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Released: 01-12-2010 Last Update: 08-03-2012 Installs: 242
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vBulletin 4 Official Integration & Authentication Extension

Product Info
Name: AddonChat Official Integration Product
Product ID: addonchat
Version: 4.0.2, 4.2.0
Author: AddonInteractive (http://www.addoninteractive.com/)
Last Modified: 4 Aug. 2012
Compatibility: vBulletin 4.0.x+, 4.2.x+

Overview
This extension allows you to fully integrate a AddonChat Free, Professional, Professional PLUS or Enterprise Java? Chat Room with your vBulletin 4 forum or CMS. 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 4 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?
  • Completely re-written for vBulletin 4
  • New Integration Options for vBulletin Social Networking Features (Blog, Albums, etc..)
  • Updated to support RAS (Remote Authentication System) v2.1 providing extremely fine grain control over user privileges.
  • New 'User is Banned' option in usergroup manager to easily prevent users belonging to specified usergroups from entering your chat room.
  • Who's Chatting list is now (optionally) displayed on main forum page in the What's Going On box.
  • Embedded Width may now be specified in percentage values (defaults to 100%)
  • Option to display Chat Room Link in main navigation tab, community menu, and/or quick links menu.
  • New in v4.0.1: Updated Link Code
  • New in v4.0.1: Support for AddonChat Mobile Edition (iPhone, iPod Touch, etc..)
  • New in v4.0.1: SSL Support (Automatic Detection)
  • New in v4.0.1: Easy AddonChat control panel access through vBulletin AdminCP
  • New in v4.0.1: vBulletin CMS Widget (Optional)
  • New in v4.0.1: Language Additions
  • Changed in v4.2.0: Temporarily suspended pop-up feature. We advise customers to enable the Java 6+ Detach feature along with the pop-up after login options from their AddonChat control panel to emulate this behavior.
  • Updated in 4.2.0: Support for new vBulletin 4.2.x navigation system

Features
  • Seamless integration between your vBulletin Forum/CMS and AddonChat
  • After installation, set up and configure your chat room from the AddonChat menu in your vBulletin Admin Control Panel
  • Automatic (ten minute interval) User's Chatting updates
  • Optionally display the amount of users within your chat room on your chat navigation tab shown throughout your entire forum/CMS.
  • 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 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
  • Supports both the AddonChat Mobile Edition & SSL Modules through automatic client/page detection.
Installation
Installation 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.
Which file do I download?
vBulletin 4.2.x+ users, download attached file: product-addonchat_4-2-0.zip
vBulletin 4.0.x, 4.1.x users, download attached file: product-addonchat_4-0-2.zip

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  #72  
Old 02-24-2010, 06:40 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by worried View Post
Can anyone confirm AddonChat works with vB 4.0.2?
Tested and working fine
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Old 02-24-2010, 06:46 PM
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Hi Chris,
I signed up for the pro plus and everything works great. I do however have one issue and one question. I have a couple of users that can get in to the chat just fine as long as they enter from the forum home page, if they click on one of the forums and then try to go in they are getting a blank page and the chat never loads. I was wondering if you know what might be causing this?

The other question I have is I am looking to seo the site a little better, is there a way I can hide the navbar and quick links from unregistered users?
Are you using the embedded version? If you're using the popup version, does a blank popup appear, or..? The links should be identical unless you've customized them. Either way I'd like to take a closer look. If you could e-mail support@addonchat.com attn:Chris and provide a test user account it would allow us to track down and correct any problems quickly.

Regarding your SEO question, we've already have a couple requests for this and it will be implemented in the next minor update. We have one other integration script in front of us before we start adding the latest customer requests and issue another update
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Old 02-26-2010, 10:09 AM
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Chris,
Do you mind if I post my template edit to hide the navbar tab and quick links to unregistered users and it displays a register link instead as well as it validates with w3c also?
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Old 02-27-2010, 01:22 AM
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Not at all We may integrated it into the next update - with your permission, of-course
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Old 02-27-2010, 01:54 AM
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I don't mind if ya add it. I will see if I can do this right.

This isn't much of a mod but it will hide the chat room link in the navbar and navmenu for unregistered users and puts Register links in there place which is actually pretty handy since some don't seem to ever see the default register link in the top right of the header. It also changes the onClick to onclick to help with validating with W3C.

It is only two template changes.

First you want to go to Admincp -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> and then choose edit templates from the drop down of your style you want to change.

Double click on the AddonChat Templates >>

The first template you want to edit is addonchat_nav_link

Replace all of what is in the template with this:

Code:
<!-- remove chat link for guests -->
<vb:if condition="$show['member']">

<!-- AddonChat Nav Link -->
<vb:if condition="$addonchat['link_enable_tab'] == 1">
   <vb:if condition="$addonchat['enabled'] == 1">  
      <vb:if condition="$addonchat['vb_enable_popup']">
         <li><a class="navtab" 
                href="addonchat.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}"
                onclick="window.open('addonchat.php?do=popup&{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}', 'addonchat', 
                     'width={vb:raw addonchat.width_float},height={vb:raw addonchat.height_float},statusbar=no,scrollbars=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no,resizable=yes'); 
                     return false">{vb:rawphrase addonchat_nav_link_title} {vb:raw addonchat.user_count_bracket}</a></li>
      <vb:else />
         <vb:if condition="$vboptions['selectednavtab'] == 'addonchat'">
            <li class="selected"><a class="navtab" href="addonchat.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase addonchat_nav_link_title} {vb:raw addonchat.user_count_bracket}</a></li>
         <vb:else />
            <li><a class="navtab" href="addonchat.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase addonchat_nav_link_title} {vb:raw addonchat.user_count_bracket}</a></li>
         </vb:if>   
      </vb:if>
   </vb:if>
</vb:if>   
<!-- /AddonChat Nav Link -->

<!-- display register link in place of chat, helps validate -->
<vb:else />
     <li><a class="navtab" href="http://www.gttalk.com/register.php">Register</a></li>
</vb:if>

The other template you want to edit is addonchat_nav_menu_link

Replace all of what is in the template with this:

Code:
<!-- remove chat link for guests -->
<vb:if condition="$show['member']">

<!-- AddonChat Interior Nav Link -->
<vb:if condition="$addonchat['enabled'] == 1">  
   <vb:if condition="$addonchat['vb_enable_popup']">
      <li><a href="addonchat.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}"
             onclick="window.open('addonchat.php?do=popup&{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}', 'addonchat', 
                  'width={vb:raw addonchat.width_float},height={vb:raw addonchat.height_float},statusbar=no,scrollbars=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no,resizable=yes'); 
                  return false">{vb:rawphrase addonchat_nav_link_title} {vb:raw addonchat.user_count_bracket}</a></li>
   <vb:else />
      <vb:if condition="$vboptions['selectednavtab'] == 'addonchat'">
         <li><a href="addonchat.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase addonchat_nav_link_title} {vb:raw addonchat.user_count_bracket}</a></li>
      <vb:else />
         <li><a href="addonchat.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase addonchat_nav_link_title} {vb:raw addonchat.user_count_bracket}</a></li>
      </vb:if>   
   </vb:if>
</vb:if>
<!-- /AddonChat Interior Nav Link -->

<!-- display register link in place of chat, also helps validate -->
<vb:else />
     <li><a href="http://www.gttalk.com/register.php">Register</a></li>
</vb:if>
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Anyone having issues with a Java update not installing properly and causing the chat room to not work?

I got the plugin graphic and click it to install the latest version of Java, but the process didn't work or so it said it didn't work. I did a manual install and now the chatroom works, but it pops up a screen saying it wants to use an older version of Java. Anyone else have this problem? I'm trying to figure out what to tell people on the forum that are having problems connecting to chat.
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Hi Troy,

I have seen this happen before when upgrading very old versions of Java. AddonChat requires Java 1.5 (or Java 5 as it is more commonly referred) which is now fairly old technology actually - about 5 years I think.

An offline (manual) installation is usually the way to go; making sure that all browser windows are closed before a user begins the offline installation. In the rare cases that this does not work we usually advise users to uninstall any version of Java they may have installed. Usually this can be done (in Windows) via the control panel add/remove programs utility.

People using virtually antique machines - I.e., Windows 95 running IE 4 or something may have an older Microsoft Virtual Machine (MVM) installed which can be disabled from their Advanced browser settings. We don't see much of this anymore though
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I get a LOT of errors on this mod:

"Invalid password"

I have to click in and out a few times before getting in.
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Great mod, but you have to get the PLUS version to be able to use all the features. Which is stupid cuz its like $125, lol.
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Bug found?
I'm using the .httaccess file on my forums and if I'm on any other page then the index.php page I get a page not found screen in the pop-up window for the chat room as its trying to pull the url.

Meaning, if I'm viewing a thread its trying to open:
url.com/forums/addonchat.php?do=popup&

If I click on the link while on a post page I get:
url.com/threads/addonchat.php?do=popup&

etc, etc.

This also happens with the other links for the chatroom...
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