Integration with vBulletin - Official AddonChat Integration

Product Info
Name: Official AddonChat Integration Add-On
Product ID: sc7400
Version: 1.0.4
Author: AddonInteractive (http://www.addoninteractive.com/)
Last Modified: 15 Nov. 2006
Compatibility: vBulletin 3.6.x
Download: Downlod Now

Overview
This extension allows you to fully integrate a AddonChat Professional PLUS, Enterprise Java?, or Professional (with Remote Authentication Module) edition Chat Room with your vBulletin 3.6.x forum system, including the ability to authenticate access via your vBulletin forum system, and provide a "Who's Chatting" page list showing who is currently logged into your chat room.

Requirements

• vBulletin 3.6.x
• AddonChat Professional (with Remote Auth. Module), Professional PLUS or Enterprise. Please note that free AddonChat editions are not supported. You may register for an AddonChat account at www.addonchat.com.
• PHP with allow_url_fopen directive enabled in your php.ini file. This is required to download the Who's Chatting list from AddonChat servers.

Features

• Seamless integration between your vBulletin forum and AddonChat
• Pop-up and Embedded Chat room link options
• Automatic (one 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
• Remote authentication allows you to choose which vBulletin user groups are allowed chat room administrative privileges
• Remote functions system allows you to tie in vBulletin forum functions into the AddonChat user list
• Uses the vBulletin XML product import architecture, making installation/un-installation easier, requiring no modifications to the code base.
• Improves over previous versions by storing Who's Chatting list within it's own MySQL database table

Installation
Installaion will require between 10 and 15 minutes of your time. Download the supplied ZIP file, and extract it on your personal computer. Open the README.html in your web browser file for full installation instructions. No PHP code modifications are required as this script makes use of the new vBulletin XML Product system.

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. AddonInteractive does not provide support through this forum.

Screenshots are attached.

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[mutus123]

Question please.

The chat on my vBulletin 3.6x stopped working after the rebranding of the product from sigma to addon.

I tried to tweak a few config settings at the suggestion of members here but no joy.

Do I need to un-install the sigmachat plug-in first... and then install this plugin?

or is this plugin supposed to be run as an upgrade to the sigma chat plugin,

Thanks a lot for your time.

[Grim77]

Originally Posted by mutus123

Question please.

The chat on my vBulletin 3.6x stopped working after the rebranding of the product from sigma to addon.

I tried to tweak a few config settings at the suggestion of members here but no joy.

Do I need to un-install the sigmachat plug-in first... and then install this plugin?

or is this plugin supposed to be run as an upgrade to the sigma chat plugin,

Thanks a lot for your time.

If you updated your vBulletin templates when you updated to vBulletin 3.6, then yes, you'll need to re-install the AddonChat plugin. I would recommend un-installing the previous SigmaChat plugin before installing.

This Plugin (AddonChat) is complete, and does not require any previous AddonChat/SigmaChat plugins.

[fixer]

thank u a lot

But
the moderators with english nicknames have no problem at all while those with arabic names log as normal user (not moderator)

the chat does not detect any moderator with arabic nickname as moderator

How to fix that

[Stavs16]

definetly not paying $80+ on this. even thought it has a very nice interface, its clearly not worth it in my opinion. Rather use vbshout instead... its FREE

[Grim77]

We've ran into this before with Arabic sites. Look at your chat_auth.php (I think that is the name -- check the other php files in the mod too) -- There should be some comments regarding UTF-8 characters in there. You may need to uncomment a few lines in the code to get things working.

Since v8.0, AddonChat changed to the UTF-8/Unicode standard which is not fully compatible with how vBulletin stores non-English characters; I believe they use HTML character encodings, so a translation needs to be done in the authentication mechanism.

Originally Posted by fixer

thank u a lot

But
the moderators with english nicknames have no problem at all while those with arabic names log as normal user (not moderator)

the chat does not detect any moderator with arabic nickname as moderator

How to fix that

[carsafety]

Very nice add-on. Relatively simple installation and I'm barely more than a script/php novice.

I tried Flashchat. Very nice software, but it lagged down a lot even with less than 10 users. Plus, the sporadic disconnects and lack of a moderated event feature or gag/squelch/silence feature were also issues.

I'm evaluating AddonChat now, but based on user feedback so far, it's much faster and better overall, though some miss the styles, skins and sounds of FlashChat. The Vbulletin integration is also nice and seamless so far. I suspect I will be purchasing a license once the trial ends.

My only complaint so far is that the moderated event feature is only available on the Enterprise version and not even as a plug-in/module for other versions. A 25 user limit may be fine right now, but the prices go way up after that and it may be beyond the reach of our non-profit organization if the chat feature becomes more popular. As it is, I intend to restrict it to certain usergroups because I suspect that allowing general registered user access and guests would be well above 50 users at peak times.

Maybe someday soon, Flashchat or another chat script will release a moderated event feature and drive down prices.

[yuriy]

hey Addonchat,
I have my forum(vB) and I am a top admin there usergroup #6, well lets say my username on my forum and im admin is
username: Tom
password: zoK1

and when I login to addonchat cpanel I add an admin(super admin)
username: Tom
password: zoK1

and when I click on enter chat on my forum I see the chat loading then it brings me to:
Tom
Invalid Username or Password

what am I doing wrong? I just payed $80 for this and I can't get myself an admin, Please help! Thanks!

[KURTZ]

Originally Posted by bang

add IRC support to this awesome chat and I'll buy the most expensive version the moment it's released. otherwise it's useless for vast majority of forum owners.

absolutely agree

[carsafety]

I'd submit a support ticket since they said they do not provide support through this forum in the original post.

If you are using their RA module for forum integration, you need to setup the usergroups for admin access in the global config file (step 3 in the readme for this script). You shouldn't need to add users in the addonchat panel at all. Then whenever a forum admin logs in through the forums or directly, they should automatically get chat room admin, too. This works on mine, so definitely do a support ticket if yours doesn't. If you spent $80, it looks like that is the Professional version. I think you need to spend another $25 for the Remote Authentication module to use this script with that version as per requirements in the first post.

If you haven't done the integration with this script, I'm not sure how it works, sorry.

[yuriy]

This is working fine now the HTTP authentication error was on the AddonChats side. Thanks Chris for the big help!