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.

[Replicators]

As provided in the screenshot there is no status box at all in my forums, but thats probably because of the 2 other mods, idk.

[Paul M]

Your forum is closed to guests so there is little I can tell you.

[PJSkiboy]

Paul, works flawlessly. Thank you sir!

[m80]

ty very much paul, you do so many great things for this site and your a true asset.Assist anyone,clean and easy hacks.Thanks for all your hard work bro.

[bplinson]

Can anyone help me make this a block in vBPortal?

[NeutralizeR]

A question...

I see lots of apache http errors in the log file everyday:

2006] [error] [client 204.10.110.201] File does not exist: /home/msxlabs/public_html/forum/chat/undefined
[Mon Feb 27 19:45:33 2006] [error] [client 204.10.110.201] File does not exist: /home/msxlabs/public_html/forum/chat/undefined
[Mon Feb 27 19:45:33 2006] [error] [client 204.10.110.201] File does not exist: /home/msxlabs/public_html/forum/chat/undefined
[Mon Feb 27 19:45:33 2006] [error] [client 204.10.110.201] File does not exist: /home/msxlabs/public_html/forum/chat/undefined
[Mon Feb 27 19:45:33 2006] [error] [client 204.10.110.201] File does not exist: /home/msxlabs/public_html/forum/chat/undefined
[Mon Feb 27 19:45:33 2006] [error] [client 204.10.110.201] File does not exist: /home/msxlabs/public_html/forum/chat/undefined

The IP is the server ip, not a visitor ip. Is it because of "Who's in the chat" hack?

Veronica told me so... What's your opinion Paul?

Btw, everything is functional ...

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by NeutralizeR

The IP is the server ip, not a visitor ip. Is it because of "Who's in the chat" hack?

Veronica told me so... What's your opinion Paul?

Hmm, she likes to blame others peoples stuff. It might help if she gave a reason why she thought that rather than just making random statements.

That looks like a call to a file where the last bit is a variable, which is undefined for some reason - off the top of my head I can't think of any such call in the WIC code.

[Paul M]

In fact, having looked at the code again, then IMO she is wrong. There is no call to a file that could fail in such a way.

[NeutralizeR]

Originally Posted by Paul M

In fact, having looked at the code again, then IMO she is wrong. There is no call to a file that could fail in such a way.

Thank you for your reply.

I'll be asking for support in tufat forums then.

Regards

[fiber_cut]

I am not trying to Hijack his thread or take away credit so please do not take this that way. It doesnt say if it is for vBadvaned or not but if you are using vBadvanced and wouild like a similer module check out the one I did on www.bowlingballexchange.com
if you like it send me a PM and I will put up the module or maybe paul can incorporate it into his module.

If his works in vBadvanced please disreguard this post.