[Plugin: Buddypress-Ajax-Chat] Any way to make Shoutbox open automatically on session start?

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Hi,

I bit the bullet and installed wp single and ran through ALL of the errors. Yuck! Big difference from wpmu. Anyway, in version 1.2.6 it now works in both wp single and wpmu installs.

As for the shoutbox not minimized throughout I’ll take a crack at that in a future release. I’ll have to maintain state, which I currently don’t. If I’m to do that, I guess location would be nice too, huh?

So I think this is the only issue to address. I think I covered your other issues.

Thanks,
Dave

I just installed the latest version but still have the following issues:

“Admin is offline” is always displaying. Next to the Submit button there is a “0/1040” displayed, not sure what that is.

On the shoutbox, it should also disappear when going to full chat.

And also when minimizing the shoutbox it does not stay minimized when navigating to different pages.

Admin is offline will be displayed only in the groups. It was requested by a user to know when a group admin is online so that they can chat with them if they are online. Do you not want this on your site? Do you think I should make it customizable to be enabled or disabled?

I have no idea what 0/1040 is. Run this in Firefox and check the error console to see if there is a javascript error. I’m using jQuery to update this and perhaps there’s a problem there?

As for the min. I know. I need to add a lot of functionality to make that work. I have an idea on how with ajax, but having fully baked it yet in my head.

Thanks,
Dave

Admin is offline is displayed under my profile even though I am online so that makes no sense.

The group admin, isn’t necessarily the site admin. That’s what it’s keying off of.

However there might be a bug if there are a large number of group members. I’m not sure yet.

Either of those conditions help you or describe your situation?

Yes my groups have a large memberships.

That I think is the key. I’ll look in to making sure groups larger than 10 do get processed fully.

Thanks,
Dave

Your chat plugin slows down site load a lot. I noticed when I have chat activated any page on my site takes up to 44 seconds to load. When I deactivated it my site loads in about 7 seconds. This is not good!

There is a socket interface to speed things up. Are you using a shared hosting site? That’s my guess…

Check out the socket settings in bp-chat/chat/config.php. They are at the bottom.

If this works for you let me know. Perhaps I’ll expose that to the top to make life easier for you on upgrades.

Thanks,
Dave

I did not find that file but did find bp-chat/chat/socket/server.conf. Do you mean that one? If so what do I edit in there?

The file is in buddypress-ajax-chat\trunk\bp-chat\chat\lib\config.php

Here’s a snippet of the variables:

// Defines if the socket server is enabled:
$config[‘socketServerEnabled’] = false;
// Defines the hostname of the socket server used to connect from client side (the server hostname is used if set to null):
$config[‘socketServerHost’] = null;
// Defines the IP of the socket server used to connect from server side to broadcast update messages:
$config[‘socketServerIP’] = ‘127.0.0.1’;
// Defines the port of the socket server:
$config[‘socketServerPort’] = 1935;
// This ID can be used to distinguish between different chat installations using the same socket server:
$config[‘socketServerChatID’] = 0;

I just upgraded to the latest version and it slows down my site to the point that the page does not load. I don’t think it’s compatible with php 5.3

Really? Pre 1.2.9 the db access was brutal. Not it is once on load, not every 2 seconds with 5 db connections.

I think it is something else.

As a test please go in to the buddypress-ajax-chat options page and hit save. It might have something to do with new global settings and kindly let me know.

Thanks,
Dave