There has to be "somebody" in here that can figure out how to get the active user status (number of users in Chime) to display on a separate page?

We all know that you can see them on the Chime homepage. Isn't there some way to pull this script (or tags) and embed on another Groupee page (i.e. forums homepage) to show the active Chime users?

http://boards.globalgreyhounds.com/eve/chime

It is possible, but probably not easy.

I know of a method and am looking into it. I'll let you know what I find.

Thanks Steven....you rock!

Okay, I have some good news and some bad news.

First, the good news. I've got this partially implemented in PHP by having a PHP script make a get request to the chat page's xml (this requires the 'View XML' permission to be given to guests). The bad news is, for some reason, from time to time, the xml it gets is incomplete. In other words, its missing chunks, and thus cannot be parsed.

I'm not entirely sure what causes this, but its not the script because getting the xml directly through my browser yields the same problem.

I'll spend some more time later on trying to figure this out.

Hey Steven,

Out of curiosity why not just query the database and look at the IP_IM_PARTICIPANTS table?

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Out of curiosity why not just query the database and look at the IP_IM_PARTICIPANTS table?

Because I wasn't aware of that table. I did finish up an implementation which Stonehaven is using and its probably more scalable than querying the db repetitively.

ooh, you have a what??

The particular solution I came up with only works on dedicated servers. If you are on a dedicated server and are interested in using this Chat content island, then private message me and we can talk about getting it installed for you.

I may look into building one later this fall that would work on shared-servers too, but I don't have the time right now.

Darn.

OK, thanks.

So far so good! Thanks so much Steven.

You earn your "Customer #1" title....this feature was definitely needed and my users are happy about its addition.

Let me know if you ever need anything!