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]

Too many conflicts till now for this mod, it seems it will end up removed or replaced by BoWoB Chat

[Alfa1]

Judging from IWC his previous thread, it seems to me that IdealChat is still in beta phase and should be marked as such. It will take some time before the startup issues are worked out. And testers help resolving this. After that we should see a solid release.

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by DNCL

Too many conflicts till now for this mod, it seems it will end up removed or replaced by BoWoB Chat

Out of the 70+ installs that have happened using the lite version alone, only a few people have reported any issues, and 2 of them we're simple bugs that have already been fixed for the next version.

Most of the rest of the reported issues are conflicts with VSa products (VSa Chatbox, VSa Paypal Donate, VSa Topstats), so we will have to look into what in particular is causing their products to break ours.

Take those out of the equation and there are only 3 people, that I see, that actually have an issue with the product right now, and we are investigating them so we can apply fixes if we find there actually is a problem in the code.

I know that we have installed it numerous times on several different versions of vB without it having any issues. We even installed it on vB 3.8, and the only issue we had was the change in how the templates are accessed.

Originally Posted by gsmlover4u

not working always show bussy bar when click on online friends

For you, please check your PMs.

[DNCL]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

After that we should see a solid release.

I hope so.

[Bloodlust80]

I have just installed this on my site.

I cannot see any chatbox at all

I am running Vb 4.1.5

EDIT: Nvm needed to edit permissions

[basilrath]

i like the mod as most do but the conflicts with other ajax scripts is making it unworkable but if theres a work around then id be the first to onboard..........

Please dont take this as a knock back ........ damn good work and im hoping for a work around

[basilrath]

By the way the BoWoB Chat seems to have the same conflict with VSA Topstats

[Bloodlust80]

Database error in vBulletin :

mysqli_real_connect() [<a href='function.mysqli-real-connect'>function.mysqli-real-connect</a>]: (42000/1203): User ******** already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections
/homez.196/secretan/www/includes/class_core.php on line 1317

Thankfully i tested it with a few users first. Anyone know the fix for this error?

this is vbulletin 4.1.5. Good software other than that problem

EDIT: Oh dear, fail again on my half. That is something set by my hosting company.

May as well wait till I can get a better server

(I am not this nooby ... honest)

[DNCL]

New conflict issue with DragonByte Tech: vBNotifications, clicking on a notification from vBNotifications does nothing when chat mod is enabled.

[strudinox]

I've installed this, enabled in the settings, and configured usergroups, and no chat on any of my pages. I'm running VB v4.1.5