phpFreeChat integrated into MyBB bulletin board software!

[Ichibod]

All,
I've been using phpFreeChat for nearly half a year now, and I've absolutely LOVED it! Great product all --- thanks for your hard work!

As a site hoster/admin that's used the open source MyBB forums software (http://www.mybboard.net/) for about the same amount of time, one of my first projects when I set up my personal board was to tie together these two sweet open source projects.

The result: a MyBB plugin that integrates the phpFreeChat into any MyBB installation. (http://mods.mybboard.net/view.php?did=535)

This slick plugin allows an administrator to position a phpFreeChat session directly into their forum's pages:



or. it can be added as a link in the toplinks section that opens the chat in its own pop-up when activated.



The plugin even enables the administrator to allow individual users to position the chat session per their own preferences! (They can elect for a toplinks button or embedded in the page on an individual basis.)

The plugin also automatically logs users into the chat session with their appropriate usernames and privileges, based on MyBB's login information. (Users get user rights, admins and moderators get admin rights.)

Admins also have to control over 30 some-odd of phpFreeChat's features all through the simple use of MyBB's Admin Control Panel. It truly is a nice package. (For a full list of features, see the plugin's link: http://mods.mybboard.net/view.php?did=535.)

With the release of this plugin, phpFreeChat can now boast integration in both PunBB and MyBB. Hopefully good coders from all these projects will leverage their skills and this plugin to continue to improve all of these fine open source products.

Thanks for the good work all, and Cheers!
Ichibod

[phpfreechat]

Great contribution, thank you for all mybb users who need a chat in there forum.
Keep up the good work!

[judel]

Yes, I'm using this plugin and it makes the chat work so much nicer!!!

[Ichibod]

Hey Judel! Welcome to the phpFreeChat forums as well --- and thanks for the positive comments!

[Chasingu]

are you going to update this to work with MyBB 1.4 and PhpFreeChat 1.2?

[Rovin]

I'd also appreciate if this was updated to MyBB 1.4, a lot.

[Chasingu]

yha. and for it to work with phpfreechat 1.2

[Ichibod]

Hey guys... Glad to see some are still using this plugin. As you probably know, my plugin fell into disrepair as both MyBB and phpFreeChat (PFC) continued to develop. I bought a house, and got busy doing other things (mostly house stuff), so all this took a back burner. I honestly haven't touched it in probably over a year.

That said, my intention is to get back to it now that MyBB 1.4 is out and PFC has left beta status. I haven't yet upgraded my own board to either of these, so I don't even have a testbed yet. But, as soon as possible, I'll be doing that upgrade. Then I'll take a look at the latest PFC and see if I can pull these together. That may be a bit down the road, but I'll try to post here as soon as it's available.

[MaDc0w]

Hello Ichibod,

I'm interested in working with you and your mod.

I have also integrated phpfreechat 1.2 into MyBB 1.4.

Features I have added:

- Username intergration
- Profile information into whois info
- Avatar, Profile link, Usertitles, Gender
- Extra whois Profile information for Admins
- CurrentIP, RegisteredIP, E-Mail with Send Mail link
I also created a 2nd group for so we can add mods to the chat. Male/female icons for users/mods/admins
also added some of the nice commands from the site here (ignoring/away status with away msg)

Also username coloring (only in the usernames list atm) and fonts via custom user fields in mybb

my current project site: www.undergroundz.org