VBChat Question

[testpig]

Hi all.
Has anyone installed or played with VBChat? I uploaded it last week but there seem to be a few bugs with the hack. It runs on my Default template but not others despite editing the other templates.

If I open the chat in a blank page, and then flick back to the forum and change the skin....the chat crashes!

Its not a bad hack and suits the needs of my members but I'm starting to wonder it its not the right direction due to the bugs (and the lack of interest from the creator).

Anyone ever played with VBchat?.....or can recommend a better option to run out of my board? I'm currently running VB3.03 but I can feel an upgrade to 3.5 coming (lest I get left behind in the rush).

Thanks for your thoughts,

snappy,
hemi6pack.com

[Zero Tolerance]

flashchat is a db driven chat....works pretty good and is full of eye candy. Very easy to mod and supports alot of CMS's so your users dont have to register a new user/pass to enter chat...it rather gets user info from your CMS user db.

I grabbed the includes from my common.php file for the CMS's it supports.....but I am sure if you are a coder you could mod it for something not listed.....note that vBulletin IS listed..however I am not sure if it will work with your version.


//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/statelessCMS.php');
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/defaultCMS.php');
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/phpNukeModCMS.php');//module version
include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/phpNukeCMS.php');//stand-alone version
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/postNukeModCMS.php');//module version
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/postNukeCMS.php');//stand-alone version
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/xoopsCMS.php');
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/phpBB2CMS.php');
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/geeklogCMS.php');
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/vbulletinCMS.php');
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/xmbCMS.php');
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/mamboCMS.php');
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/e107CMS.php');
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/ipbCMS.php');//for version 2.0.0
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/ipbCMS2.php');//for version 2.0.3
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/moodleCMS.php');
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/smfCMS.php');
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/lunabyteCMS.php');
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/fusionCMS.php');
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/azdgCMS.php');
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/aedatingCMS.php');
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/wowCMS.php');
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/ubbCMS.php');
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/mdproCMS.php');
//include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/wotCMS.php');

Flashchat is not free....but the cost is a nominal $5 fee to get a license. Just Google for it if you want to try it.

There of course is always setting up an IRC channel

:D

goodluck!

[testpig]

Thanks ZT.
I have heard a little about Flash Chat so its seems a good option. Didnt you have something to do with VB Chat? I dont mind the layout but I seem to have a couple of annoying bugs. I was curious as to wether I should work with it, or if it wont be supported in 3.5 then maybe its time to move on.

Cheers,

[Zero Tolerance]

No...I have never had anything to do with vB anything....sorry.

PS...I dont say that as slander....I just have never used vB on any of my sites.

goodluck!

[Greg]

Flashchat is worth the five bucks. All who use it like it.

http://tufat.com/script.php?id_num=2#resources

[Zero Tolerance]

I agrree Nopp....I use it on my radio station site and it works good. I have an older version and sometimes...not very often...but sometimes if alot of people post at the exact same time...the db gets confused and will lock up. I think this can be attributed to being run on a "virtual server". But cannot say as to IF that is why or not. If it is a bug...I would say it is fixed by now.

A nice feature about it is it is TOTALLY customizable. You can use your own images for backgrounds and sound files for actions. Of course emoticons are customizable as well.

The newest version has media support plus file transfers(up to 2mb limit since it is in a web brouser enviro).

All in all like nopp said..its well worth the 5 bucks. The only con I have of it is it is database driven off of your site and not like IRC where your channel is on a seperate server(in most cases anyway). So saying that, if you are running your site on a hosting company that is NOT a dedicated server....but rather a "virtual server" where you are sharing an SQL server with other people....you could get the database lockup as I described above!

Other than that...its a great application!

[Greg]

I'm not convinced it's a good solution for a large crowd. I'd steer folks toward IRC if that was the case.

[testpig]

Hi guys.
I've installed FlashChat and its a VAST improvement on the previous software. Thanks for the tip!

My board is only a small gathering of car nuts (550+ members) but we communicate well accross Australia using the forum, so its helped bring uor hobby closer together. We do tend to be image intensive so the file sharing function is also great (and its the reason I'm hanging for the gallery :)

Thanks again for the suggestion,
snappy.

[Zero Tolerance]

I'm not convinced it's a good solution for a large crowd. I'd steer folks toward IRC if that was the case.

Exactly!