[ABD] phpbbchat 0.4.0 (facebook like chat)

[!karolis]

So this is stable? Will it affect server usage?

Is this a way to do only one chat for all forum users and no friends chat? + a way for other users to turn off completely chat.

[James78]

I don't use this MOD, but I thought of something people might find of use.

Maybe you should integrate ignoring users. E.g. if you have a user on your foe list, why would you want them to IM you?

[EduCatOR]

I don't use this MOD, but I thought of something people might find of use.

Maybe you should integrate ignoring users. E.g. if you have a user on your foe list, why would you want them to IM you?

Unless another member is on your friends list, they cannot IM you. Even though the "connected to server" chrome/safari bug is just cosmetic, I think that should be the most important focus at the moment.

[DerGonzo]

Hi statish!

Thanks for that MOD, it seems to work fine!

Are you able to see forward how long it it will take to implement the sound on arrival of a message? That´s a feature that my users are really missing...
Perhaps thats a small and easy update? If it is, I (and my users) would be happy if you could provide that soon.

Thanks a lot
for this MOD!

Greetings,
DerGonzo!

[James78]

I don't use this MOD, but I thought of something people might find of use.

Maybe you should integrate ignoring users. E.g. if you have a user on your foe list, why would you want them to IM you?

Unless another member is on your friends list, they cannot IM you. Even though the "connected to server" chrome/safari bug is just cosmetic, I think that should be the most important focus at the moment.

Ahhh. Guess I must've glossed over that. Good thing to know it has that! I feel that them not being able to IM you unless being on your friends list is actually a good idea to begin with.

[darkonia]

crap mod...to slow for very big forums...

[stathisch]

crap mod...to slow for very big forums...

That's not the mod's fault. Please see the first post:

For big forums, you're going to need a *strong* server, so it can handle the load.

The architecture of phpBB is not optimal for uses like this, so many queries are made for every ajax request. Especially if you have many mods, this could be much worse. I have tried to make my MOD as optimized (algorithmically & technically) as I could when coding it, in my limited time.

Facebook has dozens of servers, dealing *only* with the chat platform, and yet still, those servers are experiencing issues.

Please think more about it before making statements like that.

[Kamahl19]

You should make a system for shuting down or slowing the refresh time if the user is inactive, like we on Social Network MOD. It checks new messages every 1,5s if it found some new message, it loads that message. If the user is 5 minutes inactive (not sending messages) the checking time is 30seconds so it does not make a big load and when user is going Offline in chat, it stops checking.

[stathisch]

You should make a system for shuting down or slowing the refresh time if the user is inactive, like we on Social Network MOD. It checks new messages every 1,5s if it found some new message, it loads that message. If the user is 5 minutes inactive (not sending messages) the checking time is 30seconds so it does not make a big load and when user is going Offline in chat, it stops checking.

Kamahl19, there is no client side refresh interval. It uses Ajax polling.
Maybe a hybrid system could be done, but would not be very stable when having many tabs open.
Also, maybe I could implement an "idle" function, where the server loops have bigger usleep times.
I must look more into it.

[awayfromkeyboard]

Oh, I'll see what I can do about that. What version of phpBB are you running?

Also, this mod is not abandonned, I just don't have enough free time to work on it on a more regular basis.

i wish this mod is not ABD too..
i wish mod writer still develop this mod..

i'll wait...

thank you

great mod mr.stathisch

[DerGonzo]

Hi statish!

Thanks for that MOD, it seems to work fine!

Are you able to see forward how long it it will take to implement the sound on arrival of a message? That´s a feature that my users are really missing...
Perhaps thats a small and easy update? If it is, I (and my users) would be happy if you could provide that soon.

Thanks a lot
for this MOD!

Greetings,
DerGonzo!

It´s been a month now since I asked so I try again:
Can you say how long it will take to implement sound? I don´t want to annoy you, but perhaps it´s an easy done change? Or you couls ask kamahl?

Greetings,
DerGonzo!

[DkNINJA]

I found this to be quite a useful little mod, and I hope the author hasn't abandoned it. In the mean time, I've made some tweaks to implement coloured conversations where sent messages text and background colours, received messages text and background colours and the spacer colour (line in between sent and received messages) can all be customised through the css sheet. Changes as below:

1. file phpbb/js/phpbbchat.js, replace line 223 to line 231 from:

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										Prefix = '<hr />';
									}
									if ( Friends[ j ].last == -1 ) {
										Prefix += '<strong>' + Chat.Lang.CHAT_ME + '</strong>: <br />';
									} else {
										Prefix += '<strong>' + Friends[ item.FROM ].username + '</strong>: <br />';
									}
								}
								Messages += Prefix + '<div title="' + item._TIME + '" style="padding: 0 0 2px 10px;">' + item.MESSAGE + '</div>';

To:

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										Prefix = '<div class="spacer">&nbsp;</div>';
									}
									if ( Friends[ j ].last == -1 ) {
										Prefix += '<div class="titleme"><strong>' + Chat.Lang.CHAT_ME + '</strong>: </div>';
									} else {
										Prefix += '<div class="titlefriend"><strong>' + Friends[ item.FROM ].username + '</strong>: </div>';
									}
								}
								Messages += Prefix + '<div title="' + item._TIME + '"';
								if ( Friends[ j ].last == -1 ) {
									Messages += ' class="msgme"';
								} else {
									Messages += 'class="msgfriend"';
								}
								Messages += '>' + item.MESSAGE + '</div>';

2. file phpbb/styles/prosilver/theme/phpbbchat.css, find this code:

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#chat .tab .newbox .boxmessages {
	display: block;
	min-height: 254px;
	max-height: 254px;
	background: #CADCEB;
	color: #000;
	overflow: auto;
	margin-bottom: 3px;
	/*border-bottom: 1px solid #CADCEB;*/
	word-wrap: break-word;
}

add after the final line (the "}", line 121) a blank line, and paste in the following code:

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#chat .tab .newbox .boxmessages .titleme {
	color:#555;
	background: #E7EEF2;
	padding: 2px 2px 0 2px;
}
#chat .tab .newbox .boxmessages .titlefriend {
	color:#090;
	padding: 2px 2px 0 2px;
}
#chat .tab .newbox .boxmessages .msgme {
	color:#555;
	padding: 0 2px 2px 10px;
	background: #E7EEF2;
}
#chat .tab .newbox .boxmessages .msgfriend {
	color:#000;
	padding: 0 2px 2px 10px;
}
#chat .tab .newbox .boxmessages .spacer {
	width:100%;
	height:5px;
	background: #FFF;
}

That's all. Don't forget to refresh your themes database if you're editing the files directly - however if you have previously used the style editor to edit css, you should use this method to edit phpbbchat.css, otherwise you will lose changes made in the style editor when you refresh the themes database.

Any modifications to the colour scheme used can be done in the css sheet, the style names are fairly self explanatory - utilise some trial and error if you're unsure.

I hope this helps people - as for sound on notification, I'm competent with js but am no expert so I can't help there.

[NowTech]

this mod not supported in subsilver2

why its not for Subsilver styles???

its just for prosilver?? how can we installed on subsilver?

subsilver will not be more supported after phpbb 3.0.8

Dam! My style(Wow_Alliance) is based off subsilver and thats how i've been editting it..I guess this would mean i'll need to find a style based off prosilver...

Definitely loving this mod though. I will be adding it to my forum when i get home!

Your life will be a little easier once you switch to a prosilver style. You won't have to worry about if mod authors are going to create subsilver style templates or not

Come on guys,

phpBB comes with two Styles (proSilver and subSilver) with ProSilver being the default. Some of us still use the subSilver Style, all I need for my board is phpbbchat system.

[darkonia]

use this its better and not so heavy for the server: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... &t=2008845

[NowTech]

use this its better and not so heavy for the server: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... &t=2008845

I don't want my site to be a facebook knockoff.