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.

[Sypher]

it seems as if half of the admins who've installed this hack aren't able to get messages through...

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by Sypher

it seems as if half of the admins who've installed this hack aren't able to get messages through...

I've installed it works fine.... running on 3.3

[Oldfart]

Originally Posted by Sypher

it seems as if half of the admins who've installed this hack aren't able to get messages through...

Well it's a 50/50 chance it seems. Sometimes it works on my site and sometimes it doesn't. I wish there was a way to notify users to open their bb|messenger when you send someone a message.

[Steve123]

Originally Posted by Oldfart

Well it's a 50/50 chance it seems. Sometimes it works on my site and sometimes it doesn't. I wish there was a way to notify users to open their bb|messenger when you send someone a message.

i cant get it working at all..

its weird because it uploads the messages to the sql db and it downloads and removes them..

but dosent display them..

i even tried a default install.

[C.Birch]

Originally Posted by Oldfart

Well it's a 50/50 chance it seems. Sometimes it works on my site and sometimes it doesn't. I wish there was a way to notify users to open their bb|messenger when you send someone a message.

there messenger should be open anyway if your able to send them a message.

people having probs not getting messagesare you sure you have no pop up blockers on that might stop the message window poping up if someone sends you a message. i know some aol users might have probs due to the way aol works.

[TTG]

Clean install on 3.0.1 .. great hack.

Not being a php coder .. one question .. how do I get the messenger to open in a seperate window ..<a href="bbmessenger/index.php">$vboptions[bbtitle]Messenger</a> - ?

[Tailfeathers]

Can you talk to several people at once? *hope so so that I could use this as a messenger and chat room*

TTG -- change
<a href="bbmessenger/index.php">

to
a href="bbmessenger/index.php" target="_blank">

[C.Birch]

Originally Posted by Tailfeathers

Can you talk to several people at once? *hope so so that I could use this as a messenger and chat room*

Not in the same window but you can have muti windows open talking to people.

[MrFaldyn]

I got it working the way it should, but it kills the server speed

This is an amazing hack. Too bad I can't use it

[C.Birch]

Originally Posted by MrFaldyn

I got it working the way it should, but it kills the server speed

This is an amazing hack. Too bad I can't use it

open bbm_messenger.php and find:

// choose processing delay, 1 second for windows, 0.2 seconds for everyone else (windows does not support usleep)
if (ONWINDOWS)
{
sleep(1);
} else
{
usleep(2000000);
}


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play about with the 1 and 2000000 numbers making them bigger this is slow down the mssengers reload rate what will put less load on your server only down side is new messages will not be live you get them at what ever reload rate you pick.