Chat Modifications - Ideal Chat Lite (facebook style bottom chat/chatroom bar) v1.3.0

This modification adds a bottom bar chat system to your board.

Features

• Friend?s Online List (mutal or all friends)
• Integration with vBulletin's ignore system so users can block messages from people they want
• General Chat Room
• User-to-User Chat
  • Chat with friends
• Support for infinite number of open chats
• Automatic Updating of chat messages
• New message indicators
  • Indicator on Chat Tab for new messages
  • A sound plays for new messages
  • Page title flashes for new messages
  • Indicator for new messages on tabs out of view
• Multiple window support
  • Supports users having your site open in multiple windows/tabs
  • Changes in one window automatically apply to other windows
• Automatically disables chat bar for mobile browsers
  • Help save bandwidth for your mobile users

Settings

• Admin Settings
  • Chat online
  • Ban individual users from chat
  • Update stream time limit
  • Update stream delay
  • Settings & Chat Room link Positions
    • Change where the links show at, or hide them all-together
• Usergroup Settings
  • Can use chat
  • Can use chat room
• User Settings
  • Hide Chat bar
  • New message notification method

Change Log
For a full list of changes, please visit: http://community.idealwebtech.com/in...ngelog&file=15

Installation/Upgrade
See included readme file.

Demo
You can see a demo here (You can can register a new account, or use the Login, "Ideal Chat Demo", and password, "chatdemo") This demo is of the pro version which can be found here!

Support
This modification is released for free, and as such we don't officially support it; however, as time permits we will try to offer support on it. We will NOT be monitoring this thread on a daily basis, your best bet for a fast reply would be to go post here.

Common Issues/Topics
Chat Bar Don't Show Up?
Have you configured the usergroup settings? This is the most common issue we see, and 99% of the time it is due to usergroup settings not being configured properly. So if your bar is not showing up, please verify your usergroup settings before reporting it as an issue.

Messages Don't Show Up?
We are aware of an issue causing messages to not show up for some people, and are looking into fixes.

Modification Has Conflict With Another Product
There is always a chance that two products will conflict with each other! We are aware of some, but please feel free to tell us about any products you find to conflict via our Bug Tracker on our site.

Chat Doesn't Support Certain Characters
The chat can only support the characters your board itself can support! If you would like to support certain characters, you must have your board using a charset that supports them. We have only ever once noticed a chat that didn't support every character the board did, and we are looking in it.

Chat Kills My Server
We have tested the chat extensively for server friendliness, and have found it to be very gentle on servers. We have seen the script run with hundreds of active users without putting hardly any load on the server. However, an improperly configured server may result in any reverse-AJAX/push-AJAX/Comet based chat script killing the server. If you find that your server slows down after installation, you may want to talk with your host about raising your MySQL and Apache Max Connection Limits to a more appropriate amount!

[DNCL]

Suddenly the old closed boxes of chat with friends all popped up as new to me.

Also if you have 2 pages in the forum open and you closed the chat in one of them the other will keep it and when you reload the box will revert back.

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by LA-Aquarium

I had to disable the mod for a while until I can get it fixed.

Should I be editing the ideal_chat_update_stream.php

It caused my forum database connections to max out.

How many members does your site average online at a time? What is your mysql max connections set at? Also what kind of hosting is your site on?

You can update the sleep setting from 1 second to 2, and the stream will use half the resources of before but this won't lower the connection count from the script. Most likely you just need to raise your mysql max connections as it sounds like its set to low. The extra connections generated from this script will basically sit idle till the sleep timer expires then they run 1 query to check for updates. So the extra connections from the script should basically sit idle 90-95% of the time depending on query response time.

[DNCL]

I think this mod has problems with caching systems like memcache or XCache

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by DNCL

I think this mod has problems with caching systems like memcache or XCache

I can state for a fact that it does not have an issue with memcache, xcache shouldn't be able to create a problem either but I dont have it installed on my server to verify (but all it is is an opcode cache).

[mikem164]

I had to disable, will wait for update. I went right for the paid version of microcart when that was released, and the bugs and spelling errors drove me nuts, to the point where I had to disable and wait till I had time to fix myself. I will wait till you get reasonably consistent results before I pick on my forum, which is totally custom and works perfectly otherwise, and the other one, which has had same results with minimal hacks installed. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the hard work IWT, Good Luck, Mike.

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by mikem164

I had to disable, will wait for update. I went right for the paid version of microcart when that was released, and the bugs and spelling errors drove me nuts, to the point where I had to disable and wait till I had time to fix myself. I will wait till you get reasonably consistent results before I pick on my forum, which is totally custom and works perfectly otherwise, and the other one, which has had same results with minimal hacks installed. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the hard work IWT, Good Luck, Mike.

We have already fixed all the spelling errors in the package we hope to be releasing tomorrow. As for the forumhome issue that is not a problem with our mod but with another mod that's not making proper use of the variables and flushing the data (typically it keeps being mods overwriting the variable used to include the css), you can see for yourself by turning off your products one at a time till the chat bar shows up.

[mikem164]

my site with minimal mods has them all off, and it works as stated. PERFECTLY, except for forumhome. I am not the only one with this issue, and all plugins are off but for this one. I also tested this on DEFAULT skin, so it's not a skin conflict

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by mikem164

my site with minimal mods has them all off, and it works as stated. PERFECTLY, except for forumhome. I am not the only one with this issue, and all plugins are off but for this one. I also tested this on DEFAULT skin, so it's not a skin conflict

With what version of vbulletin as every version we have tested has worked perfectly? As the variable used to add the css is the same for that page as the other pages, so logically it should work on forumhome unless something is overwriting the variable, maybe this is related to only a specific version of vBulletin.

[gsmlover4u]

not working always show bussy bar when click on online friends

[basilrath]

ok update............

tried this and moved various coding around etc

the conflict is with VSA Topstats (ajax)

this is a great mod but top stats wins on the useful side so although id love to have both it seems the chat has a conflict with below

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...light=topstats