Add-On Releases - Official AddonChat Product

vBulletin 3.7.x Official Integration & Authentication Extension

Product Info
Name: AddonChat Official Integration Product
Product ID: ac80_37
Version: 3.7.0
Author: AddonInteractive (http://www.addoninteractive.com/)
Last Modified: 15 May. 2008
Compatibility: vBulletin 3.7.x

Overview
This extension allows you to fully integrate a AddonChat Free, Professional, Professional PLUS or Enterprise Java? Chat Room with your vBulletin 3.7 forum system. This script provides basic integration for AddonChat Free and Professional customers. Remote authentication (the ability to secure access to your chat room using your vBulletin username/passwords) is available for Pro+/Enterprise customers, as well as a Who's Chatting feature.

Requirements

• vBulletin 3.7 or higher
• AddonChat Free, Professional PLUS, or Enterprise, or AddonChat Professional with the Remote (HTTP) Authentication System. You may register for a AddonChat account at www.addonchat.com. A Professional PLUS or Enterprise account is recommended to take advantage of advanced features.
• (optional, but recommended) PHP with allow_url_fopen directive enabled in your php.ini file or the PHP CURL extension. This is required to download the Who's Chatting list from AddonChat servers.

What's new?
This script is a completely revamped edition of our previous integration script. Installation no longer requires any template or code modifications. Additionally, there are no PHP files to edit when setting up your chat room. We have added an "AddonChat" menu item in the vBulletin AdminCP that allows you to setup and configure your chat room with ease. Most users will simply need to enter their account number and password (as used at addonchat.com) and your chat room settings will be retrieved automatically, with your remote authentication system updated automatically as well. We have also improved character code support through better UTF-8 conversion allowing non-English speakers to use a vBulletin+AddonChat without issue. Issues relating to the Who's Chatting system causing problems have also been addresses; a scheduled task has been added to automatically optimize and repair AddonChat related tables daily in addition to improvements to the re-written Who's Chatting system.

Features

• Seamless integration between your vBulletin forum and AddonChat
• After installation, setup and configure your chat room from the AddonChat menu in your vBulletin Admin Control Panel
• Popup and Embedded Chat room link options
• Automatic (ten minute interval) User's Chatting count updates
• Real-Time Who's Chatting list
• Display the amount of users within your chat room on your main navbar shown throughout your entire forum
• Remote authentication allows you to authenticate access into your chat room based on your vBulletin user database
• Automatic user login option
• Seamless integration with vBulletin Usergroup permissions (remote authentication)
• Remote functions system allows you to tie in vBulletin forum functions into the AddonChat user menu
• Uses the vBulletin XML product import architecture, making installation/uninstallation simple.
• No code or template modifications required
• Automated account lookup - just enter your account number and password, and your information will be automatically retrieved. (allow_url_fopen must be enabled in PHP)
• Multi-lingual (UTF-8) support

Installation
Installaion takes less than five minutes. Download the supplied ZIP file, and extract it on your personal computer. Open the readme.txt file for full installation instructions. No PHP code modifications or template modifications are required. This script makes use of the vBulletin XML Product system for a fast and painless installation.

Support
Support is provided by AddonInteractive for this script provided you have a Professional, Professional PLUS or Enterprise AddonChat account. Read the included instructions for details. Please let us know if you have any problems installing this extension.

[Battle_Ring]

does this give you a way to log chats?

[Jaxel]

I'm getting the following error: "http authentication not permitted" Why?

I have a Professional PLUS account.

[Jaxel]

Okay... got everything working and I LOVE this program already... There are a few bugs/requests/changes that need to be addressed in the next version of this mod for Addonchat...

1 - uncached templates (I already fixed this in my version)
2 - support for the community link in 3.8 (already fixed in my version)
3 - better templates. I rewrote all my templates, to handle 100% widths.
4 - better who's chatting template...

The who's chatting page should NOT be its own page. It should be on top of the forum home, the same way this mod does it: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=196466

[Jaxel]

I've made my own version of this product (attached)... it brings support for vb3.8 and who's chatting on forumhome.

[rgamill]

Originally Posted by swift535

The Plugin does conflict with Vbadvanced cmps. I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't load until I removed the addonchat.php files from being integrated into my pages. Once addon chat is no longer integrated within vba cmps, it worked fine.

As far as I can tell this doesn't have any adverse effects. Everything still looks just as it should and is working properly.

The only problem I have left, is I don't know how to exclude the addonchat files from integration with the default Homepage page that cmps has. Hopefully I'll get that figured out tomorrow, because right now you still can't enter the chat from that individual page.

I am a little confused. Addonchat plugin conflicts with the Vbadvanced cmps only when it's integrated with vBa-cmps-created page, right?

[Videx]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

I've made my own version of this product (attached)... it brings support for vb3.8 and who's chatting on forumhome.

I don't understand. Please explain. Are you saying if we install this product after the AddonChat product we'll have a "who's chatting" box somewhere? Or install it in place of?

[scourge]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

I've made my own version of this product (attached)... it brings support for vb3.8 and who's chatting on forumhome.

You might want to take the icon size out of your product. Took me a while to figure that out.. massive icons Also, an option to toggle the forum home bit would be nice. I ended up editing your new product to remove that box.

[scourge]

Originally Posted by Videx

I don't understand. Please explain. Are you saying if we install this product after the AddonChat product we'll have a "who's chatting" box somewhere? Or install it in place of?

You uninstall the current product and install his. Although it puts the who's chatting box at the top of the forum rather than the bottom and there is also the icon thing I mentioned above. Having the chat stuff under Community is so much nicer though.

[SpottySocks]

A few weeks ago I upgraded forum to 3.8. I'm wondering if this version of addonchat is fully compatible?

A few members have reported having problems getting into chat. Even though they're logged into the forum, when they load chat it keeps say "invalid username or password".

Can anyone help this with? Is it a cookie problem? Anything I can do to help stop it? It's really irritating.

[Trek]

This works pretty good, however if you want to take advantage of anything vBulletin wise (other than it auto logging you in), you're going to have to pay a minimum of $125.00 a year. Only the Professional PLUS version uses any of the vBulletin usergroup options, etc.

Anyway, since it's per year, I've decided to keep looking at other products. I'd of paid it had it been a onetime fee.

Good stuff otherwise though.