jIRC Chat Integration

This hack is very similar to other hacks already released, I know there are a few others out there - I made this for myself so thought I would release it just incase anyone else found it useful. This hack takes into consideration Who's On-line, is controlled by one template, and has less files to upload than a few other chat hacks. All the files you need to run IRC chat from your vBulletin are included in this distribution. This hack is configured to work with HashNet IRC [www.hashnet.org]. HashNet let's you register your username's as well as your channels, protecting it from any misuse. All the information you need for such processes can be found on the HashNet site. If you wish to use a different IRC server, or a channel name other than that of your vBulletin title, edit the '<para name' tags in your chat template [which you'll add in Step 2] of installation...

This distribution includes jIRC version 2.6.0. The original jIRC readme file is included in this zip file for copyright reasons. jIRC is Shareware [and as a result, you receive messages encouraging the admin to register when it is used] - if you like the product, and basically if you want it to work correctly you must register it.

Pricing can be found on the jIRC website [www.jpilot.com].

*Thanks to Jakeman, FireFly, TWT Commish and everyone else at vBulletin.org for the help they've given me with vBulletin hacking to date.*

Please click install if you use this hack!

[amykhar]

Cyricx, in your chat.php try putting this before the line that includes global.php:

chdir('/home/gof/public_html/forums');

And make sure the require statement doesn't have a path in it. It should be merely: require('./global.php');

Try it and see. I believe that will fix your probs if chat.php isn't in the same directory as the forums.

[Cyricx]

AHhhhhhhhh

Booya That was it, it had to be in the same folder as the forums. =/

Thank you tons!

[amykhar]

no prob.

Amy

[FleaBag]

Thanks Amy.

[Red Blaze]

A friend of mine gets this error.

Connection: Not Encrypted

I have the address and everything else set up right. Any ideas on how I can fix this?

[Jadelit]

anyone know a good irc network to register on for free?

[sajjid]

05-11-03 at 03:28 AM Jadelit said this in Post #66
anyone know a good irc network to register on for free?

yes
http://www.hashnet.org/

or
irc.unreal.pl

[thesatman]

any ideas how to get this working with V3 beta ??

I think it will only be the gettemplate in chat.php that needs changing , but i'm not sure what to change it to.

Thans
Chris.

[thesatman]

OK got it working with V3-

change chat.php to-

<?php
//Include global variables.
include("global.php");
//Check to see if the user is registered, if they are not, show them the login screen.
if ($bbuserinfo[userid]==0) {
show_nopermission();
}
//If the user is registered, proceed to load the chat template.
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'myfile');

// get special phrase groups
$phrasegroups = array();
// get special data templates from the datastore
$specialtemplates = array();
// pre-cache templates used by all actions
$globaltemplates = array(
'my_custom_template'
);
// pre-cache templates used by specific actions
$actiontemplates = array();

require_once('./global.php');
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('chat') . '");');
?>

[dotagious]

Ok, I have this working on vBulletin 2.3.0 and jPilot 7.0 and the only problem I've encountered is:

The default vbulletin "you are not logged in" page appears when trying to access domain.com/forums/chat.php even though you are in fact logged in. You have to hit refresh for it to recognize this. How can this be fixed?