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]

Well I just imported it okay. Are you sure you are using "Download / Upload Plugins" and not "Manage Products" - as the latter will give an invalid file error.

[EasyTarget]

yeah, I used the manage products -> add/import product section
when I got the error.

did it this time in the download/upload section and it went smoothly, thanks.
(it was working before but I wanted to make sure to do it properly so I could learn for the future)

thanks.

and just for the sake of learning, what are the different sections of the plugin manager for?

[hotrod1]

Great hack, thanks a bunch!

[b6gm6n]

Hi, i had this hack working for a while, then i used the latest version, installed ok, but now on my forum home i always see 1 person chatting but no names to click... weird, i'll uninstall and reinstall.... i did use the template data from the latest version also... is there anything i could have done to create this? as i say it was working before, i'm using RC2

-b6

[southernlady]

I've installed it but when the plugin is active, this is what I get on my forum home page:

Warning: Unknown(./chat/inc/config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /index.php(63) : eval()'d code on line 92

Fatal error: (null)(): Failed opening required './chat/inc/config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in home/southern/mysouthernlady.com/forum/index.php(63) : eval()'d code on line 92

I'm not giving my entire path due to security reasons. Flashchat itself is working beautifully. Liz

[Sleepyk]

is this chat too or just the little add-on?

[TTG]

Originally Posted by Roxie

This displays users that aren't in the chat. Don't know if I screwed up somewhere. LOL...but the users it lists aren't the ones in chat.

Have same problem ..

[JirQUEST]

i think the users didnt log out properly? as in, they were inside b4, but they closed the window without clicking that red circle at the right hand corner.

[RMS-Chef]

Originally Posted by TTG

Have same problem ..

I had this problem with previous versions of this. People with popup blockers turned on for your site might have logout of chat issues. Sometimes they block the popup that logs you out of chat when they close it.

[Paul M]

Just to clarify, as per this explanation months ago ;

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=585037

This is not a hack problem, it is a flashchat issue. This hack can only use the information supplied to it by flashchat.