Releases for phpfreechat

This is a port of phpFreeChat 5.x-1.3 to Drupal 6.x. It has been tested on Drupal 6.9. The feature set is the same - it's just been adapted to work with Drupal 6.x.

Note that you may need to set the $base_url variable in the Drupal settings.php file for this module to work properly. See install.txt for more information.

phpfreechat 5.x-1.3

5.x · Bug fixes

permutations - December 26, 2008 - 04:28

Download	Size	md5 hash
phpfreechat-5.x-1.3.tar.gz	37.47 KB	e0fae8c9125c66d1d0d29a822e4ed9d1

Official release from CVS tag: DRUPAL-5--1-3

Last updated: December 26, 2008 - 04:30

View usage statistics for this release

Admin panel settings stored internally as arrays did not work before. Now they do, with the exception of Proxies Cfg (a multidimensional array). The additional settings that now work are:

nickmeta
nickmeta_private
nickmeta_key_to_hide
admins
frozen_channels
privmsg
refresh_delay_steps
skip_proxies
post_proxies
pre_proxies
bbcode_colorlist
nickname_colorlist
dyn_params

Probably you won't use most of these, but one in particular is handy. If you are having problems with too-aggressive noflood settings (the noflood feature was added in phpFreeChat 1.2), you can use skip_proxies to disable it. Just enter "noflood" in the admin panel skip_proxies box. If you want to also disable, for example, the feature that censors bad language, enter "censor,noflood" (no quotes). For all array fields, separate values with commas.

The other change in this version is important, but invisible. The module was saving a huge amount of user settings unnecessarily, resulting in gigantic queries that could bring down a shared server. This has been fixed.

phpfreechat 5.x-1.2

5.x · Bug fixes

permutations - December 1, 2008 - 03:04

Download	Size	md5 hash
phpfreechat-5.x-1.2.tar.gz	37.01 KB	38f5f8edd0ba5097b5171663ff1e4da0

Official release from CVS tag: DRUPAL-5--1-2

Last updated: December 1, 2008 - 03:05

View usage statistics for this release

This version of the phpFreeChat module for Drupal fixes all known bugs, restores the link to the Drupal profile in the nick info box (this broke with phpFreeChat 1.1), and adds a new "away" feature. It works with phpFreeChat 1.2 (latest release).

The "away" feature is a toggle that lets users indicate when they are away from their computer, and when they are back again. It can be triggered in two ways - clicking on the new "door" button that opens and closes to indicate status, or typing /away on the command line (which also causes the door to open and close). Others in the chat are notified by a status message, and the string "(away)" is added to or removed from the user's nickname in the list. There is sometimes a slight delay between when the command is executed and when it's implemented. This is due to coding within phpFreeChat itself. The away feature will eventually be added to phpFreeChat core (the original author asked me to do that).

There is still a timeout problem - no matter how high the setting, users still time out after 20 minutes or so of inactivity. But this is a problem within phpFreeChat, not the Drupal module. The problem has been reported on the phpFreeChat site.