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.

[gokke]

Hi

will this work whit phpchat ???

Best Regards Gokke

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by zendiver

No sir...that didn't work. I even unistalled both of them, then reinstalled in the order you suggested...WIC comes in above WVT.

In the previous version prior to 3.5, the latest install took priority, doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Any other suggestions?

There is no change in the class_hook code between 3.5.1 and 3.5.2, it runs them in the order it pulls them from the database, so as far as I can see the installation order should still affect this. There is still no other way to alter their execution order until this feature gets added to vb.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by gokke

will this work whit phpchat ???

No..

[zendiver]

Originally Posted by Paul M

There is no change in the class_hook code between 3.5.1 and 3.5.2, it runs them in the order it pulls them from the database, so as far as I can see the installation order should still affect this. There is still no other way to alter their execution order until this feature gets added to vb.

I was referring to to versions priort to 3.5, sorry for not clarifing this. Well, I will see what I can do about changing things up some. I was just hoping that you may have ran into this before and had an easy fix.

[dfdems]

Hello,

I am trying to keep my board as close to w3c valid as possible. I installed this (works great!) but it brings an error. No "alt" tag for the who's online image.

If it's OK with you (it's your hack) I would like to change the code on my installation

whos_online.gif" border="0"

to

whos_online.gif" alt="" border="0"

so it validates.

[Paul M]

Sure, feel free. It will get added as a low priority update at some point anyway.

[Reeftanksonline]

why does my users never get loged out , if they go to the chat room it keeps them active in the chat room for days??

[Rickie3]

excellent thankyou *installs*

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Reeftanksonline

why does my users never get loged out , if they go to the chat room it keeps them active in the chat room for days??

Search back in the thread - it's mentioned numerous times (user error / flashchat issue).

[BiReL41r]

It says that I'm always in the Chat, yet I'm not...Bug?