SigmaChat Complete Integration & Authentication

Hack Info
Name: SigmaChat Complete Integration & Authentication Add-on
Version: 2.0.0
Author: Chris Duerr, RaiderSoft
First Introduced: 28 Mar. 2004
Last Modified: 15 Nov. 2004
Compatability: vBulletin 3.0.x

Overview
This addon allows you to fully integrate a SigmaChat Java? Chat Room (free or paid service; Platinum or Enterprise required for full functionality) with your vBulletin 3.0.x forum system, including the ability to authenticate access via your vBulletin forum system, and provide a "Who's Chatting" page list showing who is currently logged into your chat room.

Features

• Chat room integrates via a single link in your vBulletin forum navigation bar, or via a forum link.
• Chat room may be placed in it's own vBulletin page, and/or as a popup window.
• Automatic user login option.
• Remote authentication script allows you to authenticate access into your chat room via your vBulletin user database.
• Complete control over which user groups are allowed access, allowed administrative access, or denied access.
• Real time "Who's Chatting" page allows you to show which users are currently in your chat room by interfacing with SigmaChat's "Who's Online Module" system.
• Makes use of vBulletin's template and phrase system for easy modification, and multilingual operation.
• Show who is chatting from your forums main page
• Automatic chat integration with your vBulletin user profiles, email, PM, etc..

Installation
Installation will require between 15 to 30 minutes of your time depending upon your proficiency in installing addons to vBulletin. Download the attached 'sigmachat.zip' file, and load the INSTALL.html file in your web browser for detailed instructions.

RaiderSoft may be able to assist you with installation should you require it. Please contact us for details.

Support
Support is provided by RaiderSoft for this script provided you have a Platinum or Enterprise SigmaChat account. Read the included instructions for details. I'll be happy to answer questions here as well regarding the script.

Screenshots are attached

The all new extension for vBulletin 3.5 has been released. For more information, please visit this link .

Download: VB3SC7_2.0.0.zip or download using the download link in the upper-right hand corner of this message.

[Grim77]

Just a quick heads up here...

We're working on some updates to SigmaChat. Check out http://beta.sigmachat.com/ and http://support.raidersoft.com/forums...topic=968&st=0 for status info and some mid-development screenshots. When the final release is made, an update to the integration/authentication hack will soon follow

[accyroy]

Hi Chris - thanks for the update! Just wondering, will the next version of the hack support showing how many/who is in chat on forumhome... As soon as this is implemented then I'll be upgrading to the platinum version.

[cosmin]

chris,

i wrote you a couple of times and emailed you my chat_global file for my site: http://www.royouth.com .... everyone in this thread seems to have installed it fine, and i followed the install instructions perfectly and i get an error that the username/password is invalid when trying to enter the chatroom via a popup box...

please review by clicking on the roCHAT text link on our site.

would you know why this is doing this, or anyone else know?

i did buy the premium membership through IPB's website, but the chat control panel is through your website and i changed the USERS > OPTIONS settings according to the install instructions.

any ideas?

[NexVision]

Originally Posted by cosmin

chris,

i wrote you a couple of times and emailed you my chat_global file for my site: http://www.royouth.com .... everyone in this thread seems to have installed it fine, and i followed the install instructions perfectly and i get an error that the username/password is invalid when trying to enter the chatroom via a popup box...

please review by clicking on the roCHAT text link on our site.

would you know why this is doing this, or anyone else know?

i did buy the premium membership through IPB's website, but the chat control panel is through your website and i changed the USERS > OPTIONS settings according to the install instructions.

any ideas?

make sure you have granted the usergroup in ??? access

[WhiteOx2]

Does anyone have a zip file that's not empty ?

[kontrabass]

Arghh... I've gone through the instructions again and again and double checked everything... but when I click on my chat url (chat.php, embeded), it opens a blank page. I'm assuming some php error but nothing shows up in the error log.

I wish I could give more info, but I really don't know what I could have done wrong Using a free sigmachat account for now. One thing that I'm not quite sure on - I use multiple VB styles - does it matter which style I create the sigmachat_x templates under?

[apokphp]

yes Kontra....this has to be a template issue. Blank pages like that always do.

[Majik?]

Have had this installed for a little while now and was tesitng with jus tthe staff. Must say it's an excellent service. We ordered the Platinum service yesterday and the account was upgraded in a matter of hours.

We just have to finish customizing the colours and logo for it beofr ewe make it available to the general membership. I noticed in the FAQs that a limited few colour parameters can be passed to it, but it would be really good if all the colours could be passed to the applet from the script or be bale to set multiple colour sets in the SigmaChat CP and then pass a single variable with the number of the colour set to use. That way, it could be cmpletely integrated with each individual forum style.

Other than the colour thing though, not a problem.. Not that that's even a problem, more of a suggestion/preference.

[weewilly]

Am I the only one who cannot seem to make this hack work?

When I had the chat on a standalone webpahe, it worked great. With this hack, and using a forum link to access chat, the applet fails.

I have checked and double-checked everything and I can find no reason for this to be happenening. Any ideas?

[accyroy]

Any update on showing the users in chat on forumhome yet?