Hide mChat for guests

[Nully]

I searched in the forum and dit not find what to do for how to not show the mchat to guests.
The permission are already to "no", but it does not seems just to hide the textarea.
I would like the guests do not see anything of the mchat.
Maybe something in overall_header?
Can somebody tell me?

[themission]

Cant you do in ACP - permissions - Group permissions - select guests from the dropdown box - then advanced permissions and click on the Mchat tab and turn off what u want ?

[Solidjeuh]

Open index_body.html

Find:

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<!-- IF S_MCHAT_ENABLE and S_MCHAT_ON_INDEX and S_MCHAT_LOCATION --><!-- INCLUDE mchat_body.html --><!-- ENDIF -->

Replace with:

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<!-- IF not S_IS_BOT and S_USER_LOGGED_IN -->
<!-- IF S_MCHAT_ENABLE and S_MCHAT_ON_INDEX and S_MCHAT_LOCATION --><!-- INCLUDE mchat_body.html --><!-- ENDIF -->
<!-- ENDIF -->

[RMcGirr83]

That code is no more different than changing the permissions for guests. There is nothing wrong with the mod if it is used correctly.

[Nully]

There is nothing wrong with the mod if it is used correctly.

I never said there is something wrong with your mod.
My english is so bad that it causes misunderstanding and I do not use correctly everything

Cant you do in ACP - permissions - Group permissions - select guests from the dropdown box - then advanced permissions and click on the Mchat tab and turn off what u want ?

I did this, it hides only the textarea.

@Solidjeuh
No, it does not work (of course I refreshed)

[jabhi]

You need to hide whole mchat to guest. Right ?
By default it is set like that. If you changed the permission, set permission of mchat to no for all option by going to ACP > Permission > Group permission > Select guests > Advanced permission > Mchat tab > Set all option to No.

[Nully]

Yes I knew and it did not work.
I thank you for having wrote again how to...I found why it did not work
I noticed that it was my fault! I made a confusion with the models of permission.
Now it is ok.
I hope RMcgirr83 will not kill me for all my stupid questions :sweat:

[Arioch]

Hi,
sorry to reopen an old topic but I am in the process of setting up and testing a
forum on my PC's local server and all is going well.
I have installed mchat and I seem to be having the same issue, when I test the forum
as a guest mchat is visible though im unable to send a message.
I have set guest permission all to 'No' to prevent guests from viewing and using.
I have set all options in mchat.php to false but still Mchat and all messages are visible to
guests.
my forum is Subsilver2 based and i have installed the latest version of mchat.
I would like to get this sorted before i upload to a server so any help i would be very grateful.

[martin123456]

Check the permissions again as some times on localhost when you click submit it dont always work even though it should.

[Sniper_E]

And like Rich has said many times. Never > No > Yes
Never over rules No
No over rules Yes
Try Never if you continue having problems. Clear your server Cache too.

[Arioch]

Thank You for your help :rock:
all guest permissions set to Never, all cache cleared and still no good.
I think that it is down to the installation as i am using a custom version
of phpBB3 v3.0.11 Subsilver2.

When i go into ACP- Mods. I get a General Error!
which gives me a list of errors.
I have manually install mchat and also tried automod but automod
just throws out all sorts of problems

it seems Mchat v1.3.5 just isnt compatible? at least when manually installed it is
usable, it just means i will have to allow guests to view it.

[martin123456]

isnt compatible ?

Mchats not compatible with VB but sure is with phpbb the mod works perfect in fact i'll have a bet on user error.

Can you post a link to your site.

[Arioch]

User Error, yes i totally agree with you there Martin,
I just can not find where i have gone wrong?
my site is not hosted yet so unable to send a link otherwise i would be very happy to.
at the moment it is running on localhost on my XP machine using Xampp.