Chat Modifications - Members who are chatting in Flashchat 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.

vBulletin 4.x Version

** This is not compatible with vBulletin 4.0.7 or Less **

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

Note: This modification is for Flashchat 6, it will not work with Flashchat 4, and may not work with Flashchat 5.

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).

Added in v4.0.2
9. The list view can be set to be always collapsed on page load.
10. The mod will try and detect if Flashchat is installed, and display an error if not.
(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.


Support

This modification is not supported.


This has been updated for style changes introduced in vBulletin 4.0.8. It will probably look ok in older versions, but will not be perfect.


History:

v4.0.1 : 25-Dec-2009 : Initial release for vb 4.0.0 Gold.
v4.0.2 : 14-Jan-2010 : Flashchat detection and always collapsed option added.
v4.0.3 : 26-Jan-2010 : Various updates.
v4.0.4 : 18-Feb-2010 : Installer update.
v4.0.5 : 29-May-2010 : Fix error in upgrade section of install code.
v4.0.6 : 22-Oct-2010 : Fixed for WGO style changes in vB 4.0.8.
v4.0.7 : 06-Nov-2010 : Install code updated.

v4.1.0 : 04-Dec-2010 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.

[derandechser]

Originally Posted by basilrath

Just as a little information the display of "who is chatting" in the chat room in the whats on section can be re-worked to display on the forumhome - top right / left etc.

The reason i have done this was the simple fact it seemed the members (lazy as ever) will not scroll or look at full sites pages, which with location of the whats on being low down as default.

I reworked it to the way it is done in the attached picture and with the flashing icon - and yes people are using the Chat area more frequently and have commented on the fact they can see it more easily. This is just to let people know it can be done.

it can be seen here providing the chatroom is being used........ http://www.tabletennistalk.co.uk/forum/forum.php

This is absolutely, what i am looking for! How did you manage that??
Greets peter
btw: Thank you Paul for this Addon

[basilrath]

Hi Peter pm me and ill sort the code out ...........

[beatyourtruck]

Awesome. Works and looks great! 8) Thanks Paul!

[TazDevilLooney]

Feature Request
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Hi paul, would there be anyway of displaying the guest names from chat in your forum hack.
I added a .gif icon to the hack from here for some fun, which still works when a guest is in the room.
Hower there is no name displayed but the icon works to say people are there.
Maybe even just a counter would suffice.

Grate mod by the way and keep up the good work

Taz

[Paul M]

Guest names ?

[TazDevilLooney]

Yes, I'm running flash chat 6.0.8 but the guest names don't apear in mod, the registed users do but not guests.

This is using the flash intergration of course. I'm using flashchat to accept guests and registed users.








Thankyou Taz

[Paul M]

Integration prevents guests by definition, so you cannot be using it.

[Paul M]

Fixed for vb 4.0.8 WGO style changes in latest release.

[Hippy]

thanks

[basilrath]

The mod can easily be changed now to reflect the users in chatroom as shown in the image below.................... tends to make it more "member prominant" with flashing icon too



Let me know if you would like this :up:

you can use the login - username: mail-test
password: 123