wont even change after editing the CSS by hand.

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by dog199200

Ok I can't seem to get it working properly, so how much would be the fee be?

Also I found a small error with the styling. For some reason, I can change the color and stuff of the style, and no matter what it will remain the same. It wont even change after editing the CSS by hand.

For the css issue, try hitting CTRL+F5 to clear your cache.

As for the other part, we will look into it more in detail in the morning and contact you via PM.

[laebshade]

This addon caused Apache to segfault, as shown below:

[Sat Aug  6 23:04:43 2011] pid 31463 mod_whatkilledus sig 11 crash
[Sat Aug  6 23:04:43 2011] pid 31463 mod_whatkilledus active connection: 70.124.60.22:57047->66.228.54.146:80 (conn_rec 9259138)
[Sat Aug  6 23:04:43 2011] pid 31463 mod_whatkilledus active request (request_rec 92511c0):
POST /ideal_chat_update_stream.php HTTP/1.1|Host:exampledomain.com|Connection:keep-alive|Referer:http%3a//exampledomain.com/search.php?do=getnew&contenttype=vBForum_Post|Content-Length:109|Origin:http%3a//exampledomain.com|X-Requested-With:XMLHttpRequest|User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.107 Safari/535.1|Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8|Accept:*/*|Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch|Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8|Accept-Charset:UTF-8,*;q=0.5|Cookie:vbulletin_userlist_hide_avatars_incomingreqs=0; bb_picvote2187=1; bb_picvote2188=1; editor_height=fe%2523620px; bb_userstyleid=1; bb_skipmobilestyle=0; vbulletin_collapse=; bb_vsaltua_target_id=11905; bb_vsaltua_target_act=1312412414; bb_vsaltua_origid=0; bb_vsaltua_origuser=0; bb_vsaltua_active=0; bb_userid=13872; bb_password=d4e572ea864e352ed06b92060e2d93bc; bbcustomerid=535ca03d670da41535e42b4329dd41c9; PIWIK_SESSID=3udmiee05ri6gact273huog017; bb_cpsession=80613eb215740f09387bf7343388b913; bb_calendar=6d9235a6ddaf6b7b3c935114e3dfd094c89e34f9a-3-%257Bs-7-.calyear._i-2011_s-8-.calmonth._i-8_s-8-.calview1._s-12-.displaymonth._%257D; __cmbU=ABJeb18OvSr5364_qB0nbmdhU5ehNV-2ghLtJBz3cKiF-iO1cgQU9m5fyahS8u0_mLWaWyuFcE6PjycRwcTuJlmJnPDuZ3Egmw; Cacti=j9ghgc5jg8tomh8qmojhn355h4; s_cc=true; s_sq=%255B%255BB%255D%255D; vbulletin_userlist_hide_avatars_buddylist=0; bb_lastvisit=1312685839; bb_lastactivity=0; __cmbDomTm=0; __cmbTpvTm=563; bb_; vbulletin_sidebar_collapse=1; __utma=145956479.484060682.1304296886.1312667328.1312675638.369; __utmb=145956479.207.10.1312675638; __utmc=145956479; __utmz=145956479.1312675638.369.33.utmcsr=google%7cutmccn=(organic)%7cutmcmd=organic%7cutmctr=zzr%2520bikes; _pk_id.1.9703=9079da6866d67410.1311895191.30.1312689097.1312667366.; _pk_ses.1.9703=*; iwt_idealChatData=%257B%2522lastMessageId%2522%253A%25220%2522%252C%2522lastChatMessageId%2522%253A%25220%2522%252C%2522openChatRooms%2522%253A%257B%257D%252C%2522openMenu%2522%253A%2522icbb_chatroom_1%2522%257D
[Sat Aug  6 23:04:43 2011] pid 31463 mod_whatkilledus end of report

Uninstalled.

[Mr Peabody]

Had a problem where it would make the quick post and pm reply box blank in IE8/9. Worked fine if you switched to compatibility mode.
Had to disable it for now.

[dog199200]

Oh another question, does the system have an auto purge setup, so it deletes messages that are older then a certain date? I haven't seen one, but I also haven't picked through all the javascript either. It would be a good idea to add a purge system, where the user can determine how long and often everything is purged. Something like this would work, it run every time the page is refreshed, or even as a cronjob:

<?php
require_once("./global.php");
$today = date('U', strtotime('-24 hours'));
$vbulletin->db->query_write("DELETE FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "iwt_chatroom_messages WHERE timestamp <= $today");
$vbulletin->db->query_write("DELETE FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "iwt_chat_convos WHERE timestamp <= $today");
?>

Just a suggestion

[clubvr4]

WOuld it be possible to make the general chat tabs available as a pop out? - It would allow members to chat using a larger window.

[sapphiremagus]

Originally Posted by laebshade

This addon caused Apache to segfault, as shown below:

[Sat Aug  6 23:04:43 2011] pid 31463 mod_whatkilledus sig 11 crash
[Sat Aug  6 23:04:43 2011] pid 31463 mod_whatkilledus active connection: 70.124.60.22:57047->66.228.54.146:80 (conn_rec 9259138)
[Sat Aug  6 23:04:43 2011] pid 31463 mod_whatkilledus active request (request_rec 92511c0):
POST /ideal_chat_update_stream.php HTTP/1.1|Host:exampledomain.com|Connection:keep-alive|Referer:http%3a//exampledomain.com/search.php?do=getnew&contenttype=vBForum_Post|Content-Length:109|Origin:http%3a//exampledomain.com|X-Requested-With:XMLHttpRequest|User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.107 Safari/535.1|Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8|Accept:*/*|Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch|Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8|Accept-Charset:UTF-8,*;q=0.5|Cookie:vbulletin_userlist_hide_avatars_incomingreqs=0; bb_picvote2187=1; bb_picvote2188=1; editor_height=fe%2523620px; bb_userstyleid=1; bb_skipmobilestyle=0; vbulletin_collapse=; bb_vsaltua_target_id=11905; bb_vsaltua_target_act=1312412414; bb_vsaltua_origid=0; bb_vsaltua_origuser=0; bb_vsaltua_active=0; bb_userid=13872; bb_password=d4e572ea864e352ed06b92060e2d93bc; bbcustomerid=535ca03d670da41535e42b4329dd41c9; PIWIK_SESSID=3udmiee05ri6gact273huog017; bb_cpsession=80613eb215740f09387bf7343388b913; bb_calendar=6d9235a6ddaf6b7b3c935114e3dfd094c89e34f9a-3-%257Bs-7-.calyear._i-2011_s-8-.calmonth._i-8_s-8-.calview1._s-12-.displaymonth._%257D; __cmbU=ABJeb18OvSr5364_qB0nbmdhU5ehNV-2ghLtJBz3cKiF-iO1cgQU9m5fyahS8u0_mLWaWyuFcE6PjycRwcTuJlmJnPDuZ3Egmw; Cacti=j9ghgc5jg8tomh8qmojhn355h4; s_cc=true; s_sq=%255B%255BB%255D%255D; vbulletin_userlist_hide_avatars_buddylist=0; bb_lastvisit=1312685839; bb_lastactivity=0; __cmbDomTm=0; __cmbTpvTm=563; bb_; vbulletin_sidebar_collapse=1; __utma=145956479.484060682.1304296886.1312667328.1312675638.369; __utmb=145956479.207.10.1312675638; __utmc=145956479; __utmz=145956479.1312675638.369.33.utmcsr=google%7cutmccn=(organic)%7cutmcmd=organic%7cutmctr=zzr%2520bikes; _pk_id.1.9703=9079da6866d67410.1311895191.30.1312689097.1312667366.; _pk_ses.1.9703=*; iwt_idealChatData=%257B%2522lastMessageId%2522%253A%25220%2522%252C%2522lastChatMessageId%2522%253A%25220%2522%252C%2522openChatRooms%2522%253A%257B%257D%252C%2522openMenu%2522%253A%2522icbb_chatroom_1%2522%257D
[Sat Aug  6 23:04:43 2011] pid 31463 mod_whatkilledus end of report

Uninstalled.

I don't know if this is a similar issue or not, but the product caused havoc with our host's virtualization of PHP through CGI:

[error] [client ****] FastCGI: comm with (dynamic) server "<true site path>/html-x-httpd-php5" aborted: (first read) idle timeout (60 sec)
[error] [client ****] FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server "<true site path>/html-x-httpd-php5"

I'll be checking with our host (GoDaddy) and see what that means but for the time being I can't run this on our site. We start getting a crap ton of internal server errors represented by the above with occasional windows of usage. We love the addon and would likely get the pro version after we raised some cash but until I can get the lite to play nice with the server there's no sense in considering it

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by laebshade

This addon caused Apache to segfault, as shown below:

[Sat Aug  6 23:04:43 2011] pid 31463 mod_whatkilledus sig 11 crash
[Sat Aug  6 23:04:43 2011] pid 31463 mod_whatkilledus active connection: 70.124.60.22:57047->66.228.54.146:80 (conn_rec 9259138)
[Sat Aug  6 23:04:43 2011] pid 31463 mod_whatkilledus active request (request_rec 92511c0):
POST /ideal_chat_update_stream.php HTTP/1.1|Host:exampledomain.com|Connection:keep-alive|Referer:http%3a//exampledomain.com/search.php?do=getnew&contenttype=vBForum_Post|Content-Length:109|Origin:http%3a//exampledomain.com|X-Requested-With:XMLHttpRequest|User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.107 Safari/535.1|Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8|Accept:*/*|Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch|Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8|Accept-Charset:UTF-8,*;q=0.5|Cookie:vbulletin_userlist_hide_avatars_incomingreqs=0; bb_picvote2187=1; bb_picvote2188=1; editor_height=fe%2523620px; bb_userstyleid=1; bb_skipmobilestyle=0; vbulletin_collapse=; bb_vsaltua_target_id=11905; bb_vsaltua_target_act=1312412414; bb_vsaltua_origid=0; bb_vsaltua_origuser=0; bb_vsaltua_active=0; bb_userid=13872; bb_password=d4e572ea864e352ed06b92060e2d93bc; bbcustomerid=535ca03d670da41535e42b4329dd41c9; PIWIK_SESSID=3udmiee05ri6gact273huog017; bb_cpsession=80613eb215740f09387bf7343388b913; bb_calendar=6d9235a6ddaf6b7b3c935114e3dfd094c89e34f9a-3-%257Bs-7-.calyear._i-2011_s-8-.calmonth._i-8_s-8-.calview1._s-12-.displaymonth._%257D; __cmbU=ABJeb18OvSr5364_qB0nbmdhU5ehNV-2ghLtJBz3cKiF-iO1cgQU9m5fyahS8u0_mLWaWyuFcE6PjycRwcTuJlmJnPDuZ3Egmw; Cacti=j9ghgc5jg8tomh8qmojhn355h4; s_cc=true; s_sq=%255B%255BB%255D%255D; vbulletin_userlist_hide_avatars_buddylist=0; bb_lastvisit=1312685839; bb_lastactivity=0; __cmbDomTm=0; __cmbTpvTm=563; bb_; vbulletin_sidebar_collapse=1; __utma=145956479.484060682.1304296886.1312667328.1312675638.369; __utmb=145956479.207.10.1312675638; __utmc=145956479; __utmz=145956479.1312675638.369.33.utmcsr=google%7cutmccn=(organic)%7cutmcmd=organic%7cutmctr=zzr%2520bikes; _pk_id.1.9703=9079da6866d67410.1311895191.30.1312689097.1312667366.; _pk_ses.1.9703=*; iwt_idealChatData=%257B%2522lastMessageId%2522%253A%25220%2522%252C%2522lastChatMessageId%2522%253A%25220%2522%252C%2522openChatRooms%2522%253A%257B%257D%252C%2522openMenu%2522%253A%2522icbb_chatroom_1%2522%257D
[Sat Aug  6 23:04:43 2011] pid 31463 mod_whatkilledus end of report

Uninstalled.

Originally Posted by sapphiremagus

I don't know if this is a similar issue or not, but the product caused havoc with our host's virtualization of PHP through CGI:

[error] [client ****] FastCGI: comm with (dynamic) server "<true site path>/html-x-httpd-php5" aborted: (first read) idle timeout (60 sec)
[error] [client ****] FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server "<true site path>/html-x-httpd-php5"

I'll be checking with our host (GoDaddy) and see what that means but for the time being I can't run this on our site. We start getting a crap ton of internal server errors represented by the above with occasional windows of usage. We love the addon and would likely get the pro version after we raised some cash but until I can get the lite to play nice with the server there's no sense in considering it

Originally Posted by Mr Peabody

Had a problem where it would make the quick post and pm reply box blank in IE8/9. Worked fine if you switched to compatibility mode.
Had to disable it for now.

We will be looking into those issues to see what may have happened, and see about patching a fix to prevent it in future versions.

Originally Posted by dog199200

Oh another question, does the system have an auto purge setup, so it deletes messages that are older then a certain date? I haven't seen one, but I also haven't picked through all the javascript either. It would be a good idea to add a purge system, where the user can determine how long and often everything is purged. Something like this would work, it run every time the page is refreshed, or even as a cronjob:

<?php
require_once("./global.php");
$today = date('U', strtotime('-24 hours'));
$vbulletin->db->query_write("DELETE FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "iwt_chatroom_messages WHERE timestamp <= $today");
$vbulletin->db->query_write("DELETE FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "iwt_chat_convos WHERE timestamp <= $today");
?>

Just a suggestion

Originally Posted by clubvr4

WOuld it be possible to make the general chat tabs available as a pop out? - It would allow members to chat using a larger window.

Both of these suggestions are already planned. (We have a large list of planned features, and we will be building them into future versions as time permits.)

[alencete]

It's cool!!!! very nice work! : Up:: Up:: Up:

so the chat is incompatible with the Spanish language. No good work with UTF-8, problems witch avatar, no show the avatars in "firends online", and problem witch time of chat.

Regards

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by alencete

It's cool!!!! very nice work! : Up:: Up:: Up:

so the chat is incompatible with the Spanish language. No good work with UTF-8, problems witch avatar, no show the avatars in "firends online", and problem witch time of chat.

Regards

I'm not sure what you mean by no good with UTF-8 as we are currently running it with UTF-8 encoding on our demo site.

There was a bug in the avatars, but it was fixed in version 1.1.2. If you are still seeing the issue with 1.1.2, please let us know.

As for the time of the chat, we have not noticed any issues with it, nor have any been reported, so could you please be a little more specific.