chat does not use configuration settings from module configuration page

/rehash doesn't solve this problem

Nothing is written to the phpfreechat table in the Drupal database. Related? I'm running Drupal 5.7 and phpfreechat module 5.x-1.x-rc4.

Being compulsive, I did update the settings to match phpfreechat v1.1 (what I'm using). Nobody is responding here so I think I'm the only one using this - I won't bother to post it. It's an easy change to make. Don't forget to update the .install file, too.

These are all the changes I've posted:

Database bug (fix this first - blocks bug needs it):
http://drupal.org/node/250069

Blocks bug:
http://drupal.org/node/200962

Scrolling bug in IE 7:
http://drupal.org/node/225162

Rooms and other default settings bug:
http://drupal.org/node/187468

I also updated the admin form to use the phpfreechat v1.1 parameters, but I didn't post it because it's a lot of code. A lot of new parameters were added in v1.1, and I added them all without evaluating how useful they were in the Drupal context. You could easily crash the chat with the wrong changes, but that's true now, too.

The parameters update involved replacing the _phpfreechat_settings() function in phpfreechat.inc, and updating the $settings array in the phpfreechat_uninstall() function in phpfreechat.install. The original uninstall function didn't delete certain Drupal-specific variables and mine doesn't (yet) either. I'm going to fix that tonight.

I wrote to the developer of the phpfreechat integration module to tell him I fixed all the bugs and ask if he could incorporate the fixes into a new download, but he didn't answer. I could post the updated code on one of my own servers. It might generate more traffic than I want, or maybe not. People haven't been responding to my posts - there doesn't seem to be much interest. I don't know why not. phpFreeChat is a way better chat their either ChatRoom or ChatBlock. The phpFreeChat download page says something about it breaking jQuery, but I've had no problems.

What version of Drupal are you running? I have 5.7 installed, and that's all I tested it on. But from what I can tell, all of 5.x uses the same API.

I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work on 5.2. The changes I made were all bug fixes - nothing about the Drupal version. Let me know how it goes.

I just uploaded a new version (http://permutations.com/drupal/phpfreechat.php).

I backed out setting the default timeout to 35000 in the module. It's not working because the "negative number" error is still happening after clearing the cache (/rehash). The timeout needs to be changed to avoid disconnects, and the easiest way to do this is to change it directly in pfcglobalconfig.class.php. phpFreeChat has an integer check in there, and Drupal's form API doesn't have an integer type. I tried to identify the integer strings and change them and it worked in a test file, but not in the module.

pfcglobalconfig.class.php is in the phpFreeChat src directory (it's not a module file).

1. To change the default timeout, find this variable assignment and change the 20000 to 35000:

   var $timeout = 35000;

2. To get rid of the negative number error, comment out this code in pfcglobalconfig.class.php:

   /*
    $numerical_positive_params = $this->_params_type["positivenumeric"];
    foreach( $numerical_positive_params as $npp )
    {
      if (!is_int($this->$npp) || $this->$npp < 0)
        $this->errors[] = _pfc("'%s' parameter must be a positive number", $npp);
    }
*/