Phpbb Integration

[Yautja_cetanu]

This is looking really good!

However, how easy would phpbb integration be. Currently I use PJIRC, for the chatroom that integrates with the forum. However it uses Java, which uses up so many resources!

When I say integration, this is what I'm looking for (I know that some features of integration require some of the freatures in the roadmap to be completed first).

1) Users register and automatically log in via the phpbb inteface
2) A list of users chatting can be displayed in the "who is online" section
3) User rights and admin levels are handled via the phpbb ACP
4) Future updates by phpbb shouldn't effect it, so as little phpbb code changes as possible. (Obviously template changes will be required).

The second one being the most important.

What do you think? (Btw, as this is entirely opensource and in php... if you could turn this into a proper mod for phpbb, and get it validated. It would bring in LOADS of publicity. I know quite a few other people who are in my position, want a simple chatroom for phpbb, can't stand flash, java, or complicated IRC servers).

Edit: Found that you have a solution to the 1st problem (not as secure, but still good)

[fishy]

Edit: Found that you have a solution to the 1st problem (not as secure, but still good)

where??!?!??

[Valerie]

Edit: Found that you have a solution to the 1st problem (not as secure, but still good)

where??!?!??

Ditto. Where can we find more (solid) info on phpBB integration?

[andrewbelcher]

This is a massively cut down version, as I'm still developing the full working version which has all the configuration done through the admin panel. However, this will work with the regular phpFreeChat functionality, with hard-coded param values:

File: <forum directory>/chat.php

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<?php
/***************************************************************************
 *                             AJAX CHATROOM MOD chatroom.php
 *                            -------------------
 *   begin                : 01/03/06
 ***************************************************************************/

define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = './';
include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc');
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx);

//
// Start session management
$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_INDEX);
init_userprefs($userdata);
// End session management
//

$params = array();

// SET YOUR PARAMS HERE

if ( $userdata['session_logged_in'] == TRUE)
{
   require_once dirname(__FILE__)."/chat/src/phpfreechat.class.php"; // Set to the correct directory for your install. Relative to the forum directory.
   $params['nick']          = $userdata['username'];  // setup the intitial nickname

   $chat = new phpFreeChat( $params );

   $chat_header = $chat->printJavascript('true');
   $chat_header .= $chat->printStyle('true');
   $chatroom = $chat->printChat('true');
}
else
{
   $chatroom = "Please <a href="login.php">login</a> to access the Chatroom.";
}

$page_title = $lang['Chat_Room'];
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/page_header.'.$phpEx);

$template->set_filenames(array(
   'body' => 'chatroom.tpl')
);

$template->assign_vars(array(
     'CHATROOM_CODE' => $chatroom));

$template->pparse('body');

include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/page_tail.'.$phpEx);
?>

That will currently only allow people in if they are logged in. If you want people to be able to use it without being logged in, do the following:

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Replace:

if ( $userdata['session_logged_in'] == TRUE)
{
   require_once dirname(__FILE__)."/chat/src/phpfreechat.class.php"; // Set to the correct directory for your install. Relative to the forum directory.
   $params['nick']          = $userdata['username'];  // setup the intitial nickname

   $chat = new phpFreeChat( $params );

   $chat_header = $chat->printJavascript('true');
   $chat_header .= $chat->printStyle('true');
   $chatroom = $chat->printChat('true');
}
else
{
   $chatroom = "Please <a href="login.php">login</a> to access the Chatroom.";
}


With:

require_once dirname(__FILE__)."/chat/src/phpfreechat.class.php"; // Set to the correct directory for your install. Relative to the forum directory.
$params['nick']          = $userdata['username'];  // setup the intitial nickname

$chat = new phpFreeChat( $params );

$chat_header = $chat->printJavascript('true');
$chat_header .= $chat->printStyle('true');
$chatroom = $chat->printChat('true');

File: <forum directory>/templates/subSilver/chatroom.tpl

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<table width="97%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="0" align="center"><tr><td><table width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" border="0" class="forumline"><tr><th class="thTop" height="25">


Chatroom


</th></tr><tr><td class="row1" align="left"><span class="gensmall" style="line-height:150%">


{CHATROOM_CODE}

</span></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

As I said - I'm still working on the fully functional phpBB integration, but don't hold your breath as I've just started uni and have loads of work, as well as a few other more important things to program for my church's website.

I imagine what will happen is that by the time I've got the time for this, phpBB3 will be out and I'll make the integration for that, which will be much better.

[sabreofsd]

Hey Andrew,
Any luck finishing this? I tried the above, but receive this when trying it:
Error: the chat cannot be loaded! two possibilities: your browser doesn't support javascript or you didn't setup correctly the server directories rights

I saw some other code that will bring the chat into the bottom of the page. I might give that a try too

[andrewbelcher]

The JavaScript/directories error is nothing to do with the phpBB integration, but to do with the set-up of your phpFreeChat instance. Have you got all the permissions sorted correctly on the data (sub)directories?

[sabreofsd]

Hey Andrew,
Thanks for getting back to me. The permissions seem to be setup correctly since when I go directly to chat (using the included index.php in PFC), it works correctly. I have phpbb installed in my root web path and PFC installed under ./chat/ from there. I modified the line in chat.php so that it references the correct class file, but is there anything else that I needed to change?
Thanks again for all the help!

[bgx]

Hi!

I have the same problem like sabreofsd.

What could I do?

[EdB]

I followed the steps in http://www.phpfreechat.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=389 and had a beta-6 chat up and running as a phpbb forum (v2.0.21) without issue.

[bgx]

When I write in my chatroom.php file:

$chat_header = $chat->printJavascript();
$chat_header .= $chat->printStyle();
$chatroom = $chat->printChat('true');

it works, but headers output before and I get a Headeroutput Error, because the JS-Code is before the HTML.

[andrewbelcher]

That's interesting bgx... I think you may be on to the problem. The 'true' in the $chat->printJavaScript is so that the code is returned rather than outputted, which is why you have the problems with it being outside the HTML when you take the true away. This might be something that has come in with v7, as I developed this using 6... What server do you run?


I don't have much time to look into this now, as I've a load of uni work - but if it is a problem since Beta 7, it might be something for Kerphi to look into... I've definitely got it working with that code exactly previously, but that could be something to do with set-up also...

[bgx]

Hi andrew!

Thx for looking at my problem!

I see you have tried to look at it onto my page.

Here the HTML from my site without the ('true').

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<script type="text/javascript">
var xajaxRequestUri="./chatroom.php";
var xajaxDebug=false;
var xajaxStatusMessages=false;
var xajaxWaitCursor=false;
var xajaxDefinedGet=0;
var xajaxDefinedPost=1;
var xajaxLoaded=false;
function pfc_handleRequest(){return xajax.call("handleRequest", arguments, 1);}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="phpfreechat-1.0-beta7/data/public/de36da0b9644441e6d216ed817133097/proxy.php?p=xajax_0.2.3/xajax_js/xajax.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="phpfreechat-1.0-beta7/data/public/de36da0b9644441e6d216ed817133097/proxy.php?p=javascript/md5.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="phpfreechat-1.0-beta7/data/public/de36da0b9644441e6d216ed817133097/proxy.php?p=javascript/cookie.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="phpfreechat-1.0-beta7/data/public/de36da0b9644441e6d216ed817133097/proxy.php?p=javascript/image_preloader.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="phpfreechat-1.0-beta7/data/public/de36da0b9644441e6d216ed817133097/proxy.php?p=javascript/myprototype.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="phpfreechat-1.0-beta7/data/public/de36da0b9644441e6d216ed817133097/proxy.php?p=javascript/regex.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="phpfreechat-1.0-beta7/data/public/de36da0b9644441e6d216ed817133097/proxy.php?p=javascript/utf8.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="phpfreechat-1.0-beta7/data/public/de36da0b9644441e6d216ed817133097/proxy.php?p=javascript/sprintf2.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="phpfreechat-1.0-beta7/data/public/de36da0b9644441e6d216ed817133097/proxy.php?p=javascript/activity.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="phpfreechat-1.0-beta7/data/public/de36da0b9644441e6d216ed817133097/proxy.php?p=javascript/mousepos.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="phpfreechat-1.0-beta7/data/public/de36da0b9644441e6d216ed817133097/proxy.php?p=pfcclient.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="phpfreechat-1.0-beta7/data/public/de36da0b9644441e6d216ed817133097/proxy.php?p=pfcgui.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="phpfreechat-1.0-beta7/data/public/de36da0b9644441e6d216ed817133097/proxy.php?p=pfcresource.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="phpfreechat-1.0-beta7/data/public/de36da0b9644441e6d216ed817133097/proxy.php?p=default/customize.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="phpfreechat-1.0-beta7/data/public/de36da0b9644441e6d216ed817133097/proxy.php?p=default/style.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="phpfreechat-1.0-beta7/data/public/de36da0b9644441e6d216ed817133097/proxy.php?p=green/style.css" />
<style type="text/css">div#pfc_channels_content { height: 300px; }</style>
<br />

<b>Warning</b>:  Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /www/htdocs/w005fafa/sh/phpfreechat-1.0-beta7/src/phpfreechat.class.php:129) in <b>/www/htdocs/w005fafa/sh/includes/page_header.php</b> on line <b>978</b><br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /www/htdocs/w005fafa/sh/phpfreechat-1.0-beta7/src/phpfreechat.class.php:129) in <b>/www/htdocs/w005fafa/sh/includes/page_header.php</b> on line <b>980</b><br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /www/htdocs/w005fafa/sh/phpfreechat-1.0-beta7/src/phpfreechat.class.php:129) in <b>/www/htdocs/w005fafa/sh/includes/page_header.php</b> on line <b>981</b><br />

<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /www/htdocs/w005fafa/sh/phpfreechat-1.0-beta7/src/phpfreechat.class.php:129) in <b>/www/htdocs/w005fafa/sh/includes/page_header.php</b> on line <b>984</b><br />
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html dir="ltr">
<head>

<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<meta http-equiv="Language" content="de">

<meta name="Content-Language" content="de">
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">
<meta name="Copyright" content="Tobias Hau">

...and so...


You see the Javascript is before the <html>block, but the chat works (with the header error).

When I adding the ('true') to it I get the same error like sabreofsd!

My Server is one from Germany allinkl.

I'm at the moment at work and can't go onto my FTP to fill in the ('true').

Have tried a lot but don't know how to fix this.

I see other phpbb webmaster have integratet it. But what made I wrong?

[andrewbelcher]

Ok... I currently have it working absolutely fine with phpFreeChat Beta 5... So that version definitely can work. If you can get it working with phpFreeChat Beta 5 also, using the above as I had it (so with the trues), then I'd need some input from Kerphi as to what has changed since Beta 5 that could be causing this problem.

[bgx]

ok thx a lot! I will try the beta5 later when I at home and let you know if it works.

I think that some JS is missed, because in the JS-Console I get the error that the pfc is not filled.

[bgx]

hi andrew!

the same behavior with beta6.

Here the link to my chat with set ('true')

perhabs you can take a look on it?

http://www.springenderhund.de/chatroom.php

I have set it up that you can look without login!

Another Question!

Where is the var $chat_header included?

I can't find it in my script. It should include in the overall_header?

Perhabs the reason why it only go by you is that we don't have the var included?