Chat Hack

First of all, let me thank all who have worked on the various hacks already. The work you all do is tremendous. Here is my suggestion for a hack that I think would be quite useful.

It's a real time chat hack. Now I know there are plenty of scripts out there that let you set up chat rooms, but I'm talking about one integrated into vBulletin. I envision a chat system where the room is always open to registered users. The column of users would be listed somewhere on the page, and double clicking a user would bring up their profile. I have no idea how difficult this would be to create, or what kind of strain would be put on the server, but if it could be done I think it would be a tremendous addition.

What do you guys think,
Cameron

OK, I'll post it the day I get back from vacation (probably Sat night/Sun morning).

[webhost]

Tom your board looks great and works great. thanks for the phpmychat hack. I'll be trying it soon thanks again

Joey

my forum at http://forums.realwebhost.net

[amsch]

I would like to have the PHPchat with the intergration of the boards. Now I do have a suggestion. I know many sites have a chat schedule all set up. What I was thinking is having a place like the birthdays, have it say todays Chats are.. and list the topic with the time and when they click it , it opens the chat room. One thing it would do is be a reminder to those who want to attend, also those who are not always chatters would see it, then the chats are forced to sign-up on the boards. I hope I made sense?

Am

Hi Tom,

i have tried to integrate your phpmychat Hack in my Board. But it doesnt work.

at witch point i have to insert your hack in the index.php?


daivnbe

Thanks TOM.

I got it by myself

daivnbe

[GraphicW]

Per the instructions of a previous chat hack on here, I have hacked a jIRC into my forums. I have already tried PHPMyChat and unfortunately, it can get painfully slow once you have about 10 people in the chat. You can also still talk behind members' or admins' back without them seeing, you simple set MyPHPChat to delete the messages sooner rather than leaving it for the default time. You can view the jIRC hack in place on my board. No registration is required, URL is in the Sig.

I have been trying to integrate phpmychat with vb and not having any luck. I have been asking for help, hoping that someone could give me step by step instructions to accomplish this. Can someone PLEASE help me?

GraphicW...I really like how you have your chat application integrated into your VB forums. I was wondering if you could post your hack so that we may take a look at how you did it with jIRC.

[GraphicW]

Actually, the "hack" I used for my chat is not really a hack. It's nothing more than a template. It is already documented here on Vbulletin. I don't remember the URL to the thread, but it is easy to find by typing JIRC into the search function here at VB.

[bitbender]

OK, I read thru all this, and followed the procedures carefully.

From some reason, the chat option doesnt appear on my index.php in vbulletin.

Was I supposed to define the templates (chatloggedin, chatloggedout) in a specific template, or create them as custom templates?

It appears that index.php chat code hack is attempting to call these chatlogged.. methods, so obviously the placement of the code snippet in the vbulletin index.php is important.

Can some help me out and tell me where ??

Im still learning this, so please be gentle with me....