ET-Chat and MyBB

[Lennart]

I can't see any errors in your code, you might want to contact the creator of the ET-Chat to solve this issue.

Kind regards
Lennart Sauter

[Disciple of Nagash]

Right then, no I am a subscriber I can get help then?

I have tried following the instructions on the first page, but having some issues. Basically I installed (after transferring the best host ever: Forum Forge who installed PDO_MySQL for me) the Chat ok, figured out after 20 minutes where to change the language settings.

But the main issue is the editing in the Zusatztool_Anbindung_an_Fremduserverwaltung.php

It doesn't seem to do anything. I edited the file again and again, but still when I went to chat it asked for log in name and gender. As a test I even deleted the file as I had a suspicion that the chat wasn't using it, and funnily enough the chat worked without that file being present.

So....any ideas please?

[Lennart]

You have to read the tutorial very carefully:

Now save the file as index.php

Save the "Zusatztool_Anbindung_an_Fremduserverwaltung.php" as "index.php" overwriting the old index.php and link to that file... it won't do anything otherwise

By the way, I noticed some elementary changes in ET-Chat 3.6, there might be a possibility that this tutorial does only apply to ET-Chat 3.5 since in 3.6 the index file is changed and is now needed to stay there.

[Disciple of Nagash]

Hi,

Thank you very much for your help. I installed the previous version and have now managed to set it up.

Cheers!

[Disciple of Nagash]

[Lennart]

Thank you for the tutorial. I will hopefully find the time to write something about this lateron, there is one security hole in your script which could make any user admin inside the chat...

But nice solution, I'll add my 50 cents lateron, going to school now. Thanks!

[Disciple of Nagash]

I thought there might be a hole somewhere

If you could help fix it would be much appreciated.

[Lennart]

Okay, here we go...

A hacker could at the moment edit the index.php of the chat - he could add back the login form and then simply sign in with your username. This is possible with live editing tools like Firebug or anything.
To prevent the access to the index.php inside the chatfolder I recommend creating a .htaccess file with a redirect like that:

Code:

You are not allowed to see code.

This will make it impossible to access the file and the chat if not logged in into the forum.

If you need further help with .htaccess your favorite search engine will gladly help you out, that topic is covered by hundreds of tutorials in the www so I won't go deeper into it.

Second, if you don't want to have guest access to your chat you should add the following to the file / modify it this way:

You are not allowed to see php code.
If you modify any templates keep in mind that you have to leave the visible copyrights where they are, do respect the author.

Apart from that really good work DoN, thanks a lot!

If you don't mind, you could open a new thread with this info here in tutorial section called "ET-Chat 3.0.6 and MyBB" and I would rename this one so it would be easier for people to find.

Best regards
Lennart Sauter

[schwarz]

i will use this!

[TheoPro]

Alright ive made this work perfectly thanks to all the hard work guys, But one question

So the admins and moderators have the little symbols next to there names, how would i go to making it that my premium members have the $ sign next to theres, Is there a lot of coding involved? Thanks in advance guys.