Integrate RealChat & Vbulletin

[Jaime82]

Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to integrate the new version of Realchat and Vbulletin 3.7.0. Below I will post the code RealChat gives you to use to integrate it with Vbulletin. I need to know what to put where it says rawurlencode("test") for it to pull usernames from Vbulletin.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Jaime

PHP Code:

<?php
    /**
     * Nickname, avatar and profile URLs.
     * These are usually pulled from the database.
     */
    $nickName = rawurlencode("test");   // rawurlencode is important
    $profileURL = rawurlencode("http://www.example.com/");
    $avatarURL = rawurlencode("http://www.example.com/avatar.jpg");
     
    /**
     * This string must match the Authentication Key, that you
     * specified in the RealChat Control Center, Server Settings.
     */
    $authKey = "KUASRDJMLBVVVPKR";
     
    /**
     * Valid chat launching link generated with the Control Center.
     */
    $link = "http://chathost:port/?0,0,0,0,0";
     
    /**
     * Generates a HMAC-protected link, based on the source link,
     * username, avatar and profile URLS, and authKey.
     */
    function HMACLink($nickName, $profileURL, $avatarURL, $link, $authKey) {
        $cpID = substr(strrchr($link, ','), 1);
        $hmac = md5($cpID.$nickName.$profileURL.$avatarURL.$authKey.date('Ymd'));
        return $link."&nn=".$nickName."&pu=".$profileURL."&au=".$avatarURL."&hmac=".$hmac;
    }
     
    /**
     * The dedicated chat URL for this user.
     * It should be used for Chat Now buttons, etc.
     */
    $hmacLink = HMACLink( $nickName, $profileURL, $avatarURL, $link, $authKey );
     
     
     
    // a test
    echo '<a href="'.$hmacLink.'">Chat Now!</a>';
?>

[Dismounted]

Where are you looking to put this code?

[Jaime82]

It's a php page by itself, just that code on the page. The page is in my chat directory and I want it to pull the users information from Vbulletin, which is in a bbs directory.

[Dismounted]

As discussed many times before, you can fetch everything you really need by including global.php.

[Jaime82]

Ok I understand that, but do you know what to put in these lines? I need to replace the "test" with something that is going to be rawurlencoded. I don't understand rawurlencode.

$nickName = rawurlencode("test"); // rawurlencode is important
$profileURL = rawurlencode("http://www.example.com/");
$avatarURL = rawurlencode("http://www.example.com/avatar.jpg");

Thanks

Jaime

[Eric]

Something like:

PHP Code:

    $nickName = rawurlencode($vbulletin->userinfo['username']);   // rawurlencode is important
    $profileURL = rawurlencode($vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/member.php?u=' . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid']);
    $avatarURL = rawurlencode($vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/image.php?u=' . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid']); 


[Dismounted]

That will only work once the $vbulletin object has been created (by including global.php).

[Jaime82]

Thank you very much SecondV, that worked!

I do have one more question for you. I want my chat page to say Welcome "Username". I'm having a problem calling up the username from Vbulletin on the same page I put that code you gave me. Would you happen to know what code I would use?

Thank you!

Jaime

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Dismounted

That will only work once the $vbulletin object has been created (by including global.php).

Indeed, thanks for posting - I forgot to include that

Originally Posted by Jaime82

Thank you very much SecondV, that worked!

I do have one more question for you. I want my chat page to say Welcome "Username". I'm having a problem calling up the username from Vbulletin on the same page I put that code you gave me. Would you happen to know what code I would use?

Thank you!

Jaime

If you're using that in the template, I believe template-wise you would use, as an example:

PHP Code:

<strong>Welcome, $bbuserinfo[username]!</strong> 


[Jaime82]

I'm not using it in a template, it's on a php page in my chat directory. It's the same page you gave me the other code for.

Thanks

Jaime