Add-On Releases - Official AddonChat Product

vBulletin 3.7.x Official Integration & Authentication Extension

Product Info
Name: AddonChat Official Integration Product
Product ID: ac80_37
Version: 3.7.0
Author: AddonInteractive (http://www.addoninteractive.com/)
Last Modified: 15 May. 2008
Compatibility: vBulletin 3.7.x

Overview
This extension allows you to fully integrate a AddonChat Free, Professional, Professional PLUS or Enterprise Java? Chat Room with your vBulletin 3.7 forum system. This script provides basic integration for AddonChat Free and Professional customers. Remote authentication (the ability to secure access to your chat room using your vBulletin username/passwords) is available for Pro+/Enterprise customers, as well as a Who's Chatting feature.

Requirements

• vBulletin 3.7 or higher
• AddonChat Free, Professional PLUS, or Enterprise, or AddonChat Professional with the Remote (HTTP) Authentication System. You may register for a AddonChat account at www.addonchat.com. A Professional PLUS or Enterprise account is recommended to take advantage of advanced features.
• (optional, but recommended) PHP with allow_url_fopen directive enabled in your php.ini file or the PHP CURL extension. This is required to download the Who's Chatting list from AddonChat servers.

What's new?
This script is a completely revamped edition of our previous integration script. Installation no longer requires any template or code modifications. Additionally, there are no PHP files to edit when setting up your chat room. We have added an "AddonChat" menu item in the vBulletin AdminCP that allows you to setup and configure your chat room with ease. Most users will simply need to enter their account number and password (as used at addonchat.com) and your chat room settings will be retrieved automatically, with your remote authentication system updated automatically as well. We have also improved character code support through better UTF-8 conversion allowing non-English speakers to use a vBulletin+AddonChat without issue. Issues relating to the Who's Chatting system causing problems have also been addresses; a scheduled task has been added to automatically optimize and repair AddonChat related tables daily in addition to improvements to the re-written Who's Chatting system.

Features

• Seamless integration between your vBulletin forum and AddonChat
• After installation, setup and configure your chat room from the AddonChat menu in your vBulletin Admin Control Panel
• Popup and Embedded Chat room link options
• Automatic (ten minute interval) User's Chatting count updates
• Real-Time Who's Chatting list
• Display the amount of users within your chat room on your main navbar shown throughout your entire forum
• Remote authentication allows you to authenticate access into your chat room based on your vBulletin user database
• Automatic user login option
• Seamless integration with vBulletin Usergroup permissions (remote authentication)
• Remote functions system allows you to tie in vBulletin forum functions into the AddonChat user menu
• Uses the vBulletin XML product import architecture, making installation/uninstallation simple.
• No code or template modifications required
• Automated account lookup - just enter your account number and password, and your information will be automatically retrieved. (allow_url_fopen must be enabled in PHP)
• Multi-lingual (UTF-8) support

Installation
Installaion takes less than five minutes. Download the supplied ZIP file, and extract it on your personal computer. Open the readme.txt file for full installation instructions. No PHP code modifications or template modifications are required. This script makes use of the vBulletin XML Product system for a fast and painless installation.

Support
Support is provided by AddonInteractive for this script provided you have a Professional, Professional PLUS or Enterprise AddonChat account. Read the included instructions for details. Please let us know if you have any problems installing this extension.

[purepothead]

Grim aka Chris is the man to aim for when asking for support! He definitaly assisted our site untill it was all working 100%. Which was a mission from our heavily changed board. Out of the last 3 chats we have offered our members this seems to be the one that everyone liked best so far, we even got chatters campin in there now haha.

Thanks Chris! Will be bugging you shortly about some problems we just found! (minor)

[Mrdby]

grim..i';m going to install this today and might buy the plus version.

[NeutralizeR]

I've 123 Flash Chat, Tufat's Flash Chat, ChatBox and this chat's free version (installed now to test).

Members liked the speed of your chat but they hated the plain interface after using the systems above.

I'd buy the Pro version if it had "Add your own background images" feature.

[soundbarrierpro]

Can there be any good reason for me to unload MGC_Chat_Evo to exchange for this mod?

[GaiLoan]

very nice thanks

[Grim77]

purepothead -- Not sure which ticket is yours, but I assume the issue (whatever it was) is resolved now. If not, let me know.

NeutralizeR -- eMail us at support@addonchat.com; we'll see what we can do to help out.

soundbarrierpro -- you should be able to run the two side by side if you'd like.

GaiLoan -- You're welcome

[purepothead]

Yup, it was the Func issue, simple over look and fixxed, Thanks!

[shlomot]

Hello,

Full integration with vBulletin should also mean that inactivity time will be measured (optionally) by forum session versus chat session.

Please provide us with this option for better user experience. Thanks.

P.S. I'm using the Enterprise version.

[shlomot]

AddonChat is far superior performance and server load wise.

Originally Posted by soundbarrierpro

Can there be any good reason for me to unload MGC_Chat_Evo to exchange for this mod?

[shlomot]

One thing that is missing in the integration of AddonChat with vBulletin - unlike with all the non-external solutions - is the option to invite another logged-on user on vB to chat.

As I mentioned before, this must-have feature is built in all the other chat & shout products that are not external.

Calling a user to join my chat via PM finds me in a ridiculous position where the user has long logged off the forum without even reading my PM.

Another alternative is to use another product for shouting, but then - what's the point of installing two RC applications?

Please help with this must-have feature. Thanks.