PHPBB 3.1 - Frug

[5thAvenueForum]

I have Frug's 3.1 fix installed but I'm having the issue where when I log into the actual chat, nothing I type shows up in the chat room and no names show up on the right hand side. 

http://fifthavenueforum.com is my website and this is my chat page - http://fifthavenueforum.com/forum/chat/index.php

Does anyone have a fix for this issue?

[No No]

Lots of people are having the issue and I think it has something to do with extensions on phpbb but frug or anyone else that has worked on this chat script has been silent for a while now. I have noticed that when enabling/disabling extensions or purging cache from the acp allows the chat to work for a short period if time.

[Frug]

I haven't been able to reproduce this myself, I don't see how plugins would prevent chat from displaying text. Usually the inability to see the messages you type is something else, either cookies related, a bad mysql server timezone setting, or javascript crashing because of bad xml from the server.

Please provide access to your chat if you want someone to take a look. I don't want to register on everyone's forum or answer sports related questions to try to gain access.

[Frug]

Actually I suppose a plugin could break the database connection that chat uses. I'm not sure why or how they would do that, as that sounds like a terrible idea. You could have chat make its own db connection to bypass using the one phpbb gives it by commenting out this line: https://github.com/Frug/AJAX-Chat/blob/phpbb3.1/chat/lib/class/CustomAJAXChat.php#L20

And then put your database username/password inside your config.php. This should force chat to make its own connection. 

Unfortunately if that doesn't solve it, I can't help much. I can't support every phpbb plugin that wants to break random things. You may have luck asking the plugin authors.

[Bobby Russ]

I'll try that to see if it'll help.

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[Marcus Schreiter]

Any news regarding working chat on 3.1.8?
I tried many chat systems without beeing so happy as I was with this on phpbb3.0..

Would be great to have chats again.

Phpbb3.1 uses a really smart extension system. Isn't it possible to get our ajax chat installed using the ext-folder-tree?

Frug has to rewrite the code, I know..

Nevertheless, great work! Keep working on this :-)

Best Regards

Marcus

[Frug]

v0.8.8 works on 3.1.8 and probably fine on 3.1.9. 

Just installing chat doesn't require any use of extensions although the shoutbox can probably be done using their new extensions system. The old way should still work until then.

[Bobby Russ]

I have PHPBB 3.1.8 installed on a different domain.  No extensions, No language packs.  It gives that same error message before logging in.  After login, goes to the forum login screen with this message: "You have specified an incorrect username. Please check your username and try again. If you continue to have problems please contact the Board Administrator.". I tried the one potential fix and it does the same thing.  Not sure why.

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 Sing as if no one were listening,
 Live everyday as if it were your last,
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[Frug]

Log into your forum normally. Then open chat.

On Monday, 18 April 2016 02:32:35 UTC, Bobby Russ wrote:

I have PHPBB 3.1.8 installed on a different domain.  No extensions, No language packs.  It gives that same error message before logging in.  After login, goes to the forum login screen with this message: "You have specified an incorrect username. Please check your username and try again. If you continue to have problems please contact the Board Administrator.". I tried the one potential fix and it does the same thing.  Not sure why.

v0.8.8 works on 3.1.8 and probably fine on 3.1.9. 

Just installing chat doesn't require any use of extensions although the shoutbox can probably be done using their new extensions system. The old way should still work until then.

On Thursday, 14 April 2016 05:54:38 UTC-4, Marcus Schreiter wrote:

Any news regarding working chat on 3.1.8?
I tried many chat systems without beeing so happy as I was with this on phpbb3.0..

Would be great to have chats again.

Phpbb3.1 uses a really smart extension system. Isn't it possible to get our ajax chat installed using the ext-folder-tree?

Frug has to rewrite the code, I know..

Nevertheless, great work! Keep working on this :-)

Best Regards

Marcus

Am Sonntag, 10. April 2016 22:43:24 UTC+2 schrieb Bobby Russ:

I'll try that to see if it'll help.

Actually I suppose a plugin could break the database connection that chat uses. I'm not sure why or how they would do that, as that sounds like a terrible idea. You could have chat make its own db connection to bypass using the one phpbb gives it by commenting out this line: https://github.com/Frug/AJAX-Chat/blob/phpbb3.1/chat/lib/class/CustomAJAXChat.php#L20

And then put your database username/password inside your config.php. This should force chat to make its own connection. 

Unfortunately if that doesn't solve it, I can't help much. I can't support every phpbb plugin that wants to break random things. You may have luck asking the plugin authors.

On Sunday, 10 April 2016 11:41:04 UTC-4, Frug wrote:

I haven't been able to reproduce this myself, I don't see how plugins would prevent chat from displaying text. Usually the inability to see the messages you type is something else, either cookies related, a bad mysql server timezone setting, or javascript crashing because of bad xml from the server.

Please provide access to your chat if you want someone to take a look. I don't want to register on everyone's forum or answer sports related questions to try to gain access.

On Thursday, 7 April 2016 22:49:36 UTC-4, No No wrote:

Lots of people are having the issue and I think it has something to do with extensions on phpbb but frug or anyone else that has worked on this chat script has been silent for a while now. I have noticed that when enabling/disabling extensions or purging cache from the acp allows the chat to work for a short period if time.

On Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 10:55:44 AM UTC-5, 5thAvenueForum wrote:

I have Frug's 3.1 fix installed but I'm having the issue where when I log into the actual chat, nothing I type shows up in the chat room and no names show up on the right hand side. 

http://fifthavenueforum.com is my website and this is my chat page - http://fifthavenueforum.com/forum/chat/index.php

Does anyone have a fix for this issue?

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[Bobby Russ]

Still can't type text that will send. 

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[cpg]

Hallo,
I think, IT WORKS - FINE - THANKS!!!
Can I use the old "show onlineusers" (in inculde/functions.php) for the new version?
Best regards
CPG

[Frug]

@No No: your server configuration seems to be the problem. Your chat is not accepting _GET parameters (also known as query string parameters) in the URL. 

On a properly set up server, if you try to view yourdomain.com/chat/?ajax=true you will see xml output. On yours it just ignores the ajax=true part and displays chat normally. 

This is either because of an .htaccess file (or your virtual hosts configuration) you've got using mod rewrite, or some settings you've changed from default in your apache config. 

On Monday, 18 April 2016 04:50:11 UTC, Bobby Russ wrote:

Still can't type text that will send. 

Log into your forum normally. Then open chat.

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 Sing as if no one were listening,
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[Frug]

@cpg I haven't tried it but it probably works. I'll give it a shot and let you know. Or you can back up your functions.php and try. 

[Bobby Russ]

Any idea on my issue frug?  I'd like to move away from the half working 0.8.7 with phpbb 3.1 that I have running. 

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[cpg]

THANKS FRUG, IT WORKS. The online-users are shown!

Am Donnerstag, 7. April 2016 17:55:44 UTC+2 schrieb 5thAvenueForum:

[cpg]

I don't user "chat_label", but it makes a crash:

Illegal use of $_SERVER. You must use the request class or request_var() to access input data. Found in /home/phpBB3/includes/functions.php on line 5722. This error message was generated by deactivated_super_global.

The code at line 5722:
if(!defined('AJAX_CHAT_PATH')) {
                 define('AJAX_CHAT_PATH', realpath(dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']).'/chat').'/');

              }

Am Donnerstag, 7. April 2016 17:55:44 UTC+2 schrieb 5thAvenueForum:

[Frug]

Thanks for the feedback.

phpBB disables the use of all superglobals like _SERVER because they're jerks.

Maybe if you change the top of your function from this

function getShoutBoxContent()

{

global $phpEx, $phpbb_root_path;

To this

function getShoutBoxContent()

{

global $phpEx, $phpbb_root_path, $request;

$request->enable_super_globals();

It will stop complaining.

[cpg]

Hallo Frug,

I have no shoutbox-function, but this parts:

 $chatters = '';
    $sql = 'SELECT u.user_id, u.username, u.user_colour FROM ajax_chat_online c, ' . USERS_TABLE . ' u
    WHERE c.userID = u.user_id';
    $result = $db->sql_query($sql);
    while ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)) {
       $chatters .= get_username_string('full', $row['user_id'], $row['username'], $row['user_colour']) . ', ';
    }
    $db->sql_freeresult($result);

    if ($chatters == '') {$chatters = 'Keine Mitglieder im Chat';}
    else {$chatters = '<b>Im Chat:</b></a><br />' . substr($chatters, 0, -2);}

and

 'CHATTERS'         => $chatters,

and

 function getChatInterface() {
           static $ajaxChat;

           if(!$ajaxChat) {
              // URL to the chat directory:
              if(!defined('AJAX_CHAT_URL')) {
                 define('AJAX_CHAT_URL', './chat/');
              }

              // Path to the chat directory:

              if(!defined('AJAX_CHAT_PATH')) {
                 define('AJAX_CHAT_PATH', realpath(dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']).'/chat').'/');
              }

              // Validate the path to the chat:
              if(@is_file(AJAX_CHAT_PATH.'lib/classes.php')) {

                 // Include Class libraries:
                 require_once(AJAX_CHAT_PATH.'lib/classes.php');

                 // Initialize the chat interface:
                 $ajaxChat = new CustomAJAXChatInterface();
              }
           }

           return $ajaxChat;
        }

        function getChatOnlineUsers() {
           return ($chatInterface = getChatInterface()) ? $chatInterface->getOnlineUsers() : array();
        }

        function getChatOnlineUserIDs() {
           return ($chatInterface = getChatInterface()) ? $chatInterface->getOnlineUserIDs() : array();
}


This works - but not the "chat_label"

Best regards
cpg

Am Donnerstag, 7. April 2016 17:55:44 UTC+2 schrieb 5thAvenueForum:

[cpg]

Maybe it ist a little mistake in /chat/?view=logs

Am Donnerstag, 7. April 2016 17:55:44 UTC+2 schrieb 5thAvenueForum:

[cpg]

Hallo Frug,

this works:
'CHAT_TITLE'               => 'Online: '.$chatters,

Regards
cpg

[rich moore]

Did you ever get this figured out? I'm having the same issue.

[rich moore]

I haven't changed any settings to the apache config, and I don't have an .htaccess file. If I do the /?ajax=true url, I get the same blank chat window as well. Any idea? I'm running phpBB 3.1.9.

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[Alex Leipzig]

Hi,

I could see that the chat is now working as designed in your forum.

I have tried many suggestions from different threads including this one here to get it integrated but it remains with the following issues.

Major:

- when being logged on to the forum and then go to the chat URL it displays the chat but nothing appears when typing, no online users are shown and the logout button does nothing
- when not being logged on to the forum and going to the chat URL guest login does nothing (even though it is enabled by default) and when entering a valid username and password from the forum it goes to the forum logon page and displays "Incorrect username or password"
- when adding /?ajax=true at the end of the chat URL it does not display the XML data and remains in the normal chat page

--->>> Could you please help and let me know what exactly you changed in which files file that we can get that awesome chat running in our forum?

Minor:

- after running the install.php it created the tables but I am not sure if it somehow also should have created a link in the forum itself? At the moment we can only get to the chat by typing /chat behind the forum URL

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Forum URL: http://www.lok-forum.com
Chat-URL: http://www.lok-forum.com/chat
Chat version: 0.8.8 for phpbb 3.1

phpbb version: 3.1.6
PHP Version 5.6.26-pl0-gentoo

**********************************************

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Alex

Am Donnerstag, 7. April 2016 17:55:44 UTC+2 schrieb 5thAvenueForum:

[Frug]

Minor changes were made to install.php in 2016 but this has nothing to do with linking chat to your forum. That is done by editing your forum template.

No changes were made to the way it handles putting something like ?ajax=true at the end of the URL, so if that's broken for you it has nothing to do with phpbb3.1 integration. Your server may have some configuration issue preventing that from working and unfortunately that's not something I can help with. This is called a GET parameter (also called a querystring parameter) and it's essential that these are passed to the script by your server. If I visit http://www.lok-forum.com/chat/?ajax=true it looks correct to me. Your 3.1 version should be the same.

Guest logins have not been changed. It's part of your chat configuration whether or not to allow guests. Entering a username/password into the login part of chat has always been a problem with integration versions, the solution is to log into your forum first.

[Frug]

Quite right, thank you for pointing this out.

[Alex Leipzig]

Thanks a lot for your reply, Frug.

We got this now working using the workaround of having the integrated version along with the standalone installed at the same time. It is described either in this thread here or another on in the Google group. There are 2 separate chat folders while the one that works is the standalone one, the integrated one is only doing the authentication of users. To login to the chat from the forum the link in the forum is pointing to the integrated chat and in the custom.php of the integrated chat I placed a line that automatically redirects to the standalone chat version, I had no clue how to do that, just the idea, Google then helped me that this can be done by using header("Location: URL .

To prevent confusion for the users who are not currently logged in to the forum I removed the password field in the loggedOut.html of the standalone one and entered a text telling users that only guest login is possible and to logon with forum account I advised to logon there first and then use the link to the chat in the forum.

*************************************

Since I really have no clue but due to the fact that the standalone works like a charme I doubt that it is related to a server setting that the integrated version does not show any users or sending a message does not work or that guest login does not work (the setting to allow guests is enabled by default in both chat versions), I can only imagine that it is related to some code in the files that are different in both versions, the integrated and the standalone one (there is a difference in I think 3 files only) but I really had no clue how to find out what would cause the standalone to work and the integrated not.

Anyway, we are happy that it works with the setup we have right now even though it is not "out of the box".. ;)

[Frug]

Hm. Well if I'm ever able to reproduce that problem, i'll fix it. Or if someone can give me more information on it so I can find out where to look. I still highly doubt ?ajax=true at the end of the url being broken is a possibility.

[biggardo]

I am having the same issue (username not showing when logging in to chat, invalid username/password when trying to log in, loads regular chat page when trying ?ajax=true, etc.)

I tried logging out and then logging in to my forum but that didn't make a difference.

I also don't believe it to be a server issue, as I had the chat working last week. All I changed was to upgrade my phpbb forum from 3.0.14 to 3.1.10. I downloaded the ajax 3.1 files, ran the install.php, but for whatever reason I am not seeing anything show up in the database (no messages, no online users)

my website: http://www.starwarsccg.org/forums/chat

[biggardo]

posted this in a different topic, but thought I'd post it here as well

In my error log files, I am seeing this:

Invalid argument: mod_fcgid: can't lock process table in pid 2262, referer: http://www.starwarsccg.org/forums/chat/index.php

It isn't always doing that, and that could have been when I was trying to change the base path or do something else. 

I'm also seeing this request in my access log file:

"GET /forums/chat/?ajax=true&lastID=0 HTTP/1.1" 200 26950 "http://www.starwarsccg.org/forums/chat/?channelName=Public&sid=30d8f7fb52af4cc5da96d50f8f378ae0"

[Frug]

The mod_fcgid error isn't something I can do anything about, but if it's not happening each time you request the page, then it's not the cause of the problem. 

The GET request looks correct. You were sitting in the public channel and javascript made a request to /forums/chat/?ajax=true&lastID=0. Clearly the problem is that either I, through some silly omission, or the phpbb guys through some silly decision of theirs, is breaking the query parameters. If /forums/chat/?ajax=true&lastID=0 gives you regular HTML, there's no way chat can work. 

Before I look through my code, open your chat/index.php and add this just before // Initialize the chat: (line 22)

var_dump($_GET);

die();

//Initialize the chat:

And tell me what you see when you view the page index.php?ajax=true . It should say: array(1) { ["ajax"]=> string(4) "true" }

If it says that, the fault is with me.

[biggardo]

After adding that code it does say array(1) { ["ajax"]=> string(4) "true" }

[Coder1010]

 
I have the same problem:

- when being logged on to the forum and then go to the chat URL it displays the chat but nothing appears when typing, no online users are shown and the logout button does nothing

- when adding /?ajax=true at the end of the chat URL it does not display the XML data and remains in the normal chat page

I have PHPbb 3.1.10

[Coder1010]

I have been reading about this issue and I have understood it so that problem started with PHPbb version 3.1.

Could  the problem be with listeners priorities ?

Prioritising event listeners (optional)

Sometimes different extensions can run into problems when competing for use of the same PHP core events. In trying to resolve these issues, the extension developer may want to prioritise their extension over others, so that their extension will be triggered before other extensions.

 https://area51.phpbb.com/docs/dev/31x/extensions/tutorial_events.html

[Coder1010]

Could the problem be in autogenerated passwords ? I think those special characters causes problems etc this one:    [

For me was automatically genarated this password and I can not connect to database:

$dbpasswd = 6eRS[60p.;

// phpBB 3.1.x auto-generated configuration file

// Do not change anything in this file!

$dbms = 'phpbb\\db\\driver\\mysqli';

$dbhost = 'localhost';

$dbport = '';

$dbname = 'iwt21_iwnt';

$dbuser = 'iwnt21_iant';

$dbpasswd = '6eNRS[60p.';

[Coder1010]

Also some texts refers that PHPbb 3.1 has started to use new algo in passwords and problems with AJAX CHAT started also at the same time ?

Text which refers into this kind:

How would you go about using phpBB 3.1.x password hashing algorithm from an external script?

I have scoured the web/phpbb forums but to no avail. They all refer to the old method of using phpbb_hash() function, which is now deprecated.

Basically, what code is needed to successfully hash a user supplied password using phpBB's 3.1.x's algorithm?
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=461&t=2288631

[Frug]

Chat doesn't use your password to connect to the db. It expects a connection to be established by phpbb and set as a global variable $db

[Coder1010]

Could the problem be in paths ?

I a trying to get this chat to work today  :)

 

 

copies:

I'm experiencing some major problem while migrating my site from phpBB 3.0 to 3.1

https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=466&t=2283661

 

 

 I'd like to point out that $phpbb_root_path as nothing to do with the URL! It's related to the filesystem path to the phpBB installation directory, relative to the current executing PHP script (intended as "PHP file"). In a very basic scenario you can ignore the difference, but when mod_rewrites are in it's important to work it in the right way.

Since I needed to fix this issue quickly, I punched through with an horror such as this (SiteDir is a constant defined as the path to my site root, i.e. /user/site/): 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20384292/relative-path-issue-when-including-phpbb-code

 

My forum folder is (root path)/forums/, so this works perfectly as long as the executing script is in the root folder of the domain. However, if I try to include this code from another folder, it throws the following error:

 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20384292/relative-path-issue-when-including-phpbb-code

 

 

 

 

 

I think the path was really one problem. 

If I add chat index into phpbb root it gets connection to database.  So one have to add the file into root of phpbb. 

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Now I am step closer, however now getting this error:

Illegal use of $_SERVER. You must use the request class or request_var() to access input data. Found in /home/iwant21/public_html/site/lib/class/AJAXChat.php on line 400. This error message was generated by deactivated_super_global.

I think I could solve that:

Problem is that PHPbb 3.1 do not allow superglobals like  $_SERVER:

 

I could use instead of this: 

 

$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])) {

$this->logout('IP');

 

 

I could use this:

  

The user of super globals has been disabled in 3.1.x. I was forced to modify my code to avoid use of $_SERVER.

  

You should use something like this:

$this->request->server('REMOTE_ADDR')

or

$request->server('REMOTE_ADDR')

if request is a lokal object.

 

https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=466&t=2279446

 

OR BY THIS

$request->enable_super_globals();

$form->some_function_that_ends_up_using_a_server_variable();

$request->disable_super_globals(); 

 

https://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=45027

 

From <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ajax-chat/Q6Uap32ayro>

[Coder1010]

Got it to work.

Friendly Lunarpages stuff installed AJAX CHAT to me. They made it to work with PHPbb 3.2. I understood that it happened without problems. Earlies I tried it with PHPbb 3.1 without success.

 http://frug.github.io/AJAX-Chat/

I also installed it with Simple machines, it was easy and working fine.Simple machines version 2.0.11

[Frug]

Thanks for the info. Glad it's working for you.