[rawnet]

Hi Dom,

This hack looks hugely encouraging. I'm not keen to be the first person to try it. I'm also using vbPortal and would like to include this information in a side block, if possible.

My main concern before installing it would be speed - how does this affect loading time of your forums? Have you noticed much difference? What has been the response of your users?

Cheers for now,

Ross

[GeorgeofCS]

I know solution to the delay, but seeing that everyone just "steals" my code and re-releases it without asking first I'll keep the information for myself. Cause frankly if you had asked I would have told you the code doesn't work quite well for refreshing.

[rawnet]

If part of this hack hack does user GeorgeofCS's code, and he hasn't been asked or credited then this hack should be removed.

[Dom]

The reason I posted this is no body has made a good solution for showing who is in the chat when using vbulletin.

The code works fine with reloading and I don't see any performance changes. It works well.

As for the code I stole, it was only the
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if ($showforumusers) {
$datecut = $ourtimenow - $cookietimeout;
$chatters = '';
$comma = '';
$forumusers = $DB_site->query("SELECT username, invisible, userid
FROM user
WHERE inchat = 1 AND
lastchatactivity > $datecut");
while ($forumuser = $DB_site->fetch_array($forumusers)) {
if (!$forumuser['invisible'] or $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 6) {
$userid = $forumuser['userid'];
$username = $forumuser['username'];
if ($forumuser['invisible'] == 1) { // Invisible User but show to Admin
$invisibleuser = '*';
} else {
$invisibleuser = '';
}
eval("\$chatters .= \"".$comma.gettemplate('forumdisplay_loggedinuser')."\";");
$comma = ', ';
}
}

}
------

I would have rewrote, but why do it if one is already main availble. I have noted it's your code. I really don't care if you or I made it. I am not here for competition! I am here to offer some sort of solution to your problems. I mentioned your name.

ITS GEORGEOFCS CODE!!! Yes those 10 lines are his code. It works well. If he won't allow you to use it, I will write my own.

I am sorry for the missunderstanding, I thought this is a community for sharing ideas. Seems to me it's a popularity spike.
I am not selling the code, so don't worry no million is going to arrive at my door.

Cheers

-Dom

[sk187]

Dom- great script im deffinetly going to use it but can you please post a link to the jpilot hack you used? I have a copy of jpilot and have been using it in a different way on my board and want to intergreat it like you did.


Hi stan

[Dom]

You are going to have to tell me exacthly what you mean. All you have to do is make a button in one of the templates to open a new window that frame window.

[Lesane]

Great! Thanks for sharing. Gonna install this one later.

[GeorgeofCS]

The point of my post is at least you could have asked me first. Not so much because I don't want you taking my hack, but rather there's bugs in my code and the better version was to be release within the next day or so, and it's bug free and not beta.

[Dom]

I am sorry Goerge , I should have asked you are right. If you do have a new version do share it with us if you like. I didn't proclaim the code as being mine, so I really didn't think it would matter to you even if I mentioned your name.

Again sorry.


There seems to be a slight delay in a post however. It displays the users in the chat, but they are no longer there. It does have something to do with your code and cookietimeout time stamp.


-Dom

[jisung]

Dom,
I'm trying to install this hack but having difficulty now.

Now I include this page in the header of vbulletin, and echo $chatters in one of the templates. That's it.

How can I include this "displaychatusers.php" in every header?
I've tried to put them in phpinclude by adding a line of "include (./displaychatusers.php)" and it works only in forumdisply.php but showtread.php can't be viewed since then.

Thanks in adv.
Jisung

[PhotoGenie]

Just wondering. I saw the word refresh. I would like to have someway to see who's in chat but the refresh thing bothers me. Can you here the refresh clicks while you are in chat? If not I will install this and try it on 2.2.2 .. I just dont like that clicking sound from the refresh. Thanks

[PhotoGenie]

No clicking sound.. Great!!.. You have to wait on the cookie to clear to be shown as logged out of the chat. I found an alternative and that was to add a popup on exit to the frameset. Then I created another php file I named chat_logout.php ..

The frameset looks like this:

<html>
<head>
<title>Site Title.com</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

<!-- Begin
function leave() {
window.open('http://www.Your-Site.com/chat_logout.php','','toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no,height=204,width=700');
}
// End -->
</SCRIPT>
</head>

<frameset onUnload="leave()" rows="1,*" frameborder="NO" border="0" framespacing="0">
<frame name="topFrame" scrolling="NO" noresize src="mainchat_top.php" >
<frame name="mainFrame" src="main_chat.php">
</frameset>
<noframes><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">

</body></noframes>
</html>

The new php file looks like this:

<?php
require("global.php");
if( $bbuserid ) {

$DB_site->query("UPDATE user SET inchat='0' WHERE userid='$bbuserinfo[userid]'");
$DB_site->query("UPDATE user SET lastchatactivity=$ourtimenow WHERE userid='$bbuserinfo[userid]'");
} else {

} // end if
?>
<head>
<title>Chat Log-Out</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<BODY onLoad="setTimeout(window.close, 5000)"
</body>
</html>


The chat_logout.php is the pop up. The settings above are for 5 seconds. You can customize the body of the pop up to look like you want.. I made mine match my vb and it basically says that you have succesfully logged out of chat. The pop up above is blank. This logs you straight out of the chat with no waiting on cookies and will do me till I see a better solution.

[sk187]

im having the same problem as jisung

How do i include displaychatusers.php in the header

and isnt $chatters already echo'd later on in the hack.


Any way any help is appreciated.

[PhotoGenie]

Originally posted by sk187
im having the same problem as jisung

How do i include displaychatusers.php in the header

and isnt $chatters already echo'd later on in the hack.


Any way any help is appreciated.

It depends on where you want it to be.. Mine is at the bottom of my boards under private messages. I included mine in my forumhome_pmloggedin template but I wanted mine where it wasnt visible unless you are looged in. Guest dont see it. I just added this to the bottom of the template.

<tr id="cat">
<td bgcolor="#606096" colspan="6"><smallfont color="#FFF788"><b>Current Chatters </b></smallfont><smallfont color="#FFF788"></smallfont></td>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#F1F1F1" colspan="6"><smallfont>$chatters</smallfont></td>
</tr></tr>


in root/index.php I put:

require('./displaychatusers.php');


right under:

require('./global.php');

and thats all the changes I made to index.php.



the second problem I was having problems with was when I added the part to show chatters in threads. If chatters were in chat. It would add everything twice to the top of the threads Instead of looking like this:

(Moderated by: milo)
(Users Browsing this Forum: Dave)
(Users In Chat: Dave)

it looked like this:

(Moderated by: milo)
(Users Browsing this Forum: Dave)
(Users In Chat
(Users Browsing this Forum: Dave)
(Users In Chat: Dave)


.. I got mine fixed. If you have this problem just pm me and I'll tell you what I did.
Anyway, hope this helped you.

My chat is open to guest if you would like to check it out It will not show guest as logged in though