Hi guys and gals,<br /><br />Has anyone successfully integrated FlashChat with their UBB.threads user database?<br /><br />An excellent product that only costs $5.00. No support for integration with UBB.threads, but integration instructions are included for acedating, geeklog, ipb, mambo, phpbb, phpfusion, phpnuke, postnuke, vbulletin, wowbb, & xoops, as well as archived integration instructions for older versions of the above mentioned bb's.<br /><br />Totally customisable product, nice looking, and supposedly easy on your server - as easy as flash goes anyway...<br /><br />Thanks!<br /><br />Jason <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /><br />FlightAttendants.org; SWA.FlightAttendants.org (where I will be using FlashChat very soon).

Any idea if it can be password protected? (I think we have the same ideas, I'm planning to install it as well!) <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <br /> <br />Kristie <br />www.pilotfamilies.com

Kristie, <br /> <br />I just installed it with my IPB 2.0 at swa.flightattendants.org. Integration with the database was a breeze! It only took about 15 mintues total to upload, integrate and login to chat. <br /> <br />I'd like to use it with my UBB.threads bb as well, if someone could write integration instructions for UBB.threads. If that can be done it is automatically password protected since you must be logged into .threads in order to access FlashChat. It authenticates users via the .threads user database. <br /> <br />If you go to http://www.tufat.com you will be able to research more about FlashChat if you wish, and there are support forums there as well which would answer your specific question about a stand-alone database with password protected logins. <br /> <br />Regards, <br /> <br />Jason <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Hi,<br /><br />Ooohhhh, this looks nice. Would really like to add that as well, bet my users will love it.<br /><br />Sanuk!

I recently purchased the FlashChat script because it looks so nice and is so affordable. They don't have an integration module for any ubb products yet, so I stuck some authentication code in the chat page to grab the username and moderator status.<br /><br />It operates flawlessly with 3 or 4 people in it, but when I stress-tested it with my staff, getting about 20 people in a room chatting back and forth vigorously, the lag went up to 15 or 20 seconds inbetween lines for everyone in the room. In addition, graemlin/smilie codes are interpreted on the fly, and a whole line of " <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />" (x 30) will freeze everyone's chat window and cause them to time out and have to wait for the default time-out period to log back in.<br /><br />I was really sad that it failed under moderately busy chat conditions, since I reeeeeally liked the look of it.<br /><br />I currently run the commercial version of GlobalChat (formerly iChat) and it works well, but the main client is ActiveX and newbies are all frightened off by dire warnings about "If you allow this ActiveX control to install you will become sterile. Continue?"<br /><br />I'm not especially fond of the Raidersoft chat that has been so successfully integrated here... does anyone know of any other robust chat servers that will merge with ubb AND handle crowds of 100+ users without choking?

Incidentally curious... I show as a lurker with only 1 post? I've been a memebr here for a few years... and my avatar went away? <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

[]Helice said:<br />I recently purchased the FlashChat script because it looks so nice and is so affordable. They don't have an integration module for any ubb products yet, so I stuck some authentication code in the chat page to grab the username and moderator status.<br /><br />It operates flawlessly with 3 or 4 people in it, but when I stress-tested it with my staff, getting about 20 people in a room chatting back and forth vigorously, the lag went up to 15 or 20 seconds inbetween lines for everyone in the room. In addition, graemlin/smilie codes are interpreted on the fly, and a whole line of " <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />" (x 30) will freeze everyone's chat window and cause them to time out and have to wait for the default time-out period to log back in.<br /><br />I was really sad that it failed under moderately busy chat conditions, since I reeeeeally liked the look of it.<br /><br />I currently run the commercial version of GlobalChat (formerly iChat) and it works well, but the main client is ActiveX and newbies are all frightened off by dire warnings about "If you allow this ActiveX control to install you will become sterile. Continue?"<br /><br />I'm not especially fond of the Raidersoft chat that has been so successfully integrated here... does anyone know of any other robust chat servers that will merge with ubb AND handle crowds of 100+ users without choking? [/]<br /><br />Curious, Helice:<br /><br />I'm assuming you were on a strong (semi-dedicated or dedicated) server, and using the latest version of FlashChat? (3.9.3). Supposedly the last couple of version have brought about great improvements to the program.<br /><br />Thanks,<br /><br />Jason

I agree this would be a great mod ... if anyone figures this out please post it.

Probably not that difficult - I don't have this product, but will add it to my list to test out when I'm bored. <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

You have time to be bored?

Not very often.... but sometimes a break from other things. LOL

[]JoshPet said:<br />Probably not that difficult - I don't have this product, but will add it to my list to test out when I'm bored. <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> [/]<br />You want it? I'd be more than happy to buy it and send it to you. It would be a great addon for UBB.Threads v6.4 & v6.5. It integrates with every forum progie except UBB. And these other forum progies are inferior to UBB.Threads...

I have been with that guy for a looong time. Im sure I have bought every program he has made. He has good support for his stuff and is not out to make it rich by no means. I think that selling a great product for a lower price is a good thing. <br /><br />You will get more people to buy it because its at a cost that anyone can afford and thus probably making more money.<br /><br />I hve it on my server and forums as a private link for admin and moderators. Before I made it private we have about 15 people in it and it did slow don but not really terrible. I normally have about 8 in there during some meeting or whatever and there is not one sence of lag at all.<br /><br />I tried to get it to use the threads information so if you are logged into threads it will just tkae you right to the forums but I quickly found out that it was waaaaaay out of my leage <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Just bought it, will give it a try.

Sweet! Looking forward to hearing your findings.

PhotoPost,<br /><br />Curious to know if you've had a chance to try to integrate FC with UBB.t?<br /><br />Thanks,<br /><br />Jason

http://tufat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2599<br /><br />They say 1 week away.

You rock! (am I showing my age yet?!) *grin*

Okay, I finally got around to doing this. Here's the threadsCMS.php file you'll need. <br /> <br />1) Upload threadsCMS.php to your inc/cmses directory. Edit this file and set any cookieprefix or threads database prefix if not the default "w3t_" settings. I seperated these from the config.srv.php file because I already had FlashChat installed and the prefixes didn't match. <br /> <br />2) In inc/common.php, you'll need: <br /> <br /> include_once(INC_DIR . 'cmses/threadsCMS.php'); <br /> <br />3) (Optional) I added some code to flashchat.php to auto login someone if they were already logged into the forums: <br /> <br /><?php <br />// MDP - Added to auto login <br /> require ("../main.inc.php"); <br /> <br />// ----------------- <br />// Get the user info <br /> $userob = new user; <br /> $threadsuser = $userob -> authenticate('U_Status,U_LoginName'); <br />// End MDP <br /> <br /> include_once('inc/common.php'); <br /> <br /> $id = 'flashchat'; <br /> <br /> $params = array(); <br /> <br />// MDP - added to auto login first time <br /> if ( $threadsuser['U_Number'] > 1 ) { <br /> $_REQUEST['username'] = $threadsuser['U_LoginName']; <br /> $_REQUEST['lang'] = $GLOBALS['fc_config']['defaultLanguage']; <br /> $_REQUEST['password'] = $threadsuser['U_Password']; <br /> $_REQUEST['room'] = 0; <br /> } <br />// end MDP <br /> <br /> if(isset($_REQUEST['username'])) { <br /> <br />Basically, this grabs the login info for a user who is already logged in and skips the initial username/password grab the first time someone enters. <br /> <br />Give it a try - I have it working on ViperAlley.Com.

Hi,<br /><br />Cool, will give this a shot over the weekend. Perfect timing as well as we are almost done with a major overhaul; would be cool if we could add this feature at the same time.<br /><br />Sanuk!