Chat Modifications - Members who are chatting in Flashchat 5 or 6

This modification is no longer available or supported.

Note: I no longer use Flashchat, and development and support of it at Tufat appears to have died in 2010.

This is a simple display of who is currently chatting in FlashChat - on the forum homepage display.

Note: This is compatible with Flashchat 5.0.x only, it will not work with Flashchat 4.

* Flashchat 5 is no longer available - this should work with Flashchat 6, but this is not a supported option *

The main features are ;

1. It displays the list on Forum Home with the "Users online" display.
2. The list view is collapsable, so you see just the number.
3. Users who should display as coloured or bold etc are displayed correctly (based on the display usergroup)
4. If you 'hover' over a username it will show the room they are chatting in and their status (away etc).
5. If the chat is empty, a simple "no one is chatting" message is displayed.
6. The option to record and display the Most Ever chatters can be enabled.
7. The ability to turn it on/off is in the ACP Options.
8. The ability to allow only certain usergroups to view the list is an ACP option (include or exclude groups).
9. The location of the Flashchat folder is an ACP option

(Options are located in vBulletin Options > Who Is Using Flashchat).

Unzip the XML and import into vB using the ACP Product Manager.


Further Notes:

This hack cannot display any bots in the chat, due to the strange way that Flashchat stores this information.

I have no connection with the Flashchat product - if you have questions about Flashchat functionality then their forums are located here.

Template Hook

Please note that this modification uses the following template hook in the FORUMHOME template ;

forumhome_wgo_pos2

This must be present in any customised template/style you are using, otherwise this modification will not display.


History:

v3.8.001 : First release for vb 3.8.x
v3.8.002 : Fix Most Ever Display Bug.

[Paul M]

There is nothing I can tell you - that query is not part of this modification.

[K2_02]

Is there any way to make this mod NOT display usergroups that are set to Spy Mode? Kinda blows the cover if they can see that you're in the chatroom and then join and can't see you.

[Paul M]

No, there is no such facility.

[Scubado]

Thanx Paul for this Add On, works well.

I've few questions:

1) the usergroups moderators and admin are invisible on our board and have their own nonpublic chatroom. So they are invisible on FlashChat aswell. But in the wic-display they appear as visible chatusers. Can the script for modifation this issue be found in the vB 'active user' template? So they will not be displayed in wic.
Somewhat like the previous question about the spy-usergroup, probably it will work for this group asswell.

2) The fc5 active users display shows the rooms and number of users. I miss this in wic.
i.e. in: /forum/chat/info.php . Is it possible to show the rooms in the vB wic display?

[goxy63]

1.
How to change path to a small gif, it points to "whos_online.gif" and if that is changed all other statistics have same one which is not that good ?

2.Any chance to place this mod within VBA module for my homepage?

Thanks

ps
Placed same question at Mosh "who is chatting addon" thread
will notify in other thread if I got answer here, and vice versa
---------- Post added at 14.08.2009 ---------- Previous post was at 13.08.2009 ----------
I was thinking that Paul is quickest in these waters, but Mosh this time was...
My questions answered here

[Deacon Frost]

Guys,

I have installed this addon to my VB 3.8 and it is basically working. However it won't display the number of active chatters correct. The code in the phrases is

Members currently using Flashchat: {1}

but the result shown on my website is

Members currently using Flashchat: %1$s 0

any hints?

[Zaki Shafqat]

Installed and everything seems to be working fine but its showing the wrong date

The most chatters online in one day was 0, 01-01-1970.
No one is currently using the chat.

[Paul M]

The date will not update until someone logs in.

[Zaki Shafqat]

Originally Posted by Paul M

The date will not update until someone logs in.

Yeah i also noticed when i entered in the chat room it said TODAY instead of 1970 so hopefully it will count a newer date after some days no body go to the chat room

Thanks i was a great plugin indeed

[Mr_Devlin]

Will there be a way to show "who's chatting" for a default installation of flashchat?
For example: I'd installed FlashChat as standalone "default CMS", because for some reasons board members and external Users should be able to use the chat. This installation uses its own fc-tables (but in same database of the vb-SQL) and the fc-folder is located in server root, NOT in forum root. So we have two user tables: fcusers und vbusers and two folders: chat and forum
Now I need a display on forumhome to show users they are in currently the chat.
Is this possible to realize and if yes, how to?

Any help would be appreciated.