adding chat bar like facebook

Hey There!

How can I add a chat bar, so that you can speak to your friends without posting something on there profile, like facebook where you have the chat log at the bottom of the screen.

Is this possible?

Thanks

Ryan

Anyone???

You can use Meebo Bar and get the html code and paste it in your homepage message.

Admin Panel >> Display Tab >> Under Homepage >> Generalities >> Message >> Paste Code >> Save

Mario, they give HTML code? I contacted them about 1 month ago and got rejected cuz I dont have access to server to add the meebo file.

Cody, have you by any chance just added it, or are you just talk on this?

Use the option: Host ur own blog and use the 1st code which is

Code:


if (typeof Meebo == 'undefined') {
Meebo=function(){(Meebo._=Meebo._||[]).push(arguments)};
(function(q){
  var args = arguments;
  if (!document.body) { return setTimeout(function(){ args.callee.apply(this, args) }, 100); }
  var d=document, b=d.body, m=b.insertBefore(d.createElement('div'), b.firstChild); s=d.createElement('script');
  m.id='meebo'; m.style.display='none'; m.innerHTML='';
  s.src='http'+(q.https?'s':'')+'://'+(q.stage?'stage-':'')+'cim.meebo.com/cim/cim.php?network='+q.network;
  b.insertBefore(s, b.firstChild);

})({network:'testorial_ra24go'});
Meebo('makeEverythingSharable');
}

<script type="text/javascript">
if (typeof Meebo == 'undefined') {
Meebo=function(){(Meebo._=Meebo._||[]).push(arguments)};
(function(q){
  var args = arguments;
  if (!document.body) { return setTimeout(function(){ args.callee.apply(this, args) }, 100); }
  var d=document, b=d.body, m=b.insertBefore(d.createElement('div'), b.firstChild); s=d.createElement('script');
  m.id='meebo'; m.style.display='none'; m.innerHTML='<iframe id="meebo-iframe"></iframe>';
  s.src='http'+(q.https?'s':'')+'://'+(q.stage?'stage-':'')+'cim.meebo.com/cim/cim.php?network='+q.network;
  b.insertBefore(s, b.firstChild);

})({network:'testorial_ra24go'});
Meebo('makeEverythingSharable');
}
</script>


And insert it into your homepage message, as MrMario has said, however DO NOT USE THIS CODE, you will be able to actually manage your code if you create one yourself & it will have the name & URL changes done for you.


P.S. Mario It's Javascript NOT HTML
Noob

hey Guys

thanks for the message back but what I mean is talking to your friends on the forum who are on-line.. not friends from facebook etc.

Also i have pasted the code onto the homepage message and nothing?

Thanks

Yeah it only works on the Portal page and if you add it to Site description it does not work?

Minimj wrote:hey Guys

thanks for the message back but what I mean is talking to your friends on the forum who are on-line.. not friends from facebook etc.

Also i have pasted the code onto the homepage message and nothing?

Thanks

I'm sorry but it would only work for facebook I'm assuming, I can look into this further tomorrow, when I'm more awake for you.
Are you inserting your own code from the bar.membo.com site, as in make ur own details and they will generate a code for you.

big927 wrote:Yeah it only works on the Portal page and if you add it to Site description it does not work?

I added it in the homepage message and it worked

halo..
i just tried too.. but i didn't works..
confuse how darrent did it perfectly..

endless_bachless@yahoo.co wrote:halo..
i just tried too.. but i didn't works..
confuse how darrent did it perfectly..

Put it in your homepage message

Ill try some template editing out tomorrow morning when I'm a tad fresher than I am now too

darren1 wrote:

I'm sorry but it would only work for facebook I'm assuming, I can look into this further tomorrow, when I'm more awake for you.
Are you inserting your own code from the bar.membo.com site, as in make ur own details and they will generate a code for you.

Yes i am doing that but id prefer if you can only talk to friends on the forum not anywhere else if you get me, just makes it easier to chat that way than to send them a private message or posting something on there profile

Also my homepage is a html made one...

I have found this but dunno how to do it lol

http://gausarts.com/iblog/adding-facebook-chat-panel-wordpress-way

and this

http://gausarts.com/iblog/facebook-chat-panel-drupal-chat-module

Exactly how I want it lol

Minimj wrote:

darren1 wrote:

I'm sorry but it would only work for facebook I'm assuming, I can look into this further tomorrow, when I'm more awake for you.
Are you inserting your own code from the bar.membo.com site, as in make ur own details and they will generate a code for you.

Yes i am doing that but id prefer if you can only talk to friends on the forum not anywhere else if you get me, just makes it easier to chat that way than to send them a private message or posting something on there profile

Also my homepage is a html made one...

Sorry but because you'd need DataBase access to locate and define 'friends' on the forum, it isn't possible.

Minimj wrote:I have found this but dunno how to do it lol

http://gausarts.com/iblog/adding-facebook-chat-panel-wordpress-way

and this

http://gausarts.com/iblog/facebook-chat-panel-drupal-chat-module

Exactly how I want it lol

Sorry, but because thats CSS, and I am not strongly knowledged about CSS, I cannot aid you, hopefully one of our resident coders can

oo okay but how come the meebo is showing up though?

I'm not sure if this will help you out but, thanks to your posting this, I went to meebo and created a chat bar for my forum. I not only saw that you can manually send out invites to specific people that may use your chat bar on your forum, but I also did a bit of js code tweaking in order to set the code into the site description so you can have the bar on all your forum pages.

Yes, your members will be able to add any and/or all of their other im chat accounts to their version of the meebo bar that is on your forum, but at the same time you'll be able to control who can and cannot use the bar on your forum. This does mean that everyone would need to set up a meebo account, but it's free, so really shouldn't be any harm.

As for making it appear on all pages, you'll need to take the code (minus the opening and closing <script tags), paste it into a txt document, preferably 'notepad', save the file as 'all files' with a name such as 'meebo.js', or whatever you like. You can then upload the .js file to any server (ripway is a free one) that hosts files and not just images, then post the following into your site description:

Code:

<script src=" enter the url of the uploaded .js file "></script>

Do not forget to take out the script tags when saving all the information into your word document, and remember to readd them when posting it into the site description of your forum.

Hope this helps.

ok when i put the code on the message thing i get nothing just a big code on my board??

Kyouri wrote:I'm not sure if this will help you out but, thanks to your posting this, I went to meebo and created a chat bar for my forum. I not only saw that you can manually send out invites to specific people that may use your chat bar on your forum, but I also did a bit of js code tweaking in order to set the code into the site description so you can have the bar on all your forum pages.

Yes, your members will be able to add any and/or all of their other im chat accounts to their version of the meebo bar that is on your forum, but at the same time you'll be able to control who can and cannot use the bar on your forum. This does mean that everyone would need to set up a meebo account, but it's free, so really shouldn't be any harm.

As for making it appear on all pages, you'll need to take the code (minus the opening and closing <script tags), paste it into a txt document, preferably 'notepad', save the file as 'all files' with a name such as 'meebo.js', or whatever you like. You can then upload the .js file to any server (ripway is a free one) that hosts files and not just images, then post the following into your site description:

Code:

<script src=" enter the url of the uploaded .js file "></script>

Do not forget to take out the script tags when saving all the information into your word document, and remember to readd them when posting it into the site description of your forum.

Hope this helps.

When you mean take the <script parts away do you mean the code were giving via meebo or the code you just gave us?

@ minimj:
The code given by meebo. You'll remove:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">

from the beginning and

Code:

</script>

from the end.

@ DamnedAngel:
If you've followed the portion of creating your own .js file and uploading it, you'll need to input the shortened version into your site description under the General > Configuration tab on the ACP.

If you only want the meebo bar on the index page of your forum then you'll leave the entire code intact and just place it into your homepage message as Sanket said.

ya i m getting da bar 4 the time the page is loading as soon as the loading ends the bar cant be found..

I think with a little tweaking we could actually reformat the bar to also host parts of our site, or even post alerts when someone's posted in a topic

Edit: Actually I found the way to add the links to your chatbar. Note: You wont be able to add a topic refresh link, but you will be able to link forums, categories, off site info, and templates.

Click the Meebo Bar Link posted by Mario -> Click manage it here -> Click on the blogger/wordtype service you put your bar for -> (I used Moveable Type Site -> Scroll down click next -> Click Go to my Button settings -> Click Site menu -> Just add in the links and click save and your ready to go