ITRC forumer chatroom [revamped]

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi everyone,

It's been a while and I have been busy. I have dumped realchat for phpopenchat, for greater accessibility, efficiency and simplicity.

Unlike before, you only need TCP/443 (HTTPS) port to be open to access the chatroom. You also no longer need JRE to be running on your PC. It is also lightweight, supports more users and sports a Regulars' table where any user's last access and duration can be easily viewed.

The only issue I have with phpopenchat is not being able to get the administrative interface to work. I am working around it by manually modifying its MySQL database. Anyone knows how to fix the administrative interface issue please let me know.

Revamped ITRC forumer chatroom:
https://www.beepz.com/openchat

After signing-up and clicking on the link in the email you receive regarding your account, select" ITRC forumer chatroom" under Channel during logging in.

Please let me know of any issues. Thanks.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Welcome back!

Do you have to edit the e-mails by hand, or am I being 2 fast and impatient :)

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi Merijn,

From Merjin,
> Bummer. cannot manage to get that to work
> from Linux. Now trying from Win2k, which seem
> to stall in "setting up secure connection"
> after filling in nickname (Tux) and password
> (**********), and choosing ITRC Forum
> channel, and [v] store account data

Tested on both Mozilla on Linux and IE on Windows, works fine with registration and logging in.

I am now both steven (Mozilla on Linux) and steven2 (IE on Windows) in the chatroom.

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi Merijn,

huttond has successfully registered though I have not seen him around in the chatroom. Since the database records don't have Tux, I believe your registration did not go through. Did you click on "Register"?

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

I was using Opera-7.50 on both.

Mozilla 1.5 from SuSE 9.0 refused too.
Mozilla 1.5 from Win2k it's a no-go too

Anyway, link changed in my ITRC pages already :)

still trying. also trying to register

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi Merijn,

Sridhar and Tux is in. Patrick's registered but don't see him around. I am using an older version of Mozilla (version 1.2.1) on RedHat 9.0.

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Dave Hutton]

Steven, I'm just waiting on the email back. Sometimes our exchange server can seem somewhat pokey.

Dave

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Ahhh, it's Opera that cannot deal with the registration, even though it shows a new page.

The registration cannot deal with picture url https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn/Me-ITRC-2.jpg

:)

Leaving that out for now ....
Yep, registration with Mozilla from linux with empty pic works fine ...
In the logon I now also see sridhar, but still a nogo from Opera ...
Back to mozilla. Oh wait. Mail!
Confirmation succssful.
Heh, now Opera works tooo. Whooohooo. I'm in!

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Think the mail got bounced. Try clicking on this link for confirmation:
https://www.beepz.com/openchat/confirm.php?code=ea968aaba7b3f0ef9b443aa540e1a579

Reporting-MTA: dns; beepz.com
Received-From-MTA: DNS; localhost.localdomain
Arrival-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 01:21:33 +0800

Final-Recipient: RFC822; dhutton@valspar.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.7.1
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.7.1 Access denied
Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 01:22:16 +0800

--i0LHMJwj010513.1074705739/beepz.com
Content-Type: message/rfc822

Return-Path:
Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by beepz.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0LHLVwj010505
for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 01:21:33 +0800
Received: (from nobody@localhost)
by localhost.localdomain (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id i0LHLRmI010501;
Thu, 22 Jan 2004 01:21:27 +0800
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 01:21:27 +0800
Message-Id: <200401211721.i0LHLRmI010501@localhost.localdomain>

To: dhutton@valspar.com
Subject: Registration confirmation
From: "Administrator"
Reply-To:
Errors-To:
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Priority: 1
X-MSMail-Priority: High
X-Mailer: PHPOpenChat-Mail (http://phpopenchat.sourceforge.net/)
Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1


To confirm your registration at our chat, click the link below!

https://www.beepz.com/openchat/confirm.php?code=ea968aaba7b3f0ef9b443aa540e1a579
--i0LHMJwj010513.1074705739/beepz.com--

[Steven E. Protter]

Giving it a try.

Mozilla on HP-UX

Seems a bit slow.

SEP

[Steven E. Protter]

I have gotten on and like it.

The text window doesn't seem to scroll so well.

There are occaisional error messges about header files. Probably a permissions problem.

This box, its Linux or HP-UX?

SEP

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

I am encountering the "Headers already sent" errors too. Read it somewhere that in general this error message has something to do with output displayed before session().

I know about the administrative interface issue because it was already reported as a bug by someone else to the phpopenchat developer. For the "Headers already sent" issue, I need to search whether this is a pre-existing bug, else I need to launch a bug report to the developer.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

From google,
http://www.google.com.sg/search?q=%22headers+already+sent%22+phpopenchat&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&meta

Looks like this is a common problem but not sure of the solution.

Error message:
==========================================================
Bad $rs in GetUpdateSQL. Connection or SQL invalid. Try using $connection->debug=true;

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/openchat/include/adodb/adodb-lib.inc.php:224) in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/openchat/include/class.Template.inc on line 226
==========================================================

Line 224 of adodb...:
224 printf(ADODB_BAD_RS,'GetUpdateSQL');

Line 226 of class.Template.inc:
226 header('Content-type: text/html; charset='.$_SESSION['translator']->out('CHARACTER_ENCODING'));

The error probably arises from repeat prints of html headers. I will try to comment out the html header in class.Template.inc to see if that helps.

Btw, noticed "cannot attach pic" a bug report too.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Dave Hutton]

Strange about the email getting bounced. Will look into that. Otherwise it worked. Just the same problem as the rest about header errors.

Dave

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Commenting out the header print in class.Template.inc appears to fix the "Cannot modify header" issue.

What remains is this error which shows as very fine print:
Bad $rs in GetUpdateSQL. Connection or SQL invalid. Try using $connection->debug=true;

I will leave this error to another day since the main eyesore "Cannot modify header" has been removed. 3 am and I am going to hit the sack.

Let me know of any other issues. Thanks.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi Steven,

It sure has been a while. Nice to see you back!
I managed to register and i am waiting for the e-mail to arrive, but since you were the only one logged in and your going to get some shuteye. I will be patient.
See you on the I(T)RC.

Gideon

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Back to the issue of "Bad $rs", logins will fail with this message if the username already has a previous session in one of the chatrooms.

Before a solution can be identified, the workaround would be to try any of the other 2 chatrooms where the username does not have a session in. Once logged in, the older session will be kicked off.

The other occurrence of "Bad $rs" is with the send message frame. However, that is a minor irritance and does not hinder the chat.

Had quite a while of online chat with Protter last night.

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Alexander M. Ermes]

Hi Steven.
Thanks for all the work you put into this.
Hope i can give it a try tonight from home.
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

[Radim Jarosek]

Hi,

maybe you know the following error message.

"Bad $rs in GetUpdateSQL. Connection or SQL invalid. Try using $connection->debug=true; "

I registered ( nick = raja ) and actived account with click on the link. However, I couldn't get in, because user raja was already in. Could you check it, if there is another user with nickname raja?

If there isn't another nick raja, I suppose it is bug, because I should logout or when I close IE, the session should interrupted.

Nevertheless, you did a lot of work! I look forward to chat ... :)

Radim

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

Gave it a try, but got this message:
Bad $rs in GetUpdateSQL. Connection or SQL invalid. Try using $connection->debug=true;


Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/openchat/include/adodb/adodb-lib.inc.php:224) in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/openchat/index.php on line 292

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/openchat/include/adodb/adodb-lib.inc.php:224) in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/openchat/index.php on line 293

I only registered, clicked the link in the mail and then tried to login...
I am now in the online list, but what I found strange: I'm also a channel now ;-/

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

And I could logon to that channel... Logout and then try to logon to the ITRC channel still fails.

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

I also got a own chatroom after register - nice!

But Elmar:
Steven solution works: login in one of the other chatrooms (except your own).
After logout all should work.

I'll try loging in now

Volkmar

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

It didn't work for me. But when I login to my own channel I could succesfully switch to the ITRC channel.

[Fabio Ettore]

Hi,

very good! Now I am registered...

Have a nice day!
Ettore

[Radim Jarosek]

Hi Steven,

I'm sucessfuly in !

But it is a really slow. And now I got this:
"
The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Cannot have a DOCTYPE declaration outside of a prolog. Error processing resource 'https://www.beepz.com/openchat/input.php'. Line 2, Position 11



----------^
"
I tried it several times.

Have anyone the same problem like me?

Radim

p.s. WinXP + IE 6