Chat

Status/Roadmap

Review of 1.9.4 Chat Operation

• Things that work:
  • Rooms:
    • Users can move between rooms
    • Rooms with different update times seem to operate at the correct update rates.
  • Messages
    • Basic messages post on posting users screen in blue
    • Basic messages post on non-posting users screens in black
    • Private messages do not display on posting users screen
    • Private messages display on the recipient's screen in red
    • Private messages do not display on non-recipient's screen
  • Purging messages
    • If the purge time is set down from 1440 to something small for testing (15min), the purging seems to work properly
  • Browsers
    • Internet Explorer seems to work
    • Firefox seems to work
• Things that are questionable
  • Private messages stay at the bottom of the screen - not chronological with non-private messages.
    • This may be considered a feature - not sure what is typically done with private messages on chatrooms.
      • I don't like this functioning this way. Another box would probably be better, or leave the private messages in line with the others if possible.
  • The messages are currently cleared on a 1440 minute basis - with note to change to preference setting
  • Not sure what criteria is being used to update screens - how many messages? how old?
    • It seems that all messages for a given room are displayed to users that enter the room. (last 24hrs with current purge setting of 1440)
    • It appears that there was an attempt at some logic to only send messages since lastmessage. Not sure how this was supposed to work. This may have required the javascript coding that appears to have been abandoned in favor of direct print statements.
  • Users display
    • Current users in room does not always seem to be correct.
      • This needs checked with multiple machines - I'm using multiple browser windows on one machine to test.
• Things that could be added:
  • Timestamps on messages
  • Room entry notifications when new users enter rooms.
  • Room exit notifications when users exit rooms.
  • block out users selectively
  • assign colors to users
  • Logging - there are references to this in the code, but I don't think it is functional.
• Very Strange
  • Clicking on a username in the active users causes the whole tiki site to try to display in the user pane - on the user's information screen. (Firefox, IE)
  • Notice: Undefined index: lastMessage in /var/www/html/tikiwiki-1.9.2/tiki-chat_loader.php on line 83
    • I think there may be some problem with the lastMessage logic that should be used to determine which messages to display for each user session. This message appears the first time a user logs in to a room. As soon as the chatroom updates once the message goes away. maybe lastMessage is not properly initialized.

Wishlist

	Rating	Subject	Submitted by	Priority	Category	Tiki Version	Feature	Created
	(2)	Implement a searchable IRC logging solution	marclaporte	5	Community projects	1.9.x	Chat Search	2007-07
	(0)	Integrate Eteria IRC	drklght	1 low	Feature request		Chat Interaction (with the outside World)	2007-01
	(1)	link into chat messages		1 low			Chat	2004-12
	(2)	Make pjirc use the usernames from tikiwiki as the username in irc	illori	6	Feature request	1.9.x	All / Undefined Administration Chat	2006-07
	(1)	phpfreechat not installing from mods.tw.o and not working when installed from svn mods	xavi		Bug: Usability Community projects Support request	2.x 3.x Dogfood on a *.tikiwiki.org site	Chat Mods Wiki Plugin (extends basic syntax)	2009-04

Interested community members

Login	Full Name	Interested in features	LastModif
jake	Jake	Calendar Chat	25 July 06 15:53 UTC

Demo

Standards and/or other software

http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-directory_browse.php?parent=53

Other links

• Check this in v1.9.4