Chat in 2.0?

[Fred]

My forum is in desperate need of a chat room. I was wondering if vb2.0 will have a chat room ?

[Joe]

no it wont. Have you been to the v2 beta site? http://beta.jelsoft.com

[JamesUS]

Try out http://conferenceroom.com for an IRC-linked chat. Demo is at http://edevboards.com (click the chat link)

[brookelyn]

I was able to integrate digichat ( http://www.digichat.com ) with my user database and it works rather well - not sure if it will still work with 2.0, but hopefully it will

[Fred]

James, yours is excellent. I'll use that on my 2.0. Thanks!

[chrispadfield]

Originally posted by brookelyn
I was able to integrate digichat ( http://www.digichat.com ) with my user database and it works rather well - not sure if it will still work with 2.0, but hopefully it will

I love digichat and really want it the only things about it as i see are:

1) not enough text in on one page and not sure if this can be changed? avatars seemed to take up to much space.
2) it is flipping expensive
3) server hog???????
4) can not access via irc. advantages and disadvantages to this.

[brookelyn]

Originally posted by chrispadfield


I love digichat and really want it the only things about it as i see are:

1) not enough text in on one page and not sure if this can be changed? avatars seemed to take up to much space.
2) it is flipping expensive
3) server hog???????
4) can not access via irc. advantages and disadvantages to this.

1) what do you mean not enough text? a message to the chatroom can be much longer than an AIM message ever could be.
2) Yes it is, however I use the hosting option and it's fantastic - I don't even have to deal with it and it uses NONE of MY bandwidth.
4) IRC annoys me so I wouldn't know

[brookelyn]

oh did you mean the avatars are too small?
I don't think that can be changed, but it hasn't been a problem for me really, i think anything larger would be too obnoxious for a chatroom being so huge. check out my chat somtime, we have tons of icons to choose from and they seem to work fine.

[anko]

hi there,

vbulletin 2.0 is exactly the software I was looking for - great! but there are some questions left:

* is there any webbased chat-software you can recommend which uses the vbulletin 2.0 database so users may login once and use the forum and the chat?

* are you planning to update vbulletin and build in a webbased chat?
* if yes: when will this version be available?

so long, anko

[klisis]

Originally posted by anko
hi there,

vbulletin 2.0 is exactly the software I was looking for - great! but there are some questions left:

* is there any webbased chat-software you can recommend which uses the vbulletin 2.0 database so users may login once and use the forum and the chat?

* are you planning to update vbulletin and build in a webbased chat?
* if yes: when will this version be available?

so long, anko

*There sure are but I don't know which one.

*I don't think it will ever happen.

*Beta 2 released today.

[PeF]

* is there any webbased chat-software you can recommend which uses the vbulletin 2.0 database so users may login once and use the forum and the chat?

Nope. There's no chat which uses vB 2.0 database as I know, however I suppose it won't take long when someone makes a hack.

* are you planning to update vbulletin and build in a webbased chat?

I don't think so.

* if yes: when will this version be available?

Final release could be out within a month. Beta 2 is the lastest you can download from members area. Read John's announcement for changes and bugfixes.

[anko]

thanxs for your answers although I'm not very happy about it :-)

is there a chat-software you would recommand?

anko

[PeF]

Originally posted by anko
is there a chat-software you would recommand?


phpMyChat

You might want to try following links:
http://www.hotscripts.com
http://php.resourceindex.com

[EglsFly]

I would like to see a Chat option available.
It could even be an upgrade option, $30 etc.

[Wayne Luke]

Originally posted by EglsFly
I would like to see a Chat option available.
It could even be an upgrade option, $30 etc.

A seamless non-refreshing chat whether in PHP or a PHP/Java combo would be worth a lot more than $30 a copy.

Competitors like DigiChat go for $10,000 per server.

[mel]

I purchased infochat from 12planet.com, its a really smooth chat program, non-refreshing and entirely based on java.

Has anyone use this before and integrate the membership data with vb?

[ToraTora!]

We're using InfoChat on our site and are looking VERY hard for a way to integrate it. Currently, our search strategy is focused on:

finding a parameter to pass to InfoChat that pre-sets the login ID:

As such:

<param name="AutoLogin" value="TRUE">
<param name="AutoLoginName" value="{$bbuserinfo[username]}">

We had a chat.php and the above lines in the chat templte we set up would do the trick!!!

The above parameters do NOT work with InfoChat ... hence our search for the correct parameters.

chat.php:

<?
require( "global.php" );

if( $bbuserid ) {

$user = $DB_site->query_first( "SELECT username
FROM user
WHERE userid = $bbuserid" );
$bbusername = $user[ username ];
eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate(chat)."\");");
} else {
eval("dooutput(\"".show_nopermission()."\");");
} // end if
?>

Direct people to chat.php, which calls the chat template, in which resides the java applet to start your chat session, which is where the parameters are set!!

In theory ---- we just need the correct parameters to pass to InfoChat via the proces above. :)