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Question about Cometchat and PHP7

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Hi Perrie!
I would have no idea what you mean by 'the old version" or the "new version"...there are a whole bunch of versions.
I bought the Premium version of CC back in maybe May 2015...before they made a JR module of their Basic version available. Mine was not cheap...but it came with a 1 year of upgrades and support, and I made sure to update it just before my 1 year was up and I no longer had free upgrades and tech support.

So for the past 6 months or so I've been using version 5.7.0 premium. I'm still on Jamroom 5, but the JR Team upgraded my server to php7 and CC is still working fine so far. I currently have no compelling reason to pay more $ to update my CChat unless something stops working. Which I imagine it will when it gets old and incompatible with stuff.

but- Now that you've brought this subject up, I'm wondering whether my CChat will continue to function ok when i upgrade from JR5 to JR6....I was thinking of doing that next week in fact.
Now I wonder if suddenly my CC will stop working when i switch to JR6....anyone know?

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Yeah those JR profile and user .csv files are kind of mind blowing.

No Gallery tab/button on profile

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ArloManiac....there's also this:
http://yoursite.com/profile/quota_compare

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Don't worry about the pen/tablet thing...I'm betting ZERO of my members use tablets instead of mice.
I'll just eat toast with my left hand if I'm going to chat.
Airport?? Looks like you're in the south of France, or getting ready to press grapes. Or olives. Meanwhile.... -12C/10F and falling...

Actually, as I wrote above, I can't seem to get my (.gif) smileys to appear in the jrChat on my pennywhistle site even when I type the code, or any variation of their codes. I CAN get one of the default jr smileys (.png) to show up though. But not the OTHER default jr smiley. Can't figure that one out. Does it not recognize my animated gif smileys? (Cometchat does fine with showing a smiley selection- though not mine, their own..but hundreds of them- see attached screenshot).

I have only the Cometchat on my dulcimer (fotmd.com) site. And I have only the jrChat activated on my (non-live test) pennywhistle site. The logins for both as Admin are the same, BTW...feel free to look at them or test.

"If there was a button to allow smiley selection panel to open, you'd be happier right? "
-well yeah sure, then I'd definitely use it on my new site -if I could use all my site custom smilies from the jrSmiley Module. I've already imported all my custom smilies over from my main site to my test site. I do plan to go live with that site eventually.

And on my main site (FOTMD) once the Cometchat got old to the point where I'd need to pay to update it again ( paid for their Pro version over a year ago), then I'd likely switch to jrchat if it had all my smileys...and 'if' I did a trial and the members were ok with the switch.

I like Cometchat- lots of bells and whistles. And I'm not hell bent on making you guys change jrChat. But definitely it's a bit of a hassle when I have to communicate with Cometchat's tech support in India, nice as they are. I don't mind paying for it either that much, but yes it's always nicer to get something free (as I would with the jrChat because of my hosting plan). Don't feel like you need to fuss with it just for me.

Yeah, nobody's ever likely going to be remembering any smiley codes other than and

p.s. just noticed right now I'm eating seasoned croutons with my right hand and using my pen with my left.... d'OH!

updated by @strumelia: 12/16/16 09:15:48PM

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Thanks Michael. I mentioned the pen/tablet thing simply because sometimes these things can provide a clue that helps fix related issues. I don't think it's really an important issue to persue because I don't expect many folks will be using a pen while chatting other than me...I'm kinda weird cause I use a pen/tablet in my left hand to draw for a living on my computer and my mouse in my right hand for 'normal' computer stuff...but when eating toast online I might use either one, depending on which hand is holding the toast...and I sometimes switch. Every once in a while my left pen and my right mouse get into a power battle before I realize what's going on -when my cursor acts whacky. lolol

Because of the smiley thing alone, I'll have to stick with CometChat on my main dulcimer site- or my members would come at me with torches and pitchforks. But i'll likely use the (free) jrChat on my new pennywhistle site since it's a new site and any members who join won't 'expect' 100 smileys in their chat.
Thanks!

Hey i luuuuuv your new profile pic Michael. Looks so nice in the dappled sun there... it's currently -3F here (-19.4C) and windy, with frozen snow everywhere...looks like my profile pic here right now. yikes!

Lost images during domain name change tool

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I certainly believe you Brian- some other factor or variable must have caused this then. If it's not something that happens normally and won't effect others, and since the images were easy for me to put back myself on my small test site...I'll just go ahead move forward with working on my new site's details. Thanks for your input!

Lost images during domain name change tool

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Not sure if this is a bug or just something that could be improved- but thought I'd mention it-

When using the 'change domain name' tool on my JR server, everything worked fine (I had registered my new domain and adjusted its DNS server 'Linode' names over a week ago.)
But once the dust had settled (which didn't take long at all) I noticed that all my member profile and user images had reverted back to the default image. Also all my Group avatar-images. Luckily it is a small test site and I only had a handful of members and about 30 groups. It was easy for me to reload those images, but I'm imagining a site with hundreds or thousands of members, and a hundred or more groups...could be a big problem for big sites. It's a good reminder to create a safe folder of the Group images you've used if you as Admin are the person always creating Groups...and copies of certain avatars you want to keep safe if you have to add them in again afterwards.

Other than that, it was a smooth process. I just had to remember to change a few links i had placed myself here and there, and a couple of header links.
Also I had to manually update the site's Profile Forum url (/forum) in my skin, and my 'system name' in the Core.
updated by @strumelia: 03/15/17 11:33:33AM

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I just noticed something-
If I'm using my Wacom tablet pen at my desktop to delete a chat post as admin, it doesn't work on Chrome but it does on FF. But if I use my regular mouse in Chrome, it deletes the post. Go figure.

JR5 to JR6 Ningja Latest activity "array" issue

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Yes, understood. Thanks!

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I had some sporatic working of the 'delete post' ...but seems to be working in general for me (both FF and Chrome). Same thing for notifications- on both browsers woudl work and then not work for a while.

Here's one smiley chat question:
Seems on my pennywhistle site, when I type in the text code for JR default smiles (which are .png images)...it work in the chat. But when I type in the text code for any of my added Smiley Module custom smileys (which are almost all .gif images) it does not work. Brian, do you have .gif's allowed for the chat smiley synching function?...or does it only work for .png's (like the JR default smileys)?