FlashChat Integration

Tyrsson · January 23, 2011, 12:36:51 PM

Oh, and I may try to add support for simple portal and portamx blocks in the next release just to make life easier.

Sakurachan · January 27, 2011, 03:06:32 PM

Needs to be updated.

Kindred · January 27, 2011, 06:00:43 PM

did you even bother to read one page back?

Quote from: Tyrsson™ on January 18, 2011, 03:57:53 PM
It will not be for RC4, but there will be an update for 2.0 final.

lawnmowertech · February 01, 2011, 11:45:44 AM

2.0 Final when will that be ?

grynmoors · February 18, 2011, 03:06:39 AM

Here's something you can do. I have it on 2.0 rc5 and I use Simple Portal. I created a page with Simple Portal and I put the FlashChat in an iframe on that page. I then used "custom top menu" mod to make a link to the chat (although doing it manually to the regular menu area is always an option).

The only thing I really care about, at this point, is what code would I need to use to show how many people are in the chat ? I'd like to have that showing somewhere on the site (like on the front page in the block that has the users online or something like that).

Tyrsson · March 10, 2011, 10:58:21 AM

When I can find the time I may code a simple portal block (will have to look up the doc info on that) so that you can display a list of users in a block anywhere that SP allows a block to be shown. You can also create a php block and put the code in that, If I get time this evening I will post the code for that.

NoFeaR / NFSMW · April 12, 2011, 04:07:31 AM

How do you guys get is to work on rc4?
When i try to use the Manual Install i get this error

QuoteAn Error Has Occurred!
Sorry, but this modification does not appear to be compatible with the selected version.

Harvester · April 18, 2011, 11:49:01 AM

Any chance that someone will be updating this mod, or at least create a version, so that it will integrate FlashChat 6.0.8 with SMF 1.1.13?

My newest server runs php 5.3.5 and FC 4.7 doesnt work with it at all it seems.

FC 6 is pretty awesome compared to FC 4.7

I would love if someone could help get this accomplished.

Tyrsson · April 19, 2011, 01:50:59 AM

I will be updating it, and have already started updating the code for most of my mods, however, I will NOT be coding it for the 1.x line of smf, only for smf 2.0.

Harvester · April 19, 2011, 11:06:47 AM

I would actually be careful of this chat program. I was looking for a solution for this and sadly I must report that my flashchat 6.0.8 was compromised yesterday. Somehow someone was able to get into and remove me from admin and kick and ban other members out of the room.

Needless to say I deleted my copy of FC and will not be installing it again.

Tyrsson · April 19, 2011, 12:15:23 PM

And that is the very reason it takes so long to do this type of mod, you have to review the code and make sure there is no holes, I will check into it and will post back when I figure out what the issue is.

mibodega · April 21, 2011, 07:11:59 PM

I bought this Mod and I have 1 question, Is it compatible with SMF 2.0 RC5?

Kindred · April 21, 2011, 09:41:33 PM

bought? The mod for integration is free, as far as I know... and again, as far as I know.. no, this mod will not work with 2.0RC5 at the moment.

That being said, Flashchat itself worked with 2.0RC3, so it should continue to work with 2.0RC5... just no in-board integration (like a menu item or "who is in chat" section on the board index)

Tyrsson · April 21, 2011, 11:26:27 PM

The Mod is free, although I have not had time to complete upgrading it, and as you can see from the previous post by Harvester, the mod will be upgraded, however, the question whether it will be updated to work with the new version of flashchat, well.... The security questions will have to be sorted first and as flashchat will not allow me modifying the source code or distributing any modification to their code, and I can not, and will not, open a hole in smf via the integration with flashchat I can only wait and see if the issue will be addressed by tufat (which I doubt).

Angie on Dialysis · May 04, 2011, 07:43:10 AM

Quote from: Tyrsson™ on April 21, 2011, 11:26:27 PM
The Mod is free, although I have not had time to complete upgrading it, and as you can see from the previous post by Harvester, the mod will be upgraded, however, the question whether it will be updated to work with the new version of flashchat, well.... The security questions will have to be sorted first and as flashchat will not allow me modifying the source code or distributing any modification to their code, and I can not, and will not, open a hole in smf via the integration with flashchat I can only wait and see if the issue will be addressed by tufat (which I doubt).

I look forward to when it eventually will be combatible with the latest version of FlashChat as I have SMF 1.1.13 but our host upgraded php so we were forced to also have to go to the latest version of FlashChat. At that time the integration broke. We didn't know what we were doing wrong. The host tech support kept saying it was something we were doing wrong..

Tyrsson · May 05, 2011, 06:02:40 PM

That issue can be worked around, as far as the php needing to be upgraded. The chat app itself does not handle backwards compatibility very well iirc. Its been awhile since I looked at it. I will try to check into that in the next day or so and see if I can post the edits to fix it.

Sandmansa · May 05, 2011, 09:26:01 PM

Quote from: Tyrsson™ on May 05, 2011, 06:02:40 PM
That issue can be worked around, as far as the php needing to be upgraded. The chat app itself does not handle backwards compatibility very well iirc. Its been awhile since I looked at it. I will try to check into that in the next day or so and see if I can post the edits to fix it.

I really would appreciate any insites you may have.

Angie on Dialysis · May 05, 2011, 10:56:25 PM

Quote from: Tyrsson™ on May 05, 2011, 06:02:40 PM
That issue can be worked around, as far as the php needing to be upgraded. The chat app itself does not handle backwards compatibility very well iirc. Its been awhile since I looked at it. I will try to check into that in the next day or so and see if I can post the edits to fix it.

Sandman is the one who helps me with my site which I need this for. He hasn't had much luck and any help or insights you can give will be great! Look forward to the edits when you post them! Thx

Kat9119 · May 06, 2011, 04:05:55 PM

Flashchat is nice and pretty looking, but a royal pain in the butt when it comes to integrating within SMF.

I haven't upgraded to the latest chat from 5 (which was discontinued but works perfectly fine for me) because you can't have the menu items of how many is in chat and who's in chat. When I did try to upgrade and lost that menu my members did nothing but complain and rarely people ever even went into the chat room because they couldn't see who was there.

When I downgraded Flashchat to 4, or upgraded to 6 I had no menu and my users kept getting kicked out randomly from the chat room. There was nothing but issues, and no support. The Flashchat support team is really lacking. You almost never get help for anything there.

Oh and forget banning people there. You can change their password & email address, ban them via SMF, and they still aren't banned. Heck you can DELETE their username and they can still get in. The only way to ban is by IP (if their IP doesn't change) and sticking that in an .htaccess file within the directory that you have the chat installed.

Its a shame there isn't another sort of chat that is as "nice" looking as this one, that can have the menu, cause I'd switch in a heartbeat.

Angie on Dialysis · May 07, 2011, 04:45:10 AM

Quote from: Kat9119 on May 06, 2011, 04:05:55 PM
Flashchat is nice and pretty looking, but a royal pain in the butt when it comes to integrating within SMF.

I haven't upgraded to the latest chat from 5 (which was discontinued but works perfectly fine for me) because you can't have the menu items of how many is in chat and who's in chat. When I did try to upgrade and lost that menu my members did nothing but complain and rarely people ever even went into the chat room because they couldn't see who was there.

When I downgraded Flashchat to 4, or upgraded to 6 I had no menu and my users kept getting kicked out randomly from the chat room. There was nothing but issues, and no support. The Flashchat support team is really lacking. You almost never get help for anything there.

Oh and forget banning people there. You can change their password & email address, ban them via SMF, and they still aren't banned. Heck you can DELETE their username and they can still get in. The only way to ban is by IP (if their IP doesn't change) and sticking that in an .htaccess file within the directory that you have the chat installed.

Its a shame there isn't another sort of chat that is as "nice" looking as this one, that can have the menu, cause I'd switch in a heartbeat.

Wow sounds like you had more issues than us! Yeah it no longer says how many are in chat but my members aren't complaining about that because they are just glad chat is back as I said it might never be lol! I would not have upgraded neither but my host gave me no choice. My host tried to say our errors were because they upgraded php and our chat was not compatible. Turns out it was but the integration mod wasn't .. I guess ..

Well it was fine til our host said we had to upgrade. Then when we couldn't get things working with the old one our host went ahead and put in the new (6) chat himself .. so yeah .. we had no choice. So now we are looking toward the day when integration will be updated and we can use it again.

Don't really want to use Ajax even though it seems to be easier to make it work. We paid for FlashChat and kinda want to use what we paid.

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