Yes Thank You. I have used and licensed JPilot since my UBB days when I used LK's awesome hack. For 50 bucks ( I think that what it is ) to register its priced just right.
Yeah I did not take that into consideration. You could also set autostart to false and guests would still be able to enter a name. Your users would still have their names automatically. I tested your addition and it works flawlessly so you can of course also leave autostart on. Guests will be logged in as guest1 guest2 guest3 etc.
Attached is the updated chat file to account for guests
dimopoulos has the code posted to pass the variables to digichat. It should not matter where the chat is hosted as long as the variables are showing the correct paths. I posted this code as more people use Jpilot since it is easy to use. Also there is a big benefit to using Jpilot versus owning their software for 50.00 bucks or you can use digichat for 749.00 if you have up to 100 users. If you have over 100 users it will be 1249.00. Digichat is a wonderful product full of features. However most people can not see paying those high of fees.
posted by Gregori: *lol* I just read on Digi-Chats site that on a hosted system, they will take care of the full integration to any user login system!
For the prices they charge I would hope so!! Or you can come to wonderful places like this and get the code and needed and tips to intergrate it yourself.
I am running a quite awesome chat software here..... It's superior to DigiChat but also more expensive..... Problem is that it's written in C and not using a mysql backend. So I may never be able to intertwine the two......Oh well...Not gettin' rid of this chat software.....
Some people read their stars..... I choose to write my own
Too much! I know the people on my site love the chatrooms though..... 'course that's what the site is......stormchat.... But seems like the boards get about as much use as chat....
posted by omegatron: God love em Storm if people have the money for Digichat or such let em go at it. Thats a whole lot of clams there.
C Hmm sound interesting. Integration issues are always the surge of existence.
Some people read their stars..... I choose to write my own
Pretty cool... except after each post I had to scrolll back down to the bottom of the screen. Looked alot like JustDave's shout box from the front page here. Sorta HTML based chat.
That's the embed, which actually works well for chatting as you use the forum. At the end of every post or thread you read, there it is waiting for input. It will open in a window if you click the upper right icon or "launch a window" text.
It does things that aren't obvious like informing you of private messages, and linking usernames to profiles for anonymous users, but "send a private message" if logged in. They even embed it in static HTML pages.
[]I have searched through the net to find the best chat software. By the word best I mean:
Browser independent
Plethora of features (images, themes, customization)
Transparent to users
Light on the server
All the chats mentioned above work either with a refresh of the chat page or they require components to be installed in the end users' computers.
I have found though a product from Digi-Net (www.digi-net.com) called Digi-Chat which gives you all the above features. Make no mistake though it is expensive. The minimum that you are looking to pay is around 700 GBP for the Pro version (max 100 users).
I managed to integrate the two using knowledge obtained from this forum and especially from the Mark All Read hack (tought me how to include a java script on a link) and suggestions by JustDave, Gardener and JoshPet. Credits to you guys and thanks.
This is what happens: A new link appears for the registered users. (Chat). When the user clicks on it a new window appears with specific coordinates, no links, no address bar, not resizable. That window opens the chat.php that I have created and using the main.inc.php queries the database for specific fields (all in the users table) and passes them in the java applet. I even modified the table by adding a new field which holds the chat icon for every user. The only thing remaining now is to add a relevant section in the user preferences... <img src="/threads/php/images/icons/wink.gif" alt="" />
If anyone wants the code I will be more than happy to attach it, but bare in mind that it is specific to the DigiChat product.
Also if my post is considered to by advertisement please feel free to delete the offensive sections.
Warm regards
Nikos [/]
I´m about to buy the hosted DigiChat solution (Pro-200) and integrate it with UBBT 6.2. Do your posted integration files work with the new 6.2?
I have pjirc running on my site now. I like it much better then Jpilot and its FREE!!! I didn’t integrate it in threads, though that would be easy, but I don't see a point for that since people who chat are usually also browsing the board. They prefer to have the chat in a separate window. To have the username inserted in the chat would also be no problem, but since I use a channel on a big network the chances of someone else having registered the same name are fairly high and the chat script would then have to add a _or- to the username and automaticly rty logging in again. For that my php knowledge is not good enough :-))) I have it running at http://chat.sat4all.com but you can easily open it in a new (small) "pop-up" window as well. I have that in my drop down menu at www.sat4all.com but because of some problems with the server mysql is not running and therefore the menu will not be displayed right now.
With jpilot, when I had it part of the site, it would automatically take the username and prefix it with say NLUK- in my case, that way it was highly unlikely that anyone else would have the same username - therefore usera could easily recognise the users of the chatroom, because of the common usernames. Not sure if omegatron's mod above does this - but I know the old UBB one did - and to be honest I have yet to add it since changing to threads
The file above does pass the boards username to the chat program. Now like any program if there is another Omegatron on the chat server I would be renamed. However with the usernames of my board I have never seen anyone get renamed.
That automatically happens if you set that up in the chatroom. Any chat room I create automatically sees my as the founder. You can also set autoop status to anybody you want but that is normal IRC procedures. There is no hack involved.
I too have registered Jpilot and my users love it. Since the computer geeks can use mIRC or something to connect to it, even the less computer savvy people can still chat
Its really great, the past month or so we've had almost nightly "chat-fests" with 10-20 users, and it is a great time.
I have chat on my site, but it is run by chatblazer. Does this constitute irc or is this something different?
I just switched servers and when I try and login it says, "cannot connect to chat server". The web host does not allow irc so I thought that may be why. ???
I haven't been able to get ahold of my guy to see what the deal is so I was just curious.
If anyone is regsitering jpilot - be very careful of the domain name that you register it under, as AFAIK you cannot change it afterwards - therefore if you are currently planning on a change of domain, hold off registering jpilot until you have your new domain in place.
[]Thankfully one of my users runs a server. Got us up and running until i can get IRC installed or hire someone to do it. [/]
One of my users set up an irc server just for my site, and using omegatron's chat.php file I set it up as the first server in the search order. Works great!
For $50 the price is hard to beat. I got my registration code today
To answer your question no I haven't integrated it with 6.2, although I don't think that it would he difficult.
I will be getting my new server set up tomorrow and I will be planning my move within the next two weeks. During this time I will indeed set up this modification for 6.2 and post it here.
My chat.php page updates my who's online page as "chat". I use the Who's online at the top of each page. So I set it up to tell how many people are in chat.
Then, because they will drop off the who's online list after 10 minutes, I made a little pop-up window that pops up behind the chat window. That little pop up refreshes every 9 minutes, thus keeping them showing as "in chat" until they close the window.
I'm currently testing the following software packages: Unreal 3.2 IRC Server Cygnus IRC Services (Registration of Nicks and Channels) OperServ (for doing serverwide bans and some stats) EIRC (Open-Source chat client - java based)
I currently run a normal irc server + irc services. Users can connect via Java-Applet or via mIRC. They can register their Chatnicks so that nobody else can use them. Unfortunately, the db of the chat and ubb.Threads can't exchange any data.
Cygnus Services offer a webfrontend (php) to read and write data to the chatserver db.
It should be possible to modify the forum adduser script, to register the username on the irc-server aswell. It should also be possible to modify the Java-Applet so that the users are logged in with their forum-username.
I use Sigmachat (java) for my need (inexpensive, feature-filled) and I have figured out how to pass the username variable for auto-login, but how does one decipher the password variable into plain text?
If the java applet sees an authorized password, it will give that user admin rights, otherwise they are just a normal user.
BTW, you can check out this great off-site chat app and other cool comms apps at http://raidersoft.com
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at the moment - but expanding all the time....) 
But I will be switching and hoping to integrate Jpilot to my site. 
