chatroom

litbynature · March 2006

Can anyone recommend a chatroom app?

Kosmo · March 2006

Campfire :D

litbynature · March 2006

campfire is great for a site with a business purpose; also, it costs a little bit of money just to allow 60 people to chat. anyone know of an open source chat application?

ccmehil · March 2006

http://lussumo.com/community/discussion/1859/ I used Chatr which is simply and easy, made a plugin for Vanilla as well

Bergamot · March 2006

Not to mention that Campfire cannot be locally hosted.

fernando · March 2006

I use phpchat, it's free... but it's too big, and clunky. like Chatr, many IE users are out of luck. A nice, simple chat would be really great!

ccmehil · March 2006

@fernando - What do mean like Chatr many IE users are out of luck?

Bergamot · March 2006

See, what we need is a chatroom built on this.

NickE · March 2006

lol, you just saw that too? Here's a more technical description: http://ajaxpatterns.org/HTTP_Streaming

fernando · March 2006

I installed Chatr, and most IE 6 and lower users said they couldn't see it, or use it. Has that been fixed?

ccmehil · March 2006

None of mine seem to have a problem with using IE?

bshultz · March 2006

Yeah, I tested it on several different machines with IE 6.x and it worked fine. I would wonder if their security settings are blocking out the AJAX stuffs? I know that part of that ends up running as ActiveX in IE and setting more securely can block it from running.

I was looking to use Chatr on my site, but I guess I'm going to have to rethink that... Some 60% of my users are on IE, ~85% of that 6.x, but it makes me concerned that I'd be locking some people out.

Have you looked at Lace? That one seems to degrade pretty nicely, even working on Lynx (manual refresh, of course).

http://socket7.net/lace/

ccmehil · March 2006

Lace doesn't look to bad, if my users ever start logging in again LOL (I think I confused a bit much) maybe I'll give it a go.

fernando · March 2006

Lace looks good. It installed just fine and I've actually got it up and running now. My community seem to like it a lot. Only thing missing from Lace is the lack of registration. Anyone can pop on and chat away... no requirement for names or anything. Would be nice to hack it to allow registration for nickname reservation/protection. Otherwise this one's pretty cool.

lech · March 2006

lace looks nifty indeed. I'll have to play with this.

LoOkOuT · March 2006

fernando: maybe you (I certainly couldn't) could play around with making a Lace extension so that it's usuable through Vanilla and hacking Lace to use People?

bshultz · March 2006

Tying Lace into People is pretty straight forward. I've got most of what's need cobbled together right now. Give me until later this evening and I'll post what I've got.

Mark · March 2006

Tying Lace into People is pretty straight forward

That sounds absolutely terrifying :P

lech · March 2006

hahaha, ouch.

Bergamot · March 2006

bshultz · March 2006

Unintended connotations ahoy! Heh.

Strike the code I'd placed here previously. I've run into some odd issues and need to rethink it. Will post back when I've got it fixed.

ccmehil · April 2006

Lace is pretty cool - I created an extension which set's the lace cookie from my vanilla forum so when they click they jump over into Lace logged in as their vanilla user

now just gotta disable the name change box in lace itself so they don't change their names once in there :-)


<?php
/*
Extension Name: Lace Integration
Extension Url: http://www.cmehil.com/
Description: Adds the Lace (http://www.socket7.net/lace/) login to the user panel, defaulted with their name
Version: 1.0
Author: ccmehil
Author Url: http://craig.cmehil.com
*/

if(@$Panel){
  // Location of your chat program
	if(file_exists('../lace/config.php')){
		// CSS Settings
		$ButtonCSS = "PanelButton";
    
    // Title you want to give the chat panel
    $Title = "Chit Chat";
    $TitleSubmit ="Chat Now!";
    
    // Gather user info
		if (!@$UserManager) $UserManager = $Context->ObjectFactory->NewContextObject($Context, "UserManager");
		$AccountUserID = ForceIncomingInt("u", $Context->Session->UserID);
		if (!@$AccountUser) $AccountUser = $UserManager->GetUserById($AccountUserID);

    // Create chat cookie
    setcookie("Lace_name", $AccountUser->Name, time()+3600*24*30, "/lace/");
    
    // Create chat login form        
    $ChatForm = "<form method=\"get\" action=\"../lace/index.php\" method=\"POST\">"
              . "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"name\" value=\"".$AccountUser->Name."\" />"
							. "<input type=\"submit\" class=\"".$ButtonCSS."\" value=\"".$TitleSubmit."\" />"
							. "</form>"
							. "<br>";

    $ListName = $Context->GetDefinition($Title);
    $Panel->AddList($ListName);
   
    // Add the form to the panel
    $Panel->AddListItem($ListName,'','',$ChatForm);
  }
}

?>

Just gotta change the two cookie values to match your setup.

lech · April 2006

now just gotta disable the name change box in lace itself so they don't change their names once in there :-)

In that case, if you haven't done so already, you may want to also disable the changing of usernames in vanilla. As that could also throw your users off :)

ccmehil · April 2006

That's a good point. Perhaps I just won't bother then, although I set the cookie each and everytime the page loads (which would mean the name change would go work)

I probably won't bother I don't have a lot of usage anyway :-)

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