Chat loading.....please wait

[tracyp]

I have been trying to get past this for a week. I can select chat . Php on the server and it works. Please help

[tracyp]

Anyone else experience this? To explain a little clearer, when opening in wordpress I get the chat loading.....please wait. Clicking on the file On the server it works perfect.

[OldWolf]

You're simply not providing us with enough information to help you. Imagine going to a mechanic and saying "I left my car at home, but it's not working properly, what's wrong?"

http://www.phpfreechat.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4022

[tracyp]

Ok from the start:

Wordpress 2.8.5, WP Church theme Hosted on Yahoo Small Business

I have phpfreechat installed and am using phpfreechat shortcode on a page. When I try to start the chat it hangs on chat loading....please wait. I can log in to my server and select chat dot php file and the chat program loads and works fine. I can also type the full url to www.myblog.org/wp-content/plugins/phpfreechat/chat.php (not the real address) and the chat works. The problem I am having is that the chat will not load when called for in my page. I also tried hardcoding it in a seperate page template with the same results. Sorry I didn't provide that info prior.

[OldWolf]

Try a manual rehash, and then load the chat from wordpress rather than directly to it first.

[tracyp]

Produced the same results after manual rehash. btw, thanks for replying.

[Frumph]

phpfreechat gets interrupted on loading when another plugin or theme does something it doesnt like

go to yoururl.com/wp-content/plugins/phpfreechat/chat.php and see if the chat loads that way, if it does that means there's a conflict with a plugin on your main page

[tracyp]

It does load like that. I am new to wordpress and phpfreechat, so can you tell me a good way to determine what the conflict is.

[tracyp]

Well Finally. we made a new page template and stripped the header from it and now we have a working version of Phpfreechat. Here is the page template we made. It seems our problem was theme related.

<?php
/*
Template Name: Default Chat
*/
?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<div class="entry">
<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page »</p>'); ?>

<?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>

</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
<?php edit_post_link('Edit this entry.', '<p>', '</p>'); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Hope this helps someone else out. We just created a page and used the shortcode, and used this page template.

[Frumph]

Yeah that really doesnt say much, thats a standard template of #page

phpfreechat uses an absolute positioning and wont go past the loading please wait if something is conflicting with it