SMF 1.0b5 integration

[Naito]

I have a modified yabbse.php AuthMod file that'll make X7 integrated with SMF.  Anyone interested?

[E-Oreo]

If you want you can E-Mail me the file at webmaster@x7chat.com and I will put it in the download package for people to use if they use an SMF system.  I would appreciate it very much and of course you would get credit for it.

[Naito]

I have sent it to your email, have you received it?

[E-Oreo]

yes, I'm very sorry that I have not gotten it uploaded yet.  I will do that right away.

The SMF AuthMod file is available here: http://x7chat.com/mods/smf.zip (http://x7chat.com/mods/smf.zip).  Thank you very much for your help in translating it

I will be adding it to the download package soon (I just need to write some simple install instructions), and updating the credits section of the readme

[Guest]

cool! thanks!  

[Kindred]

OK,

I have X7 Chat working just fine for a straight path login...

I am trying to get it to work under SMF 1.0 RC2.

I have the SMF.PHP file and have modified the file so that it correctly points to the settings.php file in the SMF directory.

When I run the smf.php, however, it gives me a blank screen... no errors, just a blank white browser screen...

any ideas?

[E-Oreo]

Its probably trying to require(); a file that isn't there.

Make sure that X7 Chat is in a subdirectory of the SMF installation.  If it works standalone then there is probably a require(); problem in the smf.php file.  The only require(); statements in the default file are in these lines at the top:

Code:

if($isbase == "notset"){
require("../../Settings.php");
}else{
require("../Settings.php");
}

Is this the section that you modified?  (If so, what did you change it to)

[Kindred]

Well, I don't want to install it as a subdirectory of SMF...

I changed the require statement to read:

Code:

if($isbase == "notset"){
require("../community/Settings.php");
}else{
require("../community/Settings.php");
}

However, just as a note, I did try placing the chat as a subdirectory of the SMF directory. I have the exact same problem. It went to a blank white browser screen.

[E-Oreo]

You'll need to change it to

Code:

if($isbase == "notset"){
require("../../community/Settings.php");
}else{
require("../community/Settings.php");
}

And so your chat is set up at something like http://yoursite.com/chat (http://yoursite.com/chat) and your board is at http://yoursite.com/community/ (http://yoursite.com/community/) right?

[Kindred]

Ok, file changed as you show... but I am still hvaing problems.

If you are willing to check this out to help me, I have set up a user called "testuser" password "test" on SMF.


below is the link to my SMF board
http://www.turtleshellprod.com/community (http://www.turtleshellprod.com/community)

I do not currently have a link in the board to the x7Chat, but when I type
http://www.turtleshellprod.com/x7chat/smf.php (http://www.turtleshellprod.com/x7chat/smf.php)
into the browser (going directly from the SMF community index page), I get a blank browser screen.


note:   eventually I will be attempting to hit the chat from within the portal. I am currently experimenting with OCPortal and Mambo...   In theory, since both of these portals use the SMF user-data, there should be no different in the access method for X7Chat, yes?
 

[aaron]

I am having the same issue. I have made sure that both point to SMF's "Settings.php". I continue to also get the blank screen. I am also using SMF RC2. Any suggestions?

thanks!
aaron

[E-Oreo]

Visit http://www.turtleshellprod.com/x7chat/index.php (http://www.turtleshellprod.com/x7chat/index.php) instead of smf.php, smf.php is just an integration file and only contains internal code that tells X7 Chat how to access the database.

[Kindred]

OK...   I finally understand what I was doing wrong.
I didn't realize that smf.php was defined in the config.php at install time.
I did an uninstall/re-install and it now recognizes SMF users as valid chat users.

Now, however, another issue is raised (actually, 2 issues)

1- When the user logs in, it recognizes him as a valid user and transmits the USERNAME field over just fine. However, none of the other information from his profile in SMF is transferred to X7chat. The Profile in Chat is blank.
If the user enters information in the profile in chat, it says "ok" but the next time the profile is viewed, it is still blank.
Since X7Chat doesn't appear to be storing user information, I can not define user specific permissions...

2- Users are not logged out when they log out of SMF.


And one other quick question... since user logins are defined by SMF login, is there any way to get rid of the Logout button?

[aaron]

ooops... sorry! i didnt realize that. it works great! thanks!

[E-Oreo]

You can modify the lib/html.php and frames/new.top.php files to remove the logout button.

Profile data is not transfer, but should be stored, if it isn't there then there must be a problem with the integration file inserting accounts.  Are you having that problem also aaron?

The SMF doesn't delete the X7 Chat cookie so they are not logged out.  If you wanted to, you could modify the SMF files to delete the X7 Chat cookie also when you logout.