[ahmad_511]

Well, That's one of the HTTP-based data request problems,
the Server can not request or connect to the client's javascript, javascript works independently on the client's machines whilst php works on the server side.

that's why we request the server and get the information back to the client through http request.

maybe something like XML Socket (I might be wrong) can do this but unfortunately it's not available for javascript

Thanks,

[Blueorb]

Hey, thanks for putting your time and effort into this.

Unfortunately I wasnt able to get it working. It just gave me a JS error on the bottom of my browser.

Not too worried about it though, just letting you know.

Thanks anyway.

[ahmad_511]

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Unfortunately I wasnt able to get it working. It just gave me a JS error on the bottom of my browser.

What kind of error,
can you please provide the error message you got and the code you're testing.

Thanks to let me know

[Blueorb]

ahmad_511, on 15 July 2010 - 10:11 AM, said:

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Unfortunately I wasnt able to get it working. It just gave me a JS error on the bottom of my browser.

What kind of error,
can you please provide the error message you got and the code you're testing.

Thanks to let me know

Hey, I just deleted everything and tried all over again. It's working just fine now.

Thanks!

[AjusJudy]

Blueorb, on 15 July 2010 - 06:16 PM, said:

ahmad_511, on 15 July 2010 - 10:11 AM, said:

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Unfortunately I wasnt able to get it working. It just gave me a JS error on the bottom of my browser.

What kind of error,
can you please provide the error message you got and the code you're testing.

Thanks to let me know

Hey, I just deleted everything and tried all over again. It's working just fine now.

Thanks!

Hi Ahmad,
may i request can you please help with how to put time against a user, that is the time the user logs in and the time the user leaves the room. thanks you. or just record time-in and time-out in file.

[ahmad_511]

@Blueorb, Good to know

@AjusJudy, please follow these steps:
1- open the users.php file in your favorite text editor.

2- add the following function before or after the function saveUsers() :

function logEvent($event,$showAsMessage){
$logs=fopen("logs.txt","a+");
fputs($logs,"<".date("Y-m-d H:i:s")."> ".$event."\n");
fclose($logs);

if($showAsMessage){
$room=fopen("room_".$_POST['room'].".txt","a+");
fputs($room,time()."<!@!>BOT<!@!><!@!>".$event." @ ".date("Y-m-d H.i.s")."\n");
fclose($room);
}
}

this function accepts two arguments:
$event: is the string you want to log
$showAsMessage: is a boolean controls whether you want to make the legged event appears for everybody as a message on the chat box or not, (it will be saved in the log.txt file in both ways)

3- search for the sign in confirmation:

echo "signin";

and add call the logEvent() fucntion directly after it, you'll have something like this:

echo "signin";
logEvent($user." join the '".$_POST['room']."' room",true);
exit();

4- do the same for the sign out confirmation with a little change to the event message:
search this time for "signout" and call the logEvent():

echo "signout";
logEvent($user." exit the '".$_POST['room']."' room",true);
exit();

5- create a new text file "logs.txt" in the same directory where you have the php scripts and make sure it's writable.

BTW AjusJudy, I didn't forget your previous request about the database version of the chatbox, but I'm really having none stable days and barely can focus on my job.

[ahmad_511]

Hello there,

first of, I would like to thank you for the comments, and sorry for any inconvenience.

second of, I've uploaded the chatbox files with all suggested updates to my website so you can try it in action(it works fine for me as is but I updated the ajax.js to the one I already use)

http://zaksdg.com/lab/chat/

Note for Admins/Mods: please remove the link above if you see it's not appropriate to link to external site

and here is the files  chat.zip (35.4K)
Number of downloads: 302

if the live one works for you, that means there might be something with your code.
anyways, try the attached files.

Notes:
emotion codes:
3i,angr,cry,dip,lol,sad,sarc,sweet (ex :sad: or :lol:)

Tested on IE7+IE8 quirk and standard mods, FF 4.0b2, Chrome 7.0.517.8, Safari 5.0.2(7533.18.5)

if nothing helps, please add more information about error message may occurred or a link to a live version where we can see what's happening there.

Regards