Integration with vBulletin - FlashChat - Who is in the chat.

This modification is no longer available or supported.

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

The main features of Version 4.xx are basically the same as previous versions ;

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 hack is now phrased.
7. The ability to turn it on/off is in the ACP Forum Home Options.
8. The ability to allow only certain usergroups to view the list is an ACP option.
9. The location of the flashchat folder is now an ACP option (vBulletin Options > Forums Home Page Options).

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

To upgrade from version 4.10 onwards, you need to re-import the product with the overwrite option set to yes. To upgrade from version 4.02 to version 4.10 onwards, you need to uninstall the product and remove the template code in FORUMHOME - then upload the new product. To upgrade from version 3.xx to version 4.xx you need to delete the existing plugin and remove the template code in FORUMHOME - then upload the new product.

* An add-on to display a 'Most ever chatters' count is available here.


Note: This hack cannot display any bots in the chat, due to the strange way that flashchat stores this information. Please also note that I am not Tufat.com or anything to do with the Flashchat product - if you have questions about Flashchat in general, their forums are here.


History:

v4.10 : Removed the need to edit the FORUMHOME template.
v4.11 : Hyperlinked display icon to chat page. Added vb number formatting to count.
v4.12 : Added ALT tag to above hyperlink.
v4.13 : Updated ACP view permission option to take into account secondary groups.
v4.14 : Added 'nofollow' attribute to listed usernames.
v4.15 : Restricted list based on flashchat autologout parameter, to get round the issue of connections not being cleaned up.
v4.16 : Minor changes, no update necessary.
v4.17 : Added members status to hover information.
v4.18 : Re-wrote status code to take account of custom status definitions.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by nealparry

Paul,

how long should the botloader script take, been running for about an hour and it's only half way along the bar.....

Sorry, I have no idea - I have never installed the bots as I have no use for them. I doubt a script will run sucessfully for an hour - doesn't php timeout after a while ?

[Neal-UK]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Sorry, I have no idea - I have never installed the bots as I have no use for them. I doubt a script will run sucessfully for an hour - doesn't php timeout after a while ?

i thought so. Kept going though but something must have gone wrong. Stopped in now and skipped it, installed fine and running well.

[Neal-UK]

Originally Posted by nealparry

i thought so. Kept going though but something must have gone wrong. Stopped in now and skipped it, installed fine and running well.

How can I edit the usergroup permission? Need to let my donaters get in quick ;-(

[Paul M]

Edit the relevant section in the CMS file - it's easy to spot.

[Neal-UK]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Edit the relevant section in the CMS file - it's easy to spot.

ok cheers

[Paul M]

BTW - you do realise this is the "who is in the chat" thread, not the integration thread

[Neal-UK]

Originally Posted by Paul M

BTW - you do realise this is the "who is in the chat" thread, not the integration thread

i didn't see one for vb3.5.0. so sorry about that, mods please can you remove my posts.

[EasyTarget]

nice hack/s

*warning, I don't know coding*
when I tried to import the .xml I get a vb error message saying invalid file specified.
I tried to do it both from my computer and from ftp to the includes/xml folder and got the same message.

I then opened the the add new plugin choice and put the information in there that I found in the .xml file, though it took a few times because I kept including too much of the information I guess. Like it only worked after I took off this stuff

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> 
- <plugins>
- <plugin active="1">
  <title>Members in Flashchat</title> 
  <hookname>forumhome_start</hookname> 
- <phpcode>
- <![CDATA[ 

  ]]> 
  </phpcode>
  </plugin>
  </plugins>

I'm just posting this in case this is actually the only way to add it so that maybe you'd update the instructions so that step 3 isn't just:

Step 3.

Install the plugin using the supplied XML file.

but actually goes through and tells us newbies what to do

[Paul M]

Sorry, but it's not my job to teach people how to install plugins - my hacks will assume you either already know, or are capable of finding out. Check out the forums "how to" section - esp this thread.

[EasyTarget]

well maybe a link to that thread in the install would be nice.

I've installed several other plugins/hacks and I figured uploading the xml via plugin system would work. Since it seems there's several ways to do it why not specify which?

and I never said it was your job or responsibility to do it, I was just making a suggestion which I figured would help other people who had a code deficiency like myself.

anyways thanks for the hack.

*edit*
well according to that thread you linked to the way I first tried it (upload from pc/ftp to site) was the correct way, and that's the way that failed for me giving me the 'invalid file specified error'.