Official SigmaChat Integration

Product Info
Name: SigmaChat Official Integration Extension
Product ID: sc7400
Version: 1.0.4 (Version re-schemed)
Author: RaiderSoft (http://www.raidersoft.com/)
Last Modified: 17 Oct. 2005
Compatibility: vBulletin 3.5.0 Gold, 3.5.0 RC-2/3
Mirror: forums.raidersoft.com

Overview
This extension allows you to fully integrate a SigmaChat Platinum or Enterprise Java? Chat Room with your vBulletin 3.5.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 3.5.x
• SigmaChat Platinum, or Enterprise. Please note that SigmaChat Basic and SigmaChat Professional are no longer supported. You may register for a SigmaChat account at www.sigmachat.com.
• PHP with allow_url_fopen directive enabled in your php.ini file. This is required to download the Who's Chatting list from SigmaChat servers.

What's new?
This extension dramatically improves upon the previous release by making use of the vBulletin Database to store Who's Chatting list updates. Additionally, the Who's Chatting box at the bottom of the main forum page has been removed in favor of showing a (nearly) real-time count of users in your chat room directly from the main navbar. Both embedded and popup chat room options are provided to your user. The Who's Chatting list has been cleaned up. Two additional remote functions (Add Buddy and Forum Ignore) have been added as well.

Features

• Seamless integration between your vBulletin forum and SigmaChat
• Popup 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 SigmaChat user menu
• Uses the new vBulletin 3.5 XML product import architecture, making installation/uninstallation easier, requiring no modifications to the codebase.
• 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 RaiderSoft for this script provided you have a Platinum or Enterprise SigmaChat account. Read the included instructions for details. Please let us know if you have any problems installing this extension.

Updates
8/12/05 - vbsc7400_101.zip uploaded fixing the auto-login problem. To update from the previous release, simply download and extract the new archive and copy the 'chat.php' file to the root directory of your vBulletin forum. No other changes are required.
8/13/05 - vbsc7400_102.zip uploaded fixing minor issue with displaying users currently chatting. This may have effected all users using a custom table prefix.
10/5/05 - vbsc7400_103.zip uploaded fix minor issue relating to table prefixes. This script now been fully tested with VB 3.5.0 Gold.
10/17/05 - vbsc7400_104.zip uploaded. Users experiencing problems with table locking or the who's chatting list should download and install this update.

Screenshots are attached.

[Ryan McBain]

Originally Posted by Grim77

A new minor update was put online today correcting the automatic-login bug.

To update from the previous release, simply dowload and extract the new archive to your computer. After that, just copy (ftp) over the new 'chat.php' file to the root directory of your vBulletin forum. No other changes are required.

Thanks for the fix is does work. However what it does, is first it says invalid password, and then it jumps you into the chatroom. So first auto login looks like its not going to work, and then it works lol

[Marco van Herwaarden]

I just installed for a customer today, and experiencing the same login problems.The rest functions without any problem.

@Ryan
This happens also the second time (maybe some cache issue)?

[Elmer]

Installed, great hack

I had the auto login problem but after uploading chat.php the problem went away.

[NetRover]

Hi there, thanks for the update! login now works fine.

One more little problem.

My who's chatting loads a page that is blank apart from my forum header.

I've check php info and url fopen is on.

I don't even get my forum nav so it may not be a sigma issue.

any ideas welcome.

[Grim77]

Originally Posted by NetRover

Hi there, thanks for the update! login now works fine.
One more little problem.
My who's chatting loads a page that is blank apart from my forum header.
I've check php info and url fopen is on.
I don't even get my forum nav so it may not be a sigma issue.
any ideas welcome.

Sounds like an install issue. When you edited your templates (as described in the installation instructions) the chat pulldown menu should have been added to the navbar.

As for the Who's Chatting page, this relies upon templates that should have been added when you installed the XML file. Are you using RC-2? Any error messages during the XML installation?

[Grim77]

A new minor update was put online today correcting a bug in the Who's Chatting list effecting users who have set a table prefix during their vBulletin installation.

To update from the previous release, simply dowload and extract the new archive to your computer. After that, just copy (ftp) over the new 'chat_online.php' file to the root directory of your vBulletin forum. No other changes are required.

Thanks to rogerl for noticing this bug.

[Ryan McBain]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

I just installed for a customer today, and experiencing the same login problems.The rest functions without any problem.

@Ryan
This happens also the second time (maybe some cache issue)?

Nah its not that I checked. It first says invalid and then sends you to the chat room. It works, but first it says that it doesnt.

[NetRover]

Originally Posted by Grim77

Sounds like an install issue. When you edited your templates (as described in the installation instructions) the chat pulldown menu should have been added to the navbar.

As for the Who's Chatting page, this relies upon templates that should have been added when you installed the XML file. Are you using RC-2? Any error messages during the XML installation?

Hi Chris, thanks for replying.

After my members said it was missing I noticed is was getting placed way down the page. If I remove my forum header and just have my forum nav it shows fine. I have therefore left off my header, I'm on RC2 but the old 3.0.7 version worked with the header though.

not to worry, something i've done i'll have to live with

[Craigr]

Worked great.

Cheers.

[Sleepyk]

You have to pay for this chat though so why get it?