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[Chris]

vBulletin 3.x Official Integration & Authentication Product

Product Info
Name: AddonChat Official Integration Product
Product ID: addonchat
Version: 3.8.7
Author: AddonInteractive (http://www.addoninteractive.com/)
Compatibility: vBulletin 3.x

Overview
This extension allows you to fully integrate a AddonChat Free, Professional, Professional PLUS or Enterprise Java™ Chat Room with your vBulletin 3.8 forum. This script provides basic integration for AddonChat Free and Professional customers. Remote authentication (the ability to secure access to your chat room using your vBulletin username/passwords) is available for Pro+/Enterprise customers, as well as a Who's Chatting feature.

This is not an update to the previous v3.x release (product id: ac80_37). This is an entirely new plugin based on the v4.x plugin. This module will not work on vBulletin 4.x or higher, please visit: http://forums.addoni...n-4-Integration for vBulletin 4.x integration.

Requirements

• vBulletin 3.x (3.8 or 3.7 recommended)
  
• AddonChat Free, Professional PLUS, or Enterprise, or AddonChat Professional with the Remote (HTTP) Authentication System. You may register for a AddonChat account at www.addonchat.com. A Professional PLUS or Enterprise account is recommended to take advantage of advanced features.
  
• (optional, but recommended) PHP with allow_url_fopen directive enabled in your php.ini file or the PHP CURL extension. This is required to download the Who's Chatting list from AddonChat servers.

What's new?

• Completely re-written, based on new 4.x version.
  
• Updated to support RAS (Remote Authentication System) v2.1 providing extremely fine grain control over user privileges.
  
• New 'User is Banned' option in usergroup manager to easily prevent users belonging to specified usergroups from entering your chat room.
  
• Who's Chatting list is now (optionally) displayed on main forum page in the What's Going On box.
  
• Embedded Width may now be specified in percentage values (defaults to 100%)
  
• Option to display Chat Room Link in main navigation tab, community menu, and/or quick links menu.
  
• Various Performance Improvements
  
• Mobile Edition Support
  
• SSL Support
  
• Digitally signed applet support
  
• vBulletin Avatar Support

Features

• Seamless integration between your vBulletin Forum/CMS and AddonChat
  
• After installation, set up and configure your chat room from the AddonChat menu in your vBulletin Admin Control Panel
  
• Popup and Embedded Chat room link options
  
• Automatic (ten minute interval) User's Chatting updates
  
• Optionally display the amount of users within your chat room on your chat navigation tab shown throughout your entire forum/CMS.
  
• Remote authentication allows you to authenticate access into your chat room based on your vBulletin user database
  
• Automatic user login option
  
• Seamless integration with vBulletin Usergroup permissions (remote authentication)
  
• Remote functions system allows you to tie in vBulletin forum functions into the AddonChat user menu
  
• Uses the vBulletin XML product import architecture, making installation simple.
  
• No code or template modifications required
  
• Automated account lookup - just enter your account number and password, and your information will be automatically retrieved. (allow_url_fopen must be enabled in PHP)
  
• Multi-lingual (UTF-8) support
  
• Mobile Edition Support
  
• SSL Support
  
• Digitally signed applet support
  
• vBulletin Avatar Support

Installation
Installaion takes less than five minutes. Download the supplied ZIP file, and extract it on your personal computer. Open the README.TXT file for full installation instructions. No PHP code modifications or template modifications are required. This script makes use of the vBulletin XML Product system for a fast and painless installation.

Support
Support is provided by AddonInteractive for this script provided you have a Professional, Professional PLUS or Enterprise AddonChat account. Read the included instructions for details. Please let us know if you have any problems installing this extension.

 product-addonchat_3-8-7.zip   30.85K   79 downloads

Edited by Chris, 05 January 2012 - 01:08 AM.
New integration product (product-addonchat)

[Kaelon]

Thanks, Chris! Is there any change between this extension and the Release Candidate?

[Chris]

Kaelon said:

Thanks, Chris! Is there any change between this extension and the Release Candidate?

Nope -- The first release candidate worked out very well. The only thing we did was remove the do_not_upload folder and slightly edit the installation instructions. If you're still using the release candidate, there is no need to update :)

[Chris]

The integration script has been updated. If you are currently using this script or the release candidate and are not having issues, you do not need to upgrade.

The update made today addresses the following issues:

• Script conflict issues with vBCredits plugin have been resolved
  
• Integration script will now use the CURL extension if allow_url_fopen directive is disabled.
  
• Navigation and template bits are now cached to provide slight performance boost.

If you do intend to upgrade, please uninstall your current AddonChat product from the AdminCP, download, and re-install this product. When uploading files via FTP, allow older files to be overwritten.

Download

[Maxman1544]

Chris said:

The integration script has been updated. If you are currently using this script or the release candidate and are not having issues, you do not need to upgrade.

The update made today addresses the following issues:

• Script conflict issues with vBCredits plugin have been resolved
  
• Integration script will now use the CURL extension if allow_url_fopen directive is disabled.
  
• Navigation and template bits are now cached to provide slight performance boost.

If you do intend to upgrade, please uninstall your current AddonChat product from the AdminCP, download, and re-install this product. When uploading files via FTP, allow older files to be overwritten.

Download

When I try to download I get a message that says I am not logged in. Also posted an error on VB.org, no response. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Maxman1544]

Tried again, still getting the same error 1050.

[Chris]

Not sure what the problem is, but the download does appear to be working fine for me. The vbulletin.org download is on their own server, so you certainly shouldn't be getting the error from both sites. Please try it again :)

[Chris]

Ahh -- I see your post now. Disregard my last post, this isn't related to the download, but rather to the install. I'll respond at vbulletin.org.

[The Cookie Jar]

I am trying to install the addonchat to my vbulliten forum. I have vb 3.7.3 pl1. I have installed according to your directions. It shows in the manage products folder but when I refresh my admin cp it does not load the addonchat menu into my control panel. I have followed the instructions and it shows to be installed. I do not know what I am doing wrong.

I do have another chat program loaded in my forum. I went so far as to uninstall the other chat program and it still would not load the addonchat menu into my control panel.

Please help. I wanted to give the free one a try to see how it worked for some of my users before i purchased the pro. But if I can not get it installed correctly then I sol.

Thanks
Sue

[Chris]

Sue -- It sounds like something went wrong during installation. It's possible you may have another mod that is conflicting. We'd be happy to help. Simple eMail support@addonchat.com with your account number and any additional information that will be helpful for our techs to resolve the issue.

[abrecher]

Wow, I'm really glad I moved over to Addonchat! I've been using FlashChat for almost 2 years and it's been causing me so many headaches I was just about to remove chat from my forum entirely.

I noticed users mentioned links to members profiles within the chat room. I don't see this as an option anywhere ?

[Chris]

Hi,

This option will work provided you have the Pro+ service or higher. You'll find the option in your vBulletin ACP under AddonChat -> Account Settings -> Forum Integration -> Link Chat to Forum - User Profiles

[abrecher]

Chris said:

Hi,

This option will work provided you have the Pro+ service or higher. You'll find the option in your vBulletin ACP under AddonChat -> Account Settings -> Forum Integration -> Link Chat to Forum - User Profiles

I do have that set to yes and I do have the Professional PLUS edition....

[abrecher]

abrecher said:

I do have that set to yes and I do have the Professional PLUS edition....

I got it working by actually authenticating it via automatic lookup. It had been failing until this evening when I actually entered my password and messed with the URL.

NEW PROBLEM: Now I see the links you were referring to but they all lead to a link with member.php?u=0 . It doesn't have the correct member #!

[Chris]

Could be possibly that you need to do a simple refresh to get the new settings working properly, if not, please open a ticket and we'll be happy to help out :)

[abrecher]

Chris said:

Could be possibly that you need to do a simple refresh to get the new settings working properly, if not, please open a ticket and we'll be happy to help out :)

Tried that, support has no idea what I'm referring to. I even included a link to this post. My ticked ID is:
18645-1427101325

[Chris]

I've assigned the ticket to myself. Will get back to you :)

[rd3500]

Chris,

I signed up yesterday, need to integrate. I am waiting for the free trial to professional plus to then buy it. In the meantime, I am getting vb ready, I uploaded the files, I have a question, I sent it to support but I guess I tell you directly.

I don't need the who's chatting in the nav bar, so I am wondering if I can skip the modifications described in the readme for the integration script.

In the instructions for the integration script with vb there are 3 blocks of code to add. Can I skip those if I don't want the who's chatting in the nav bar?

[Chris]

Hmm -- if you're using vBulletin v3.7 and the correct integration script, there aren't any manual modifications -- the options are all done directly in the AddonChat section of your vBulletin admin control panel once it has been installed.

[Jelsea]

I sent an email to support, but I'm hoping someone can help me here. I just had Addon Chat installed in my vBulletin forum. It shows up nicely on the forum, everything shows up fine in the vBulletin admin control panel, but the chat room won't connect. I keep getting this error message:

Quote

admin
Service temporarily unavailable. Please try again in a few minutes.

I've had Addon chat for a long time on my other (not vBulletin) forum, and I've never had this problem before. Not sure what to do.