Chat Modifications - Ideal Chat Lite (facebook style bottom chat/chatroom bar) v1.3.0

This modification adds a bottom bar chat system to your board.

Features

• Friend?s Online List (mutal or all friends)
• Integration with vBulletin's ignore system so users can block messages from people they want
• General Chat Room
• User-to-User Chat
  • Chat with friends
• Support for infinite number of open chats
• Automatic Updating of chat messages
• New message indicators
  • Indicator on Chat Tab for new messages
  • A sound plays for new messages
  • Page title flashes for new messages
  • Indicator for new messages on tabs out of view
• Multiple window support
  • Supports users having your site open in multiple windows/tabs
  • Changes in one window automatically apply to other windows
• Automatically disables chat bar for mobile browsers
  • Help save bandwidth for your mobile users

Settings

• Admin Settings
  • Chat online
  • Ban individual users from chat
  • Update stream time limit
  • Update stream delay
  • Settings & Chat Room link Positions
    • Change where the links show at, or hide them all-together
• Usergroup Settings
  • Can use chat
  • Can use chat room
• User Settings
  • Hide Chat bar
  • New message notification method

Change Log
For a full list of changes, please visit: http://community.idealwebtech.com/in...ngelog&file=15

Installation/Upgrade
See included readme file.

Demo
You can see a demo here (You can can register a new account, or use the Login, "Ideal Chat Demo", and password, "chatdemo") This demo is of the pro version which can be found here!

Support
This modification is released for free, and as such we don't officially support it; however, as time permits we will try to offer support on it. We will NOT be monitoring this thread on a daily basis, your best bet for a fast reply would be to go post here.

Common Issues/Topics
Chat Bar Don't Show Up?
Have you configured the usergroup settings? This is the most common issue we see, and 99% of the time it is due to usergroup settings not being configured properly. So if your bar is not showing up, please verify your usergroup settings before reporting it as an issue.

Messages Don't Show Up?
We are aware of an issue causing messages to not show up for some people, and are looking into fixes.

Modification Has Conflict With Another Product
There is always a chance that two products will conflict with each other! We are aware of some, but please feel free to tell us about any products you find to conflict via our Bug Tracker on our site.

Chat Doesn't Support Certain Characters
The chat can only support the characters your board itself can support! If you would like to support certain characters, you must have your board using a charset that supports them. We have only ever once noticed a chat that didn't support every character the board did, and we are looking in it.

Chat Kills My Server
We have tested the chat extensively for server friendliness, and have found it to be very gentle on servers. We have seen the script run with hundreds of active users without putting hardly any load on the server. However, an improperly configured server may result in any reverse-AJAX/push-AJAX/Comet based chat script killing the server. If you find that your server slows down after installation, you may want to talk with your host about raising your MySQL and Apache Max Connection Limits to a more appropriate amount!

[tdkmatt]

Can you confirm where the premissions should be?

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by tdkmatt

Can you confirm where the premissions should be?

The permissions should be in the usergroup manager. And then there are a few general settings in the settings manager.

[tdkmatt]

Yea, nothing Help!

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by tdkmatt

Yea, nothing Help!

Sure thing, please check your PMs.

[danswano]

Hello, awesome mod indeed,.

any idea why the friends list box not floating when i scroll to the top, it's always stuck at the bottom and not floating.

Thanks.

[Jimandbob]

Originally Posted by Ideal Web Tech

We have been running it on one of our live sites during almost the entire development phase, and we couldn't notice our site slowing any. We also monitored our server load regularly, and found it to not really even touch the server.

For a short time during the development, there was a bug that kept the connections from closing correctly, and at one point we had over a 100 copies running, and we didn't even notice for a while because our server load was so low, and our site was still loading normally. (Don't worry though, we fixed that bug!)

As for a paid version, you can find the pro version on our website in our store.



What about Brian?

I only know Tim !!!

[cavyspirit]

I can't find a demo to look at. Don't want to register for a gamer site.

Definitely in the market for a good chat solution.

I need public and private chat rooms and chat logs that can be archived and monitored.

Can't quite tell from the marketing info if that's available or coming. Looking forward to learning more!

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by cavyspirit

I can't find a demo to look at. Don't want to register for a gamer site.

Definitely in the market for a good chat solution.

I need public and private chat rooms and chat logs that can be archived and monitored.

Can't quite tell from the marketing info if that's available or coming. Looking forward to learning more!

I released demo account information for our gaming site so you can see it in action. The chatroom functionality will be added over the next 3-4 days along with tons of other features.

[danswano]

Hello, awesome mod indeed,.

any idea why the friends list box not floating when i scroll to the top, it's always stuck at the bottom and not floating.

Thanks.

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by danswano

Hello, awesome mod indeed,.

any idea why the friends list box not floating when i scroll to the top, it's always stuck at the bottom and not floating.

Thanks.

The friends box is supposed to be anchored to the bottom of the page.