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.

an easy setting would be to have a permission based messenger, so users with permission are displayed only...

[NuclioN]

After the install you see this: "BB|Messenger is now ready for use
Click Here To Load BB|Messenger"

When i click on Load BB|Messenger it asked to login. Altough i was loggedin already, i've logged out and again logged in and tried again.
Then i see this:
"Click here to goto the login page
Once you have logged into the forum, load BB|Messenger again. "

??

[C.Birch]

Originally Posted by NuclioN

After the install you see this: "BB|Messenger is now ready for use
Click Here To Load BB|Messenger"

When i click on Load BB|Messenger it asked to login. Altough i was loggedin already, i've logged out and again logged in and tried again.
Then i see this:
"Click here to goto the login page
Once you have logged into the forum, load BB|Messenger again. "

??

im guessing a cookie prob of some type.

[C.Birch]

Originally Posted by nexialys

an easy setting would be to have a permission based messenger, so users with permission are displayed only...

only user's that have the messenger loaded show up as online anyway.

oh... ok then... good thing... btw, would be good also to have that permission thing, so only selected users/groups can access it...

i may be interested to a minimalist version where only admins can be chatting, so users can see the messenger, but can only chat with admins... this would make a real "Live Support"... isn't it ?! this can be easily done once the system integrate with vB permissions.

[NuclioN]

Maybe the cookie prefix is the problem but i realy don't know how to fix this.

hum.. another suggestions... would be cool to have a seperate page for the Buddy List, so we see when our friends are online... this can be done like the module that display the News...

these suggestions btw are not only for C.Birch, any coder can do these... (i may...)

[C.Birch]

Originally Posted by nexialys

hum.. another suggestions... would be cool to have a seperate page for the Buddy List, so we see when our friends are online... this can be done like the module that display the News...

these suggestions btw are not only for C.Birch, any coder can do these... (i may...)

you mean split up the top part? because it already shows if your bubbys are online or offline at the top in the Offline Buddies and Online Buddies bits, this information is pulled from your bubby list in your user cp.


NuclioN pass also because the hack was made that long ago i have no idea where stuff is without takeing hours to look at all the files.

[NuclioN]

I hope someone can look to the code again to let it work with vb3.

yeah, i just thought it would be better to have it seperate in the bottom, like the Latest Threads, so you load that part only when needed... or it takes more resources.

btw, each block can be added per prefs, like Latest News, Buddies, so if we don't want to use them, we just click to close them... because i don't see the use of the latest threads, we already have the forum for that... but some may need it.