Integration with vBulletin - FlashChat - Who is in the chat.

This modification is no longer available or supported.

This is a simple display of who is currently chatting in FlashChat - on the forum homepage display.

The main features of Version 4.xx are basically the same as previous versions ;

1. It displays the list on Forum Home with the "Users online" display.
2. The list view is collapsable, so you see just the number.
3. Users who should display as coloured or bold etc are displayed correctly (based on the display usergroup)
4. If you 'hover' over a username it will show the room they are chatting in and their status (away etc).
5. If the chat is empty, a simple "no one is chatting" message is displayed.
6. The hack is now phrased.
7. The ability to turn it on/off is in the ACP Forum Home Options.
8. The ability to allow only certain usergroups to view the list is an ACP option.
9. The location of the flashchat folder is now an ACP option (vBulletin Options > Forums Home Page Options).

Unzip the XML and import into vB using the ACP Product Manager.

To upgrade from version 4.10 onwards, you need to re-import the product with the overwrite option set to yes. To upgrade from version 4.02 to version 4.10 onwards, you need to uninstall the product and remove the template code in FORUMHOME - then upload the new product. To upgrade from version 3.xx to version 4.xx you need to delete the existing plugin and remove the template code in FORUMHOME - then upload the new product.

* An add-on to display a 'Most ever chatters' count is available here.


Note: This hack cannot display any bots in the chat, due to the strange way that flashchat stores this information. Please also note that I am not Tufat.com or anything to do with the Flashchat product - if you have questions about Flashchat in general, their forums are here.


History:

v4.10 : Removed the need to edit the FORUMHOME template.
v4.11 : Hyperlinked display icon to chat page. Added vb number formatting to count.
v4.12 : Added ALT tag to above hyperlink.
v4.13 : Updated ACP view permission option to take into account secondary groups.
v4.14 : Added 'nofollow' attribute to listed usernames.
v4.15 : Restricted list based on flashchat autologout parameter, to get round the issue of connections not being cleaned up.
v4.16 : Minor changes, no update necessary.
v4.17 : Added members status to hover information.
v4.18 : Re-wrote status code to take account of custom status definitions.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by zendiver

In the previous versions, it was pretty upfront how you changed the text and the link, but I can't find either of them. Someone point me in the right direction.
This is what it says now: Members currently using Flashchat:
And the link defaults to the /forums/chat/flashchat.php
I have changeed the name in the VBCP and entered the correct folder name, but when you roll over the whos_online.gif, the link goes to the above default and of course I get the Page Not Found.

TIA

Edit the 'Display_Chatters' template.

[VAN]

Any way to get this to count bots as well?

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by VAN

Any way to get this to count bots as well?

From the first post.

Note: This hack cannot display any bots in the chat, due to the strange way that flashchat stores this information.

[TexasAtvs]

This is the error I am recieving after installing everything. Can someone please tell me what I did wrong or how to fix this? Thanks!

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.1:

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 flashchat_connections as connections
LEFT JOIN flashchat_rooms as rooms ON(connections.roomid = rooms.id)
LEFT JOIN user as user ON(connections.userid = user.userid)
LEFT JOIN usergroup as groupa ON(user.usergroupid = groupa.usergroupid)
LEFT JOIN usergroup as groupb ON(user.displaygroupid = groupb.usergroupid)
WHERE connections.userid > 0 AND connections.ip != '0.0.0.0' ORDER BY start;

MySQL Error : Table 'texasatv_vbulletin.flashchat_connections' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Date : Saturday, November 26th 2005 @ 10:02:34 PM
Script : http://69.16.204.245/forums/index.php
Referrer :
IP Address : 70.114.206.223
Username : Brandon
Classname : vb_database

[Paul M]

Make sure the prefix defined in flashchat's config.srv.php is correct (i.e matches the actual prefix of your flashchat tables). atm it looks like it's set to 'flashchat_' , which appears to be wrong.

[TexasAtvs]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Make sure the prefix defined in flashchat's config.srv.php is correct (i.e matches the actual prefix of your flashchat tables). atm it looks like it's set to 'flashchat_' , which appears to be wrong.

Okay I pulled up Php My Admin and found the following tables:

texasatv_flashchat

flashchat_bans
flashchat_bot
flashchat_bots
flashchat_connections
flashchat_conversationlog
flashchat_dstore
flashchat_gmcache
flashchat_gossip
flashchat_ignors
flashchat_messages
flashchat_patterns
flashchat_rooms
flashchat_templates
flashchat_thatindex
flashchat_thatstack
flashchat_users

Isn't this correct ?? I dont see what is wrong with the tables

[Paul M]

What is texasatv_flashchat ?

Also - if you want me to look at what's wrong then I need ftp access and an admin id with full permissions (inc running sql queries).

I suggest you disable the product in the product manager until I can take a look.

[Paul M]

Okay, thanks for the PM, I have checked your system and the probem is that you have not installed flashchat as an integrated solution with vbulletin - it is installed as a totally seperate entity, even to the point of having it's own seperate database.

You cannot use this hack with such an installation - it requires you to have installed flashchat integrated with vb.

[.Tim]

How hard would it be or would it be possible to have it show in the users postbit or profile (preferably profile) that they're in the chat?

[Paul M]

It wouldn't be very difficult - just add a plugin to global_start to scan the users in the chat and set a global variable to true if they are - that variable could then be used anywhere in the forum (like in a template conditional).