Chat Modifications - VB Messenger Desktop Application for vBulletin forums

vBulletin Messenger v1.4.0

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What It Does:

With VBM your members can login to the messenger with thier membership details , add other members to thier contact list (for VB 3.7 contacts are the friends in the friend list) , communicate with each other with smilies , fonts , colors ... , also they will be notified about newest forum posts and threads and view "last 10 posts" in the forum in an easy and fast way with a "Read More" button that will open the thread/post when clicked .
VBM has a public chat room , that can be accessed by all members that use the messenger .
Your members will know about the newest posts in the forum and will open the new post in a new browser window once they click the notification , which means a more active forum members and a better moderation .

Features:

- VBM is easy to install and manage .
- VBM Means less resources required from your website server (MySQL Queries > CPU , Bandwidth) .
- VBM Means a more living forum , and a better moderation .

- It is easy to install and manage your VBulletin Messenger system .
- Fully Supported
- VBM takes less queries from DATABASE and takes less resources/bandwidth because it dosen't have to load the pictures/CSS/backgrounds or any other files from your server , it only loads a small list of online/offline contacts with information about last 10 posts and threads in the forum , which takes about 10-15 queries and max of 5kb-15kb transfere which is less a 1000-10000 times from only opening the forum home page .

Installation:

1 - Download the Server Side Script and Open the file "include.php" and edit the database details to match these of your forum config.php entries

2 - Upload all the PHP files in the "vbmsngr" directory in the root directory of your website "/public_html/" (You may need to create the "/public_html/vbmsngr" folder) .

3 - Tell your members and/or moderators about The Messenger Installation Pack which is the messenger desktop software
Every one who installs this software and have a membership in your forum can chat to each other .

To login to the messenger use your user name then the "@" sign then your forum URL . example : me@myforum.com , enter your password and you're in !!!
You can make a subdomain and add the Server Side Script in it , but then no one can login to the messenger unless they know the subdomain address .

Notes:
- Messenger accepts only usernames and passwords in english chars! ( other languages support coming soon! )
- There will not be any options of editing the [Sitename] Messenger / theme / skin / removing the @domain.com login method unless in custom versions , please refer to the website .

Download Messenger Installation File Here ( it was big for attachment )

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[Saint_I_Am]

Mine just says

Loading Contacts, Please Wait....

???

[veenuisthebest]

alright.. i must say great work by you, but i think you released it too early coz a lot of work needs to be done i think.

Besides the fact that it did not run for me, I don't know how, but it removed iertutil.dll from my PC and started spitting out DLL not found errors.

I uninstalled VBM, reinstalled Yahoo, ran system file checker but nothing helped. I even downloaded iertutil.dll but didn't work as there occured a version mismatch.

Atlast, I finally decided to reinstall windows but i thought of asking once for that dll from my friend. And that solved the problem, as I got the right version iertutil.dll

I hope the updated version would be much more stable. Waiting for it. thanks !

[jambo_1969]

Installed perfectly - everyone opens up okay except for my avatar and the last ten post....

[Artes_Marciales]

Nice idea!! : )
Thanks!

[Amman-DJ.CoM]

Originally Posted by Forum Lover

I am getting this error.

Where to get that .dll and where to put?

This dll file is not a part of the messenger , please tell me what OS you are using , i mean windows xp / vista ? , i will check this file

[Amman-DJ.CoM]

Originally Posted by s810car

I would like to find out what that costs for these options are, and I'll definitely think about it

That's what I thought about the queries as well, but for some reason, it wouldn't create the tables in my database until I did that, and I'm on Apache 2.2.8 with MySQL 5 so I don't know why that fixed it, maybe just a quirk

check the website in the exe file before logging in

[Amman-DJ.CoM]

Originally Posted by veenuisthebest

see.. same error i was talking about.

I wish i could have this error on one of the 5 PCs at my home so i can fix it , yet i did not get it , please upload the right version of the dll here , or give me a link for it .

and thank you for the report !!!

[scots69]

I type in my name and password and they are the correct name and password, and it says 'wrong name or password' and then there is a run-time error '424' ....

Could you help me here ?

[Amman-DJ.CoM]

Originally Posted by charlee

Same here. My forums are installed in mysite.com/forum, not in the root folder...
The messenger can login, but it cannot load any info from the forums. When I click "Read More" or "Go to Forum", it takes me to the root. Is there a way we can get this to work? It would be really cool to have this on our forums.

will be fixed , for now please try creating a new subdomain named "FORUM" and put the "vbmsngr" folder to "public_html/forum" and login using @forum.site.com

i will fix it asap , thanks for the feedback

[jambo_1969]

Whilst this mod is potentially awesome, the coder really needs to check his php files better

picture.php has a src link to his own website's images....

Easily fixed, but should be done prior to launch