Toksta Chat Integration

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Toksta provides highly scalable instant messenger and chat solutions for online communities such as social networks, dating sites and forums. All applications are hosted by toksta and offer a rich design customization.

Integrate the toksta IM in less than 5 minutes and increase user engagement and time on site. Excite your community.

Steps to Install:-

1. Register an account with
Code: 
http://www2.toksta.com/en/public/
- Add Application (Add Site) - Add Application (Add Site) - Select Free Plan - Note the App ID and App Password

2. Upload toksta_controller.html to the root of your domain. The file must be available through
Code: 
 www.your-domain.com/toksta_controller.html
afterwards.

3. Import the Product -> go to vBulletin Option Settings -> Instant Toksta Chat -> enter your App ID and App Password and Enable the product.

4. Edit your footer template and add this at the very end:
PHP: 
<!-- Toksta Chat -->
<if condition="!is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, 1, 8)">
<script type="text/javascript">
var TOKSTA_CONFIG = {
    app_id : "$tk_app_id",
    user_id: "$tk_user_id",
    user_hash: "$tk_hash",
    user_data: "$tk_user_data",
    generated : "1240098757",
    im : {
        advanced_search : ["gender","age","city","country","single"]
    },
    chatbar : {
        showUserData : ["gender","age"]
    }
};
</script>
<script src="http://embed.toksta.com/embed/toksta.js" type="text/javascript"></script></if>
<!-- End Toksta Chat -->

Steps to Uninstall:-

1. Uninstall the Product.

2. Remove the Toksta Chat code from the footer template that you added in Step 4.


Pros:- Looks cool, can bring some fun | No bandwidth, server usage as everything is hosted on their server.

Cons:- Not for everybody as it may bring down forum activity | Currently only Mozilla Firefox is supported but they are constantly upgrading their code so all browsers should be supported very soon.

FAQ:
a) Should work for all 3.X version of vBulletin.
b) To disable chat for certain usergroups, simply edit the conditional part in the Step 4 code. Also note that I have already disabled chat for Guests and Banned usergroup (1 and 8).
c) If the chatbar doesn't show up - Make sure you have enabled the product (its disabled by default), and confirm your App ID and App Password.
d) About load - just 1 small global plugin, 0 queries.
e) Don't ask for a Demo please as I don't have one. It would take a minute to install this and test yourself.
f) Also check out the paid plans at their site if you are interested in a lot of customizations and higher limits. Free plan is very basic but sufficient for most of us.

Referance: Toksta Chat for vBulletin
 
WOW!!

I've been dreaming of this for the last few months!

Thank you VERY much indeed.

Edit:

This is faaaar from what I am after. Some things are similar to Facebook chat- but the important things are not.

I'll give some examples:

  1. This app DOES NOT add chat to the STATUS BAR. It adds it to it's OWN status bar, above Firefox's status bar
  2. The 2nd status bar that gets added- covers the footer links on your forum, so you cannot click them. This includes the link to your admin control panel.
  3. Friends on your forum friends list are NOT automatically added as a 'friend' on the chat... you need to re-add them again
  4. Chat opens in a new window, not like on Facebook where it's just a little pop-up off the status bar
  5. The adverts are huge, and very annoying
  6. To get this add-on to be worth touching- It will cost you $249 per month... Who the hell can justify paying that?

Would be nice if someone bought enterprise edition and nulled it though lol.

Thanks for sharing- But due to the above, and a few other factors... I will NOT be using this mod. It sucks :)
 
Hi VbTeam Community,
My Name is Joe from Toksta and I am here to clearify a couple of things.
Firt of all Thank your for writing this Plugin allthough we now do offer
a plugin for VBb. I have noticed some minor bugs in your setup:

  1. The userID is not set, this needs to be done in order to identify
    each user by their unique ID and thus e.g. to start a chat with a specific
    user from your profile.
  2. There is a MD5 Hash function in our setup which needs to be executed
    in order to acces our server with your provided application and password
  3. the userdata needs to be set in order to be able to acces user
    profiles etc. from the messenger and to have the avatars displayed properly.
Still thank you very much for creating this implementation.

@h@ck3r
  1. The statusbar can be hidden in order to not have it displayed (available in our PRO version)
  2. When our Chatbar is added it implies itself to your design so maybe a
    couple of <br /> in front of the snipped will solve your issue
  3. this can be achieved through the api
  4. this is true, but on the other hand we are completly plug and play
  5. adverts can be disabled in their appropriate plans
  6. Although the pricing seems to be high for many smaller sites, im hosting
    and especially video streaming is very expensive and we are already 20-30%
    cheaper than the market leader Userplane.com

And finally, a nulification of the script would not work because of point 6.

If you have any further questions feel free to contact us through our
website toksta - the chat provider .
with regards.
Joe from toksta* support
 
Toksta said:
Hi VbTeam Community,
My Name is Joe from Toksta and I am here to clearify a couple of things.
Firt of all Thank your for writing this Plugin allthough we now do offer
a plugin for VBb. I have noticed some minor bugs in your setup:

  1. The userID is not set, this needs to be done in order to identify
    each user by their unique ID and thus e.g. to start a chat with a specific
    user from your profile.
  2. There is a MD5 Hash function in our setup which needs to be executed
    in order to acces our server with your provided application and password
  3. the userdata needs to be set in order to be able to acces user
    profiles etc. from the messenger and to have the avatars displayed properly.
Still thank you very much for creating this implementation.

@h@ck3r
  1. The statusbar can be hidden in order to not have it displayed (available in our PRO version)
  2. When our Chatbar is added it implies itself to your design so maybe a
    couple of <br /> in front of the snipped will solve your issue
  3. this can be achieved through the api
  4. this is true, but on the other hand we are completly plug and play
  5. adverts can be disabled in their appropriate plans
  6. Although the pricing seems to be high for many smaller sites, im hosting
    and especially video streaming is very expensive and we are already 20-30%
    cheaper than the market leader Userplane.com

And finally, a nulification of the script would not work because of point 6.

If you have any further questions feel free to contact us through our
website toksta - the chat provider .
with regards.
Joe from toksta* support
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Thanks, but if I were you- Id release it for free (Full version) now, since CometChat has taken this industry by storm at the moment, and we have it here for free ;)
 
h@ck3r said:
Thanks, but if I were you- Id release it for free (Full version) now, since CometChat has taken this industry by storm at the moment, and we have it here for free ;)
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Hey h@ck3r,
There is a fundamental difference between the 2 services as our solution is completly managed and clustured on our servers in order to take the load of you website where as Comet needs to be installed and maintained at your own server.

best wishes
Joe
 
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