Integrates phpFreeChat into Vanilla. Install is extremely easy (no database needed); you should be able to unzip, enable, and go.

PFC is much easier to use if you also install Set List.

PFC is part of the Vanilla Friends project.

I believe one of the board admins will be able to upload a larger file for you squirrel, just ask them ;)

Okay, I can get it down under 275 kB without sacrificing any functionality. If any admin can help me upload this, I would be grateful. Thanks!

Upload the file somewhere else and provide a 'full version' download link meanwhilst. PS - cool! I was about to request this someday soon anyway :D I'll try this out later.

I read something in the phpFreeChat install instructions that says on some servers you need to CHMOD 777 all of the phpFreeChat files and directories. You might try that.

Works perfectly. Thanks.

Would there be a way to make it so only Mods/Admins could create rooms? And disable the X button on the rooms already open. I just want to limit them to the same rooms but still be able to PM eachother if necessary.

Also would love to have a room only visable to the Mods/Admins, or at least password protected.

But... I think this basicly has to do with the chats script itself and you might not be able to help.. ^_^

Edit: Oh, also when you don't have a warning/comment/notify thingy it still shows the yellow box and red icon. Anyway to remove that?

if I install phpfreechat individually it works fine. but when I try and integrate it i still get the problems

This is awesome! But is there a way to show who is currently in the chat room say in the Panel or something? Ideally I would like a small chat ability in the Panel viewable from all pages, but I guess this is not possible.

I've uploaded the full ver to the addons site...you might need to give me a nod whenever you release a new version though..i'm not sure.

Rolled the version and updated the description to match the new source.

skube, What does your code look like?

It should be as easy as this:
if ( @include_once($Configuration['PfcPath'] . 'src/pfcinfo.class.php') ) {
$PfcInfo = new pfcInfo(md5($Context->Configuration['APPLICATION_TITLE']));
$PfcUsers = $PfcInfo->getOnlineNick(NULL);
}

It uses the name of the user in the current session as the nick. No interaction with the DB necessary.

Yeesh, that sucks. Maybe you can hack pfccontainer.class.php and either comment out line 661 or put in some '@' to suppress the warnings? It's ugly, I know.

Maybe this is one of the things that needs fixing for their 1.0-final release.

Commenting out line 661 works, but what does that line do anyway?

Any luck on getting the announcement box removed when there is nothing to announce? ^_^

But so far its worked perfectly, no real problems other then that. I'd still like to be able to not allow regular members to open new rooms or close the ones that are default.

Duh... ^_^

Thanks for that. I really should pay more attention to the script.

Yeah, I like the current users in the chat list... But would it be possible to add like a little icon to there name in the "Whos Online" extension? That would be swell.

this is a nice idea. maybe you can do it with nuggets?

I edited the code and got the Chat tab working also with guest config option, just add this code before the: "// Don't make changes below this line." on line 23 of the default.php file


// Add a link to the chat page at the top bar (keep in mind guest permissions)
$Context->Dictionary['Chat'] = 'Chat';
//Allow guests? 1 for yes 0 for no
$eChatConfig['AllowGuests'] = '0';

if(isset($Menu) && $Context->Session->UserID > 0 && $eChatConfig['AllowGuests'] == 0) {
$Menu->AddTab($Context->GetDefinition('Chat'), $Context->GetDefinition('Chat'), GetUrl($Configuration, 'extension.php', '', '', '', '', 'PostBackAction=PFC'), $Attributes = '', $Position = '50', $ForcePosition = '50');
}
elseif(isset($Menu) && $eChatConfig['AllowGuests'] == 1) {
$Menu->AddTab($Context->GetDefinition('Chat'), $Context->GetDefinition('Chat'), GetUrl($Configuration, 'extension.php', '', '', '', '', 'PostBackAction=PFC'), $Attributes = '', $Position = '50', $ForcePosition = '50');
}



Its working on my site, but it is displayed only for registered users.

If you want it to be accessible for all your users, including unregistered, change
$eChatConfig['AllowGuests'] = '0';
to
$eChatConfig['AllowGuests'] = '1';

repeated post...sorry!

one last bump...

I've found on my site that you cannot use a single-quote when you are typing. If I go directly to the install of PFC, and not through Vanilla, it works fine.

I got the same as zovall. I even looked at some of the internal code of phpFreeChat, and nothing jumped out at me. It looks like 90% of this extension creates a new phpFreeChat Object (which, in layman's terms, is the chat window you see). So whatever variables are being passed, they must be read differently from FINAL and BETA 11.

However, even knowing that, I couldn't hack a fix. I've never worked much with Object Oriented PHP though, I prefer procedural. So that's one strike against me hacking either phpFreeChat or the PFC extension.

Uploaded version 1 of PFC.

Includes the 1.0-final release of phpFreeChat, which now works properly (some paths had changed between 1.0-beta11 and 1.0-final). Sorry for the delay.