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]

Does anyone else get the problem of being asked to logon again?

- log on to Forums via home page
- select Chat from list and am redirected to logon page
- chat opens and have to logon to chat

Can't be right???

[SVTBlackLight01]

Has there been any progress on finding a solution for the chat page not loading?

[SVTBlackLight01]

Is this hack dead or am I just the only one that is having this problem? :disappointed:

I would like to have all the features of the paid version, but not if the free one won't work.

Does jPilot work better?

[FlyBoy73]

SVTBL01,
I have used jPilot but I don't like all the IRC issues.. Slow load times, keeping people out of the rooms, and making sure the members know how to do things in it..

If this is still working, I definitely recommend it.

[SVTBlackLight01]

It works fine at home, but I have tried it on a few other computers, and I had issues with it loading like were mentioned eariler in the thread. I didn't see anywhere that this issue had been solved. It would be great to get it working for everyone. It would be a great chat solution for my site, especially since it doesn't eat up your bandwidth.

[ConqSoft]

Has anyone updated this to work with vBulletin v3 Gamma?

Thanks

[jamescrf]

I have been trying to get sigmachat to work with vb3 for about 2 weeks, but no luck so far. I am trying to use the vb3 authentication script but it just says invalid username & password when you try and login.

[Alidar]

Loved the hack!!!!!!

*** Clicks Install ***

Went with SigmaChat, and everything worked just fine.

Puchased Plat service for vB tie-in. However, as soon as I tried to tie into my bulletin board database everything fails. I cannot seem to get the supplied script to correctly access the db and react properly.

vBulletin Version 2.3.2
VBPortal 3.0b
www.chelicera.com/forums

scauth.php been uploaded into both www.chelicera.com/forums/admin and www.chelicera.com/forums/uploads, copied the config.php file over to /uploads, and tried setting the file path in chat admin to both URLs with no success.

Every time I tried to test the scauth.php file I get the output of "0"

CHMOD was even set for RWXRWXRWX just in case that was the problem.

Someone told me gZip can affect things, is vB configured to OFF, as far as I know my server does NOT gZip either.

Can anyone help me troubleshoot things?

[xlguy]

For those of you on VB3...

I've just posted a hack which works with VB3 and Sigma Chat. It's basic but works for me
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=61238

If you have any questions reply to that thread not this one!

[dwh]

Originally Posted by 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?

I see this is an old one but in case you didn't notice under autologin you forgot to close the bracket.