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!

[clubvr4]

Originally Posted by Ideal Web Tech

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.)

Would it be possible to publish this list? - so you dont keep getting repeat questions

[alencete]

Originally Posted by Ideal Web Tech

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.

I have updated and the problem of fixed avatars. Other problems remain.

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by clubvr4

Would it be possible to publish this list? - so you dont keep getting repeat questions

We have thought about releasing it, but we don't want to release any info about features until we have confirmed that they are in place and coming with the next version!

We have found with other products, that if you say a feature is planned, people expect it in the next version, and then get mad if its not.

Originally Posted by alencete

I have updated and the problem of fixed avatars. Other problems remain.

What encoding is your board using? The encoding that chat uses is the same as what your board is set to use. So if your board doesn't support those characters, then the chat won't either.

As for the date one, that is very interesting. We will look into that some more!

[sapphiremagus]

Just an update on my issue - asked customer service what happened and all I got back was "we don't support java on our shared servers" ... extremely helpful, I know. I'm looking at alternative hosting at the moment because that seems like BS to me.

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by sapphiremagus

Just an update on my issue - asked customer service what happened and all I got back was "we don't support java on our shared servers" ... extremely helpful, I know. I'm looking at alternative hosting at the moment because that seems like BS to me.

That is a very bad response considering nothing in this product uses Java.

[sapphiremagus]

Originally Posted by Ideal Web Tech

That is a very bad response considering nothing in this product uses Java.

Agreed, which really just nailed the coffin shut on staying with them as host. In any event, hopefully you can garner some information from the relatively ambiguous log information I provided. If the problem shows up again after I change hosts I'll let you know, and hopefully have a better description of the issue.

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by sapphiremagus

Agreed, which really just nailed the coffin shut on staying with them as host. In any event, hopefully you can garner some information from the relatively ambiguous log information I provided. If the problem shows up again after I change hosts I'll let you know, and hopefully have a better description of the issue.

If you need a good host, you might want to look at Liquid Web. We use them currently, and they have always been very quick to respond if we ever do have any issue.

As for keeping us updated, please do, the more information we have, the quicker we can stomp out the bugs!

[leave it to bea]

I've installed this on a couple of VB forums running 4.1.5 and I'm having the same issue danhaga was having. I can type in a message but it's not showing up until the page is refreshed or I kill the chat session and reopen the box.

http://www.austinareastangs.com/forums/forum.php

I'll send you a login and password via pm.

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by leave it to bea

I've installed this on a couple of VB forums running 4.1.5 and I'm having the same issue danhaga was having. I can type in a message but it's not showing up until the page is refreshed or I kill the chat session and reopen the box.

http://www.austinareastangs.com/forums/forum.php

I'll send you a login and password via pm.

We have noticed this issue on a couple of boards now, and we are looking into a fix for it.

[destacamos]

Originally Posted by alencete

I have updated and the problem of fixed avatars. Other problems remain.

i have the same problem, TIME and characters "?"