By brannfenix on

Hi,

I installed this module on my testing site over here http://www.jezebeltempting.com/?q=chatrooms/chat/1 no matter what I try I can not get this thing working :( There are no errors I can find anywhere and when you hit send to write your text it just does nothing... I have tried asking for help on IRC and searching the site with no luck... If anyone has a clue please let me know over here or email me brannfenix@gmail.com

Thanks in advance,
Brann

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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vm’s picture

vm commented

edit: just tried your link to the chatroom. it is possible the text is just being sent as white ?

Bahattee’s picture

Bahattee commented

I assume it writes info into .txt file ... maybe you have to create one or maybe you didn't set the right permissions on existing one.

Just guessing.

killedar’s picture

killedar commented

Just tried the link you provided and it is not working in the content area. But try the link on the left side block join the chat, it opens a new popup and the chat is working fine there.

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Muslim guy commented

It must have been something to do with Drupal 4.7.4 and/or caching

With Drupal 4.7.3 and 4.7.2, I had no problem (and I could also change the text string to other language)

Eg: http://drupalmalaysia.org/PERKASA/?q=chatrooms (Takes seconds to display the previous chat)

It asks for drupal_chat_cache folder which you might have to create yourself (if not created automatically) and set to 777

However, with Drupal 4.7.4, I had problems with these modules:

Profile.module - replace with profile.module from 4.7.3 (to enable listing by SELECT and FREE LIST)
Chatroom - just blank chat, but I checked the drupal_chat_cache and there is some files in it
Guestbook - user cannot read own gbook entry

Acidfree - it repeatedly creating new albums to HUNDREDS! Might be careful if you want to install ACIDFREE for Drupal 4.7.4. If nothing happens, check your `tracker' and you might see `acidfree albums' hundreds of them of which you might have to manually delete them or empty your content (not fun)

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urshunt commented

So what is the solution to this problem. Chatroom is not working, all i get is a white field without any text in it. i enter text into the textfield and hit "send" but all it does is disappear. did anyone find the solution? i am using drupal 5.1. thanks in advance for any help!!!!

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smw commented

Does anyone have a plausible explanation? Would really love to get this working properly...
As others have said above, once a Chatroom has been created and you test with users logged on ... When typing into the text box to send nothing happens when you submit the text?

Oh Tested it thoroughly on both Safari and Firefox

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prokopton commented

I'm having the same problem on Drupal 5.1. Is there a fix out for it?

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prokopton commented

There is a fix out for it! It's here:

"This is documented on the project page and INSTALL.txt. You must use a development release of Drupal or change line 1702 of includes/common.inc yourself:
change

if (array_keys($var) === range(0, sizeof($var) - 1)) {

to
if (empty ($var) || array_keys($var) === range(0, sizeof($var) - 1)) {

The link is above somewhere.

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tfrazier commented

That worked for me!

Tim Frazier
http://www.chlgrapevine.com
http://www.4fraziers.com

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tfrazier commented

Now when I log in with my user ID, I get to the chat room just fine, but I can't see the contents of the main chat window. Other users and guest work fine, and they can see what I send. I can log in as another user or even guest from the same machine and it all works fine.

Have this problem only under my user ID, even when logging on from other machines and no matter what browser (FireFox/IE) I use.

Tim Frazier
http://www.chlgrapevine.com
http://www.4fraziers.com

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tfrazier commented

Ended up being the Smileys bug. I installed the Smileys module. That crashed my database. Repaired the tables. Went to enable the Smileys module, crashed database again. Repaired tables again, restarted mysqld, and everything works now. Bizarre!

Tim Frazier
http://www.chlgrapevine.com
http://www.4fraziers.com

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prokopton commented

I had to manually create the chatroom SQL tables. In case you need it...

CREATE TABLE chatroom(
crid int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
nid int(11) NOT NULL,
poll_freq int(2) NOT NULL default '3000',
idle_freq int(3) NOT NULL default '60000',
kicked_out_message longtext,
banned_message longtext,
module varchar(255) default 'chatroom',
auto_archive int(1) default '0',
old_msg_count int(3) default '20',
modified int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (crid),
KEY nid (nid)
) ;

CREATE TABLE chatroom_chat(
ccid int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
crid int(11) NOT NULL,
uid int(11) NOT NULL,
chatname varchar(255) NOT NULL,
modified int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
when_archived int(11) default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (ccid),
KEY crid (crid),
KEY modified (modified)
) ;

CREATE TABLE chatroom_msg (
cmid int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
ccid int(11) NOT NULL,
uid int(11) NOT NULL,
msg_type varchar(64) NOT NULL,
msg longtext NOT NULL,
session_id varchar(255) NOT NULL,
recipient varchar(255) NOT NULL,
modified int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (cmid),
KEY ccid (ccid),
KEY session_id (session_id),
KEY recipient (recipient),
KEY modified (modified)
) ;

CREATE TABLE chatroom_msg_archive (
cmid int(11) NOT NULL,
ccid int(11) NOT NULL,
uid int(11) NOT NULL,
msg_type varchar(64) NOT NULL,
msg longtext NOT NULL,
session_id varchar(255) NOT NULL,
recipient varchar(255) NOT NULL,
modified int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (cmid),
KEY ccid (ccid),
KEY session_id (session_id),
KEY recipient (recipient),
KEY modified (modified)
) ;

CREATE TABLE chatroom_ban_list (
crid int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
uid int(11) NOT NULL,
admin_uid int(11) NOT NULL,
modified int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
KEY crid_uid (crid,uid)
) ;

CREATE TABLE chatroom_online_list(
coid int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
ccid int(11) NOT NULL,
uid int(11) NOT NULL,
session_id varchar(255) NOT NULL,
guest_id int(11) NOT NULL default '1',
away int(1) default '0',
is_admin int(1) default '0',
modified int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (coid),
KEY update_time (ccid,uid,session_id)
) ;

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codevelopment
Location Perth, Australia
commented

Done all the above, still doesn't work for me in 5.2.

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scoutladen commented

same problem on drupal 5.2

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scoutladen commented

sorry double posting

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Muslim guy commented

Userplane.com is a audio/webcam/text chat nicely integrated with Drupal user login (but there is bottom ads) - u can signup for free

I used Userplane as another option to Chatbox, Chatroom (tricky and wacky result bcos of javascript/caching) and chat (buddy)

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tommyready commented

I have installed this mod, given access control but yet I cannot chat in chat room. None of the txt I send shows up? If there a fix for this yet??

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Ole Martin commented

I have 4 sites. it's work fine in 2 of them. But in 2 other. it's don't work.
I have all 4 sites in same host and 2 of them (1 who work and 1 who don't work) similar. same modules aktivated and same themes. Sib-75

Now I will try to take a copy of the table in that sites who work and import it to the other site.

Ole Martin
http://www.drupal.no (her its work)
http://www.drupal1.no

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jiangxijay commented

I was having a similar problem ... then I realized I had a mismatch between my current install (5.1 not 5.2) and Chatroom.

When I upgraded to 5.2, the main Chatroom edit area appeared just fine ...

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GoofyX commented

This issue helped me (Drupal 5.2, chatroom 1.7).
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... Morpheus: What is "real"? How do you define "real"? If you 're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then "real" is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain...