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!

[Lazorbeam]

Not working on 4.1.4. Here's what I see on the footer:



Installed on another forum and it worked right out of the box (4.1.7).

[venom2124]

Looks like an interesting mod, might have to check it out later.

[PWillard]

its not compatible with internet explorer only on firefox..

[Lazorbeam]

As I mentioned above I had this mod installed on a 4.1.7 forum. Had ONE user (me) online for testing purposes and this mod was eating up 15% of my CPU load at the time. Why?

The script was update_ideachat_stream.php or something like that. I had it set to a 3s refresh.

[Niak_Judge]

Originally Posted by prophetmuhammad

running 4.1.7 here.... once activated, it runs WAY too slow to the point that the pages time out. uninstalled until fix

Same here... :c

[slammz]

CometChat is better

[Wild Bronco]

I have this setup on my site but cant see it. Install did not give me errors, I have added the usergroup permissions for admin adn users. I tried the default theme it's not there

Any ideas?

[Wild Bronco]

I see it in Chrome not in my Opera browser. It feels slow.. But I like the look. I use vb 4.1.8

[StonePilot]

I'm gonna have to check this out! :-)

[Wild Bronco]

Sorry I was wrong It works in IE and Opera...

It won't work with my lang ISO-8859-1 Board is sett to use ISO-8859-1

Characters like ? ? ? ? ? are not shown only garble text.