Let me just review a bit: My chatpopup does (as I had it) do the job -- it does keep my Who's Online up-to-date with those who are in the Chat Room, as planned.
The only problem is that it causes my regular Threads header.tmpl to appear in the chatpopup, which looks dumb and causes confusion to users.
If I could just find a way to not have the header.tmpl appear, I'd be laughing.
This line in my chatpopup seems to be needed and seems to work except for the header thang: $html -> send_header("Updater",$Cat,0,0,0,0,"");. Note that I'm clueless and have no clue what I'm doing.
Not sure. The problem with a traditional "chat" page is that once the java applet loads, it doesn't refresh the page. If the page doesn't refresh, they drop off the list after 10 minutes.
I can't really see any way around this. It'd be great if it were.
I saw something somewhere (I guess it was your DigiChat mod)? Where it opened the chatroom in a frame. Could you have a tiny "iframe" that refreshed - although my browser doesn't support iframes. Many do not. But I guess you could do the page in frames and have one of the frames refresh.
Just thinking out loud. So in theory it works.... but my theorys are sometimes wrong.
Might need to add modifying that on my threads to do list.
I have a tendancy to stay away from iframes as well, they just don't work across all browser platforms. I only recently went back to using DHTML because support for it is strong enough now.
You're right, refreshing the page would cause them to drop off line. I noticed that the who's online page will auto refresh. I wonder if there is a way to make an element on the chat page (say just a one pixel transperant gif) refresh so that the entire page does not reload, but the who's online mechanism "sees" the refresh?
Yeah, me too... I hate popups too.. but my users wanted to see who was in chat.
On my site... I use the who's online box at the top of every page.... and I made it say below that, in bold: "There are 5 users in chat. Join them!" so that has really helped chat traffic.
I don't know of many browsers that don't support iframes. I have IE, Netscape, and Mozilla and they all support it. I had an iframe on my site for a long time. Then again I am always getting latest versions etc.
[]On my site... I use the who's online box at the top of every page.... and I made it say below that, in bold: "There are 5 users in chat. Join them!" so that has really helped chat traffic. [/]
Josh that would be just brilliant. My users have also been begging for that.
It would make a pretty neat package -- Dalantech's integrated Chat with your mod's -- for those of us who are trying to make chat a serious aspect of our sites.
I really appreciate the work you all are doing. Personally, I just learned that PHP isn't a steak sauce, so I'm a ways off from being able to contribute much!
OK - let me post this mod here until it's ready for "prime time". I pulled the code from my site.... but I've got some other things going on. So I haven't tested it.
It should work fine... but somebody test it and let me know.
For this to work, the chat page must be named "chat.php" as it looks for the entry of "chat" in the online table.
If the chat page is named 'chatroom.php' then you will need to modify my code to search for 'chatroom' instead.
This adds the number of users chatting to the top of each page on your site, and offers a link to the chatroom (chat.php) - again, if your chat file is named something else, you'll need to edit the link in the nav bar templates.
I have modified this slightly. See changes below..
I changed this part of the ubbt.inc.php (2 places)
$ChatNumber .= "$tbopen<tr><td class="lighttable"><br /><div align="center"><b>There is also $ChatOnline User in the <a href="{$config['phpurl']}/jchat.php">Chat Room</a>. Go and Join Them!</b></div></td></tr>$tbclose<br />";
to this...
$ChatNumber .= "[$ChatOnline]";
and the ubbt_resg and unregistered.tmpl to this...
This will SIMPLY toss a number of chatters that are in the chat room via the page next to the chat link for simplicity. And nothing when none. Be aware that if they are using an outside client, this will not count those people.
Example at www.theddz.com, click on chat. But you need to be registered to watch it change.
Ahh, I also ran into this.. You have to change it in the config file AND the html I think. Email me and I can arrange a time to go over this with you in person individually.
I've changed it now in EVERY file where irc.black... is included. I deleted also ALL other server information so that only my wanted is in.
Within the archives in p.class the serverinfo was also in. I changed it also but same effect.
The applet is still trying to reach this %§"&$#§" server and not the one I want...
Then I found out that there is a small failure in the attachment here.
OPEN JCHAT.TMPL and you will see this <param name="ServerName1" value="irc.dal.net"> <param name="ServerName2" value="liberty.nj.us.dal.net"> <param name="ServerName3" value="typhoon.va.us.dal.net">
[]JoshPet said: Yeah, me too... I hate popups too.. but my users wanted to see who was in chat.
On my site... I use the who's online box at the top of every page.... and I made it say below that, in bold: "There are 5 users in chat. Join them!" so that has really helped chat traffic. [/]
Hey Josh, I would also like to have it. Can you send to me how you made this cause I finally managed to include the chat into my forum. (50$ )
I opened the chat window in one of my registered channels on irc.quakenet.org and now all the people who have a registered nick there can't connect if the nick is the same the use in the forum. Can I add a suffix to the Forumnames that this is working?
You get the same error when the nick used in the forum is too long for the irc. Any way to cut things?
I've updated the zip file in the first post to include the chatpopup.php file and a new jchat.php file that includes the script to call the popup window.
They should be able to connect, provided they are not already logged into the channel from another IRC application and they login to the channel once they connect.
[]Dalantech said: I've updated the zip file in the first post to include the chatpopup.php file and a new jchat.php file that includes the script to call the popup window. [/]
You've forgotten to delete the failure with the template file and the server names. See my above posting!!!
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It'd be great if it were.
But I guess you could do the page in frames and have one of the frames refresh. 
