[Done 1.3-1.4.1] Integrated Chat v.3

[diva_uno]

brodle...
When are the different skins going to be available?

[diva_uno]

One more question.
I was wondering if I could restrict chat to only certain people? I plan to have live chat with a certain celeb and I am going to block out all those members who are not active posters when this chat occurs. I don't know if this is a question for brodle or goosemoose or both.

[bananaman]

One more question.
I was wondering if I could restrict chat to only certain people? I plan to have live chat with a certain celeb and I am going to block out all those members who are not active posters when this chat occurs. I don't know if this is a question for brodle or goosemoose or both.

You would need to modify this line:

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if ($username == "Guest") { die("Guests are not allowed to enter this area!"); }
to exclude specific groups of users.

For example something like this will check to see if the user is part of a member group and will prevent guests and "regular" members from entering the chat through the forum interface.

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   $request3 = mysql_query("SELECT m.memberGroup FROM {$db_prefix}members AS m WHERE m.memberName='$username'");
   while ($tmp = mysql_fetch_array($request3))
   {
      if ($tmp['memberGroup'] != ''){
      $specialmember = 1;
   } else {
      $specialmember = 0;
   }}
if ($specialmember = 0 || $username == "Guest") { die("Only Special Members are allowed to enter this area!"); }
NOTE I have not checked this code - just a quick cobble together to give you an example of what could be done.

[brodle]

brodle...
When are the different skins going to be available?

I just got Adobe installed again so hopefully soon. I made a red skin and working on yellow right now.

I'm probably just going to make the standard web color interfaces.

[diva_uno]

I'll try that out...thanx bananaman

[nferreri]

any idea why it doesn't go into chat with username anymore?  used to work in 1.4 but not in 1.5.. it pops up a dialog to enter your username in.

[brodle]

someone reported this on another site.  Whats your site url and a login and pass to test with?

[CrimSon_ReD]

eyo brodle i am channel owner of my irc channel and the system does not recognize me...Whats the deal?

How do I fix that?

Room #fookshetup

[brodle]

The server was due for a reboot, try it now.

[losthai]

Some notes on this widget...

Uh, I found the hack to turn off images and use a test link, but shouldn't it just work like the rest of the message board? From the CP?

Clicking the chat link in Netscape 7 caused me to be immediately logged out. Happens every time.

Could there be a README added as a quick-and-dirty tutorial on how to modify the privileges of the first user to open the chat if he/she is NOT a site admin? As it is set up now it seems like non-Admins can make policy, ban, etc. and that really should be reserved to Admins if that is a standing feature of the board. Just saying...

Other than that, very kewl and many thanks.

[brodle]

After installing the mod you should sign on and register the room and setup your moderators in it. Once you do that onyl your staff can police and change settings in the room.

As far as netscape 7 issue is this when you just click on the chat icon in main menu?
Whats the url and a login and pass so we can see.

Some notes on this widget...

Uh, I found the hack to turn off images and use a test link, but shouldn't it just work like the rest of the message board? From the CP?

Clicking the chat link in Netscape 7 caused me to be immediately logged out. Happens every time.

Could there be a README added as a quick-and-dirty tutorial on how to modify the privileges of the first user to open the chat if he/she is NOT a site admin? As it is set up now it seems like non-Admins can make policy, ban, etc. and that really should be reserved to Admins if that is a standing feature of the board. Just saying...

Other than that, very kewl and many thanks.

[losthai]

brodle, thanks for the reply. I have [there's no "staff"] taken care of the chat privacy features.

The Netscape bug -- logged out of the board when clicking the chat icon or text link -- not only seems to affect NS7 but NS4.77 also.

I'll PM you a URL and user/pass combo. Thanks again.

[maok]

will this mod work on yabbse1.5 ?

[solarisjedi]

When setting a room to secret, you can no longer see who's in the chat room on the yabb forum. Is there a way around this? I'd like to keep the room off the IRC lists yet allow members of my forum to see who's chatting via the javascript snippet at the top of m yabb forum...

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[brodle]

I should have that fixed this week. Im actually working on the scripts right now.
in the mean time you can set keypass=theroompasswordhere in the chat.php script

and set the password via room options in chat room
that will prevent outsiders form getting in  and will automatically submit the pass for your members.