Embedded chat

This "hack" will allow you to run a semi-integrated (free or paid) chat room "inside" your forum:

+ It's quite generic and should work with several chat providers (made a seperate template, just for the applet code)
+ The chat room will be displayed within your forum's structure,
+ The chat applet will be sized according to the user's screen resolution (could get scary at 1600x1200 )
+ People will be logged into the chat room using their forum usernames (if the chat supports auto-login)
+ Invalid characters in usernames will be replaced before logging in to the chat, plus too lengty names will be shortened
+ Easy installation

- At this time there's no feedback from the chat room to the forum. A "chat monitor" is planned though (version 2)

The install docs and template examples are mainly focussed on the chat provider we use (http://www.raidersoft.com), but it shouldn't be a problem adjusting one or two things to get this thing to work with your own chat provider.

The sizes of the chat applet haven't been tested out fully. I have no clue how bigger resolutions work out. All the rest seems to work fine.

Hope you like it...

[update 1.4]Sizes can now be set more easily, just by editing the chatredirect template, nothing else.
Added support for raidersoft's ICE, which is more flexible with usernames.

[Trevor Hannant]

Have installed this hack for SigmaChat but don't have the 'chat' link on our Forum Home Page.

- Edited chat.php and uploaded it into the root directory
- Added the templates into the Default set (which is currently still in use!) :disappointed:

Any common mistakes/misunderstandings over the instructions that I could have made?

[Toogy]

ok, I bought the platinum addition and I can't get the auto login feature to work.
Please help me out, where do I set that?
Here is what I am calling from the chatbit template

<applet
codebase="http://client.sigmachat.com/current/"
code="Client.class" archive="scclient_en.zip"
width=700 height=400 MAYSCRIPT>
<param name="room" value="xxxxxx">
<param name="cabbase" value="scclient_en.cab">
<param name="username" value="$USERNAME">
<param name="password" value="$PASSWORD">
<param name="autologin" value="yes"
</applet>

And it always says invalid username & password, even though I am logged into my board.

Anybody have any ideas?

[Toogy]

05-15-03 at 03:38 PM Trevster said this in Post #211
Have installed this hack for SigmaChat but don't have the 'chat' link on our Forum Home Page.

- Edited chat.php and uploaded it into the root directory
- Added the templates into the Default set (which is currently still in use!) :disappointed:

Any common mistakes/misunderstandings over the instructions that I could have made?

What problems are you having? Try re-uploading chat.php in ASCII mode. I hade a problem at first and that fixed it.

[gmarik]

How much is the registered version and where is the info about it?

[Trevor Hannant]

Today at 02:10 AM Toogy said this in Post #212
ok, I bought the platinum addition and I can't get the auto login feature to work.
Please help me out, where do I set that?
Here is what I am calling from the chatbit template

<applet
codebase="http://client.sigmachat.com/current/"
code="Client.class" archive="scclient_en.zip"
width=700 height=400 MAYSCRIPT>
<param name="room" value="xxxxxx">
<param name="cabbase" value="scclient_en.cab">
<param name="username" value="$USERNAME">
<param name="password" value="$PASSWORD">
<param name="autologin" value="yes"
</applet>

And it always says invalid username & password, even though I am logged into my board.

Anybody have any ideas?

I assume that you've changed the x's in this line:

<param name="room" value="xxxxxx">

to the id of your chat room?

And thanks for the tip. Will try that one out later!

[matthewc]

yeah, the auto login doesn't work for me either. what happens is it displays the username of the user in the "name" field, but they can change it before they click login.

thats just wrong.

[Toogy]

Well I am using the authorization script from Raidersoft so users still have to login as themselves and can't login in as anybody else unless they have the correct information, but I would really love the autologin feature to work.

Anybody have any ideas?

[weewilly]

Absolutely fantastic!

Works like a charm :nervous:

I followed your example and got a raidersoft platinum chatroom. This is way better than phpMyChat and doesn't eat your bandwidth.

[discussfitness]

Anyone using Sigmachat beware. There is an easy way to get two usernames in the chat even when you do have auto-login enabled.

Try this and you will see...

Here it is...

1) You auto-log in to the chat room using this embedded chat script.
2) You then open a new browser window
3) The 2nd chat window auto-logs you in again and kicks the first user (as it's a duplicate)
4) The 1st user is kicked to the login page! Which just loads and sits there.
5) The 1st user then chooses another name and clicks login
6) You now have 2 users who are the same person!

To solve this:

Go to your SigmatChat control panel > URL Settings > and set an Exit URL

[SternFan]

Any way to get the raidersoft ice to auto login?