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!

[gamersplatoon]

4.1.8
Forum Browsing slowed down to 100% then crashes with a database error.

Definitely uninstalled.

[TheSupportForum]

agreed ^

this does not work on v4.1.9

i had to disable plugins and remove this mod properly
Definitely uninstalled.

[Datenpapst]

Well I had an earlier version installed, but because of bugs I deinstalled it. Now i installed 1.3 and all the settings are showing up and all usergroups are set right, but the bar isnt showing up.

[Schoelle]

I've tried this. It did not kill the server, but the CPU went way up with only 2 users testing.
I'm staying with cometchat although it's also not perfect.

[onealien]

yeah i checked it out too...didnt show up after installing as instructed and usergroup adjustment...uninstalled and will stick with ArrowChat...been working great for us!

[zairafusco]

Originally Posted by Geiri

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.

it's interesting because for me it didn'twork with ie, how did you fix it?

@ Ideal Web Tech: i see that even on the demo site your chat is not working with IE (8), exactly like on my vb site.. (basically it shos only the bottom row of everything.. menu tabs.. chatbox...) so there is any hope you will fix it for IE?

thank you

[GhostHunter2010]

marked as install im gonna test it very soon looks great mod

[GhostHunter2010]

not working on vb 4.1.9 with costum style unistalled

[nerowolfe]

Not working in 4.10.0

[Ideal Web Tech]

We are aware of the bugs and will be resuming normal bug fixing status soon now that we are done moving our offices. We are also looking at some more advanced methods to fix some of the more in depth minor bugs that have been around for a bit.

Also just a note for now please avoid this mod if using iis7 as your webserver as we have identified an issue with iis7 that prevents it from operating normally. We will release more information on iis7 when we have it available.

Also I feel we must stress that this mod was designed for dedicated server as we have been seeing a lot of people on shared hosting trying it and complaining about the performance when that was never really the target audience.

We are looking into building a hosted version of the chat to start offering as well but it may be a while before we have that put together as their is quite a bit of work required to restructure the code to function as needed.

Please be patient as we work on everything as the advanced code in this modification makes most the current bugs somewhat in depth to isolate and fix.

Also anybody who is having issues with the script is encouraged to open a support ticket to get the best possible support, as quite a few of the issues being complained about are issues related to other addons/server issues, and its not feasible to try and offer one on one support in a public thread since typically we will need login information to take a look around and isolate the issue.