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!

[revmitchell]

Anytime I try to set usergroup setting I get a database error. I checked to see that there were no conflicts with other products

[belowthebelt]

Installed and paid for the version that includes support, posted support ticket about chat jumping around; no answer for 12 days about fixing the product; I asked for a refund because the product does not work as advertised; no refunds possible for broken software though terms and service ( Understandable & Fair ) however if you are considering paying for this software I would ask that you think again.

It's nothing but trouble.

[baghdad4ever]

hi

it is not support arabic

[Breakthecycle2]

I have failed files uploaded through FTP and now this:

Warning: require([path]/iwt/shared/includes/license_api.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/adminfunctions_plugin.php(931) : eval()'d code on line 1

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/droidtec/public_html/iwt/shared/includes/license_api.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/droidtec/public_html/includes/adminfunctions_plugin.php(931) : eva

[dog199200]

has anyone figured out how to get this to work outside of a vB environment yet? I have my own custom build website and i can't get this to work on the website, just the forum and I need it to run on both

[bakabanana]

worked fine on 4.1.8~

[scottct1]

This looks great, but I am wondering if there is any kind of logging? I wouldn't want to see some of our members use this for illegal activity.

[emgage]

Great addon. How can i get the chat to also appear on my cms homepage? not just the /forum.php page. I am using publishing suite. Thank you

[mackers8923]

I'd be very up to using this if it was available on the CMS page also..

[gmhoward]

Originally Posted by Niak_Judge

Same here... :c

Same here, 4.1.8. When I turn on this mod the server crawls within a few minutes. The load shows no different in cpanel, but the site gets very very slow. As soon as I turn the mod off, the site is fast again right away.