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Yabb IRC Chat Mod

Created by Shoeb Omar, sce, and goosemoose

Although this mod may seem confsing, and maybe daunting at first, we're hoping that these help documents may help clear some issues up with you.

The Admin Options

There are many different options within the admin center. These may seem confusing, so the options shall be explained to you here:

Type of Chat - This mod includes two applets from you to choose between, eIRC and Chatspace. The benefits, demos, and overviews are in the table here.

Channel Name - This defines the name of the channel which you want to connect to once entering the applet. This option is available for both chats.

Enable Guests to Chat - When enabled, this option allows all guests to be able to enter your chat room with a name of Guest####, where #### is a random number. This option is also available for both chats.

Make Chat within a popup - When enabled, this option will make the chat poup in a small window rather than have its own page.

Chatspace Specific:

Language - This option enables you to select which language you want the applet to be in. To keep up to date on languages available for the applet, please overwrite your chatlangs.txt (in your Variables folder) with the one here if it is more current.

Prefix appended to names - This option is compulsory to fill in. What it does, is append an extension to all of your users names when entering the chat. For instance, if this setting was "_omar", and my user name for the forum was Shoeb; when going into the chat my name would auto matically become Shoeb_omar. Please note that this iotion is COMPULSORY for chatspace users, and if not filled in, will default to: "_yourroomname".

Chatspace vs. Eirc

Feature
Chatspace
eIRC
Yabb Dedicated Server
No
Yes
Help Channels Available
Yes
Yes
Who to email for applet support:
Ease of Use
Extremely Easy
Somewhat Easy
Multiple Languages
Yes
No
Ability to call who's in chat from another page
Yes
No
Strong servers
Not sure
Yes
Location of support
Links to your left
IRC Server URL
irc.everywherechat.com
mass.us.hobbygab.net

Call who's online on another page (for chatspace users):

For those of you who decide to use the chatspace applet, this is the only documentation I have for you, but it is also quite nifty. There are two scripts you can call from anypage on your site, to retrieve information from your chat,

The first one, will display how many (not who,, but a number of how many) users are in your chat:

<script language="JavaScript" src="http://irc.everywherechat.com:8000/java/users.js?room=yourroomname"></script>

The second, will display who is in your chat:

<script language="JavaScript" src="http://irc.everywherechat.com:8000/java/members_comma.js?room=yourroomname"></script>

I hope you will enjoy using these scripts, and please remember to replace yourroomname with your room name!