My first mod, ported to 6.4
Here we go:
Name: Chat Mod
Description: Lets you chat with jIRC. It has full CP support, it's 100% wordletized, it automatically gets the nick of the user/GuestXXXXX (5 random digits) if it's a guest, replaces smilies with real smilies, shows how many people are currently chatting and even invites people to the chatroom (by Recent Visitors).
Demo:
http://www.lkworld.com Link:
ZIP File or MultiHack File Requirements: UBB™ 6.4.0 ,
jPilot License (unless you want to see an "unregistered" line after every line)
Number of downloads: [img]https://ubbdev.com/lk/num.php?s=chat64.zip,chat64.mhp[/img]
Special thanks to: Ryan Olson for Invitation Script, Brett (raiyan) for JavaScript idea, dj_rava for the Admin Command Buttons idea and Troy for MultiHack and supporting me all the way
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Screenshots:
Forum Summary ,
Chat Window ,
CP Note: if you have a license, you have to upgrade your license key -
http://www.jpilot.com/products/jirc/upgradekey.html in order to use this version. Everybody with illegal keys - don't upgrade to this version
LK, your file is missing all of the vars_wordlets_mods additions. You also have public_common.pl listed twice in the header.
hmm, you don't need wordlets_mods
Now you don't need wordlets_mods
lemme re-hack since it was stating that i needed items...
Word for word, line for line, still doesn't work...
http://www.promodtecnologies.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi Also, the control pannel wordlet still doesn't load
...
http://www.promodtecnologies.com/cgi-bin/ubb/chat.cgi - 500 ISE, you probably need to CHMOD it again
Edit: updated chat mod - not because of your problem, but because now the images in Instant Graemlins are in the correct folder, and in cp_vars_chat there is a note that you should upload to applet_images folder to add smilies..
One more update
(ubb_chat.cgi) - Sounds dropdown list now gets the info from the audio folder...
Thank you for porting it to 6.4
Now my problems:
You write:
---
***********************
* Open ultimatebb.cgi *
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Find:
=====
%template %vars_config
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This cannot be found. Instead I find:
[code][/code]For testing I insert after %vars_config . Seems to work.
Next Problem:
![[Linked Image]](http://home.snafu.de/van.dusen/chat.jpg)
There is something missing, but it works. You can enter the menu.
Last problem: My purchased key for 2.4x seems not working with this 2.7x Is this an issue of jpilot ? Must I update my key ?
Go to
http://www.jpilot.com/products/jirc/upgradekey.html to update your key...
About cp_common, did you overwrite your vars_chat.cgi? (you should do that
)
About ultimatebb.cgi, yer right...
Man, jpilot can be a pain lol... I have like 9 keys all for differant sites in my network, so simple upgrades like that can be a pain lol, especially if they charge.
The key update is free for current jPilot license holders
and...
quote:
Originally posted by LK:
Everybody with illegal keys - don't upgrade to this version
quote:
Originally posted by LK:
Go to http://www.jpilot.com/products/jirc/upgradekey.html to update your key...
I will do this after I get all needed hacks
Now I just install a test version.
quote:
[qb]
About cp_common, did you overwrite your vars_chat.cgi? (you should do that )
About ultimatebb.cgi, yer right...
[/qb]
I do a fresh hack on a fresh installed UBB 6.4 final release. It's my test board for try out the hacks. I will check all again. All vars_* are new.
lol, using the preview
nothin sais they can't roll it back, or even acquire a way of tweaking key issues ..
I get the same problem as Zarzal above where I just see a dash in the primary settings of cp, but I can go into it anyway.
When I save changes, I get
An error has occurred:
Undefined subroutine &main::set_vars_chat called at cp.cgi line 342.
Backtrace: cp.cgi:342 -> sub UBBCGI::Carp::die
Backtrace: Carp.pm:82 -> sub UBBCGI::Carp::fatalsToBrowser
Backtrace: Carp.pm:146 -> sub main::StandardHTML2
Backtrace: cp_lib.cgi:130 -> sub main::Tracer
I've done it more than once. I do have my key upgraded and have used the chat mod for quite a while.
Debbie, re-upload vars_chat.cgi and re-hack cp_lib.cgi...
I've done this 4 times now, to no avail. I do have on the newsfader and the strike mods.
I do the hack again. I update my key and it seems to work but I have the problem with teh control panel again:
There ist the label
chat missing and show only a '-' I think this can be fixed easy, but where ? The menu work and you can enter the selection.
Yeh, I had the same issue, I just updated the cp common wordlet to say "Chat Settings" as opposed to worrying about it being wordletalized lol...
OIC... To fix that problem:
[code][/code]Edit: ZIP/MHK files updated.
I do see the Chat Settings in CP now, but I still get the compile errors I show on the first page. I have been making changes by hand, and I have a huge chat occuring on 2/4 where I need rid of the buttons and for the background to not be black. I have no idea how to fix through CP since rehacking (very few changes here to do) does no good, and I think my problems are with some other file.
I'm in a hurry, so what can I do to get rid of the black and the buttons at
http://www.tropictravelonline.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=chat?
Does anyone else have many problems with their users being able to connect due to webchat.org's servers?
Just a thought. wouldn't it be a better think to that the chat mod onto a new level with thinks like this:
http://pino3.sourceforge.net/ The freeware chat server.
When I have done the hack for 6.4 and 6.5, I've had a problem with the invite list. Can someone please look at
http://www.tropictravelonline.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=newinvite and tell me if they knew what I was doing wrong? I would really appreciate it!
I notice a new Problem. I use the last avail chat hack on UBB V6.5. I take a look on my traffic analyzer and see chat.cgi on the first place of hit's:
# Hits KBytes URL
1 13554 5.87% 435 0.06% /cgi-bin/chat.cgi
2 10855 4.70% 306571 40.53% /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi
With an opld version on ubb 6.2 there was no such much hits. Is this a side effect of the java scripting for the 'who is chatting' display ?
I think I'm going to remove the Chat Mod invitation thing in the next version, cause that's probably what makes the most hits... And also the same routins are available in the Instant Message mod..
lets send the invitation to the PM of the user. With UBB 6.5 he will get a notice from the board itself on the main pages and maybe an eMail as notice from system.
This way takes a little bit longer time but will lower the load.
This was asked in version 6.3, but nobody answered it on the boards. I've used the chat mod since version 6. I have licensed jIRC and have the new key.
I am on version 6.5 and did port the chat mod, but I had various problems. I got rid of the - in the control panel on my own and various other issues. However, now I get the error below:
Cannot join channel: Only registered, identified users can create channels.
What do I need to do to resolve this? Any help would be appreciated.
Only a Registered Member of the Chat Server, a Founder or a SOp can start a chat now.
Once you are logged in type:
/join #
For mine, this is what I have to type:
/join #catcherman.com
because the name of my chatroom is catcherman.com.
quote:
Originally posted by LK:
OIC... To fix that problem:
[code][/code]Edit: ZIP/MHK files updated.
This didn't fix the problem in my control panel... could it be something else?
Also, there are two buttons that aren't coming up correctly when you go to my chat page:
Click to view .
It's the Connect and another button. Any ideas?
does this hack work with 6.5 too?
I am pretty sure it does, according to multihack, everything's fine
Am I correct in saying that a forum member who has not registered his forum username as an IRC nickname cannot start a chat, i.e. use this chat hack?
Sorry all the negatives there, can I put it like this: do you have to register your forum username as a IRC nickname to use this chat hack? I've registered mine, but I thought that I could use this to allow members (of the ubb) to start a chat using my details 'hidden' in the chat configuration so that they would not need to register usernames as nicknames.
If so, I can't see many of my members bothering to do this...
quote:
Originally posted by catcherman:
Only a Registered Member of the Chat Server, a Founder or a SOp can start a chat now.
Once you are logged in type:
/join #
For mine, this is what I have to type:
/join #catcherman.com
because the name of my chatroom is catcherman.com.
I am on 6.5 and have been using the chat mod for several releases. I have used it successfully on 6.5 a couple of weeks ago but am currently getting java.lang.class not found. Exception: chat class. Any ideas?
quote:
Originally posted by spiffy:
Am I correct in saying that a forum member who has not registered his forum username as an IRC nickname cannot start a chat, i.e. use this chat hack?
You are correct in saying that. It's an unfortunate new feature they added to the webchat.org servers. If I, or one of my moderators, is not there to open a chat now it does not open. And it's not easy for many people from our community to understand the commands necessary to open the chatroom.
One other problem I've had is that not all .au files will play in the chatroom. I have some files that I know are not corrupt but nothing happens when I use them in the chat room. I wonder why...
Can anyone answer my question above? I seem to have the class files there. Hmmm.
I also got it some times but I can't figure why..
quote:
You are correct in saying that. It's an unfortunate new feature they added to the webchat.org servers.
Thanks, Catcherman. This is indeed unfortunate as it renders this hack virtually unusable for most forums I'd imagine. This is a real shame as it was a great hack and I devoted a lot of time integrating it.
I wouldn't say that, you could just replace the server names from webchat to dalnet or something
That's right, LK, I almost forgot about that. Can you give us a list of the other servers (URLs) that would work with this hack?
What I've don is create an imaginary SOp user called Gunther. My members know who he is and that he's just there to keep the room open. Since I have two computers in my office I just log on the the chat with one as Gunther early in the day and leave him there so the room is open. We get a kick out of Gunther.
http://www.mirc.co.uk/servers.ini all the URLs after "SERVER:" should work... (for example the first one there is "irc.dal.net")
Many thanks for this LK and CatcherMan. I didn't want to seem negative, I was just a bit frustrated as it took me a while to get to grips with this. Will give it a try...
The Show URL button in the chat doesn't work except for the person that hits it. It used to open a new window with the link for all users in the chatroom, but it's not doing that anymore.
Any help?
I still am not past that java.lang.classnot found exception. When I go to the chat, it doesn't pop up the applet anymore like it used to, it just says the above.
anybody try this on 6.5 ?
Can anyone please explain why the "Show URL" button doesn't work anymore?
If you click on it and enter a URL into the pop-up window it's supposed to open a blank page and go to that URL for all users in the chat, but it no longer does that. It only opens the new window for the user that submits the request.
And, yes, it works on 6.5 sixpax12.
p.s. I have triple checked my Control Panel settings. They are set to allow this operation.
After some digging yesterday, with LK and dj_rava, we came to realize that the problem I mentioned above is a bug in the Java applet.
I contacted JPilot about it and here is my reply:
quote:
hello, thanks for the feedback, yes i can confirm it is bug in the applet
causing these problems. I will get a fix out there as soon as we can.
Thanks for your help LK and dj_rava. We'll get to the bottom of this.
appearantly jPilot did hear BOTH your requests and has already fixed them:
http://www.jpilot.com/products/jirc/preview/ quote:
- fix /showurl not showing up in other applet client bug
- fix bug that a very long URL string is not clickable
Sweet!!!
Now, tell me again, how do I make this new version available to all of my chat members?
you put the "classes" folder on your noncgi dir, and overwrite all files necessary. (some files aren't overwritten, like your personal sounds)
quote:
Originally posted by LK:
you put the "classes" folder on your noncgi dir, and overwrite all files necessary. (some files aren't overwritten, like your personal sounds)
:
I followed your above instructions with no problems, but I don't see anything different in the chat room - am I suppose to see anything different?
It's only bugfixes, thus you shouldn't see anything new
Thanks LK for all of your assistance.
I'm in your chatroom now and the bugs aren't fixed, although it seems like you did upload the new applet (by the way, some smilies are in the UBB default way, like "
")
Also I suggest you in your Chat Settings (in the control panel)'s "Username" field type something short (like "cman"), cause the IRC server is making problems.
Edit: I checked in my board and the fixes do work there... (2.7.1 beta ofcourse) I compared and you have the same version as I have for all 3 applet files.. very odd...
It's working. Maybe you checked too early.
I have noticed a problem still with hyperlinked text. It won't always make a URL into a clickable link.
It's working when I choose no color/bold, but I tried using blue with bold and it didn't work..
I see what you mean... but if I put a space before it when I type a url, even with the formatted text, it works. Strange. It must be the embedded formatting code that does that. I'll send another email to JPilot.
I got the chat up and going, but no link on the ubb page. Can somebody help?
http://www.hallsofavalon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi
Re-modify public_forum_summary.pl. if you have JC Templates, make sure you modify that template in noncgi/Templates/JCTemplates folder, not just in noncgi/Templates.
it says in the instructions that ubb_forum.cgi is modified. I don't see the instructions on what code to modify. is this why mine isn't working?
thanks LK..... one more problem... it only says chat... nothing else.
Your's says "Nobody is in the chat room"
Again here is the link.... sorry to be such a pain.
http://www.hallsofavalon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi
Young dude, I really need more info about "not working", and no, it's not because of that...
HOA,
http://www.hallsofavalon.com/cgi-bin/chat.cgi?f=summary - it gives me 500 ISE. check your server's error log to see the problem...
It must have been a one time thing, I checked it several times.... it's working fine.
[Fri Jul 11 15:44:03 2003] [error] [client ***.***.***.***] Premature end of script headers: public_html/cgi-bin/chat.cgi
I found it now..... I edited out your IP.
Found a couple of others while browsing
File does not exist: public_html/UBB/classes/Chat$COMClassObject.class
File does not exist:
public_html/UBB/classes/ChatBeanInfo.class
hmm... it doesn't help me
what's your first line of ultimatebb.cgi?
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Whoops! If you see this message in your browser, your web hosting provider
# has not properly mapped the .cgi file extension to Perl.
#
# Please contact them for more information. Mapping .cgi is easy for both
# Unix and NT servers, and usually only takes a few seconds.
The first line of coding is:
BEGIN { # get our modules directory set up
($0 =~ m!(.*)(\|/)[^/\]+!) && unshift(@INC, $1, "$1$2Modules");
$| = 1;
}
END {
# print "
" . UBBCGI::escapeHTML($warnhandler) . "
";
$filehandle && ref($filehandle) && $filehandle->cleanup();
Okay, so it's more complicated
(I thought maybe it's #!/usr/bin/local/perl)
usually when it says that error it means that it doesn't print anything, but I can't understand why in this case... I can't solve it without having FTP access to your server...
I trust you, if you wanted to take a look LK. I could PM you the username and password.
good... but I suggest that when you give someone the FTP username/password, change the password before you hand it to him and change it back after he's done working on your site...
Thanks LK...
I had no problem installing the hack (MultiHack rocks!
)
However...I purchased a license key last night and I went to the upgrade page and entered it and it and I guess because it was so new I didn't see any changes to it.
Now then the new key works on my original chat room (version 2.7.1)
http://www.ronaldreagan.com/jirc/chat.html But my UBB chatroom says that it's unregistered.
http://www.ronaldreagan.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=chat What could I be doing wrong?
------------------EDIT-----------------------Nevermind...I figured it out.
My license key was newer than the applet files that came with the hack...DOH!
Hi, I am trying to install Chat in 6.5.0 and have upgraded my jPilot key but it still says ## evaluation copy. My license key is:
LicenseKey=v3:turboford.org:704262158794110903989942802005867294711677549563314...more numbers you don't get
Do I use the entire key or just the numbers? I email jPilot and they weren't much help.
Thanks
anything after LicenseKey= I believe.
quote:
Originally posted by caroth:
Hi, I am trying to install Chat in 6.5.0 and have upgraded my jPilot key but it still says ## evaluation copy. My license key is:
LicenseKey=v3:turboford.org:704262158794110903989942802005867294711677549563314...more numbers you don't get
Do I use the entire key or just the numbers? I email jPilot and they weren't much help.
Thanks Read my post above yours.
It's because your license key is newer than the applet files that came with the original hack.
Dowload the 2.7.1 (beta -solves several problems) and upload the new files to your server (overwriting the ones that came with the hack).
Here is the zip file that contains the new 2.7.1 applet files to go with yur new license key.
http://www.jpilot.com/products/jirc/preview/jIRC_preview_2.71.zip
Hi, I have the problem that the chat-server says, may IP is not allowed.... what can I do?
Thanks
d-talk
Thanks for the reply. I downloaded the newest production release before posting and it did not work. I did not try the beta, I am not much of a beta guy when I paid $99 for the license...
Anyway, I tried it and the beta does work! Thanks!
Chris
quote:
Originally posted by caroth:
Thanks for the reply. I downloaded the newest production release before posting and it did not work. I did not try the beta, I am not much of a beta guy when I paid $99 for the license...
Anyway, I tried it and the beta does work! Thanks!
Chris
Ehhhhhhh?...$99 dollars??
![[Linked Image]](http://www.ronaldreagan.com/ubb/graemlins/raisedeyebrow.gif)
I only paid $49 for mine and the only reason I did was it's supposed to be a lifetime license.
![[Linked Image]](http://www.ronaldreagan.com/ubb/graemlins/popcorn.gif)
Also if you read on the fourth page of this post, the 2.7.1 Beta fixes some known problems...so in this case "beta is betta"
https://ubbdev.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=33;t=000019;p=4
I believe it was a mistake, it still costs $49.99.
Will the chat mod work on 6.6? I never got it working on 6.5, so I am hoping for this version, as I have been w/o it for awhile
I know LK has it working on 6.6, but I'm not sure what kind of modification it would require to get it to work there
Actually, I haven't even started working on a 6.6 Control Panel for chat mod... it took me ages to get it to work on 6.0's CP, and 6.6's one is more difficult to build new attributes on, and also jIRC 2.7.1 has more features than 2.5.1 which was used when the first chat mod was out...
Debbie, btw, the reason your chat mod didn't work (I think) is because of a problem with irc.webchat.org... try to use another irc server (like irc.dal.net)..
I did try irc.dal.net, but I think I had already messed something up trying to make it work, I don't know. Now that I went to 6.6, I am hoping you will get a new one out sometimes. My motherboard fried, and I got most of my hard drive contents, but I don't think I have my jirc license, so I will have to beg the owner w/ my email address
Just from a user perspective, I can't say I am overly fond of the new control panel.
LK, thanks for all you do. I really appreciate it.
So, now that 6.6 is "official", will you be migrating this mod>