Server, Game, Clan Chats

Post by **The Beatles** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:31 pm

Hello folks,

The FAF chat is back! This means that now you can chat either on the game-wide chat, the server-specific chat for BFR/WOA/Duels/etc. or even in your own private clan chat, which is automatically set up for each clan.

The chat needs nothing beyond a modern browser on any OS and is realtime in both directions, so you should experience it to be light and fast.

Some users have reported seeing a 'hacking attempt' warning when trying to log in. Don't worry, just reload the page and you should be fine.

Happy chatting/planning,
~Beatles

Nuclear Raunch · Post by **Nuclear Raunch** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:37 pm

Dude that rocks. I like the concept.

Post by **The Beatles** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:45 am

We used to have them a long time ago, but then the host banned socket servers, so we had to move them over to another server. It's only now that I've found a stable place to host them at.

Post by **Gen. Volkov** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:51 am

Cool. I remember those, they were fun.

Post by **Freenhult** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:02 am

Can a link from the forum to the FaF chat be made? That way non-players can use use it too.

Post by **The Beatles** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:16 am

Hum, adding a 'guest' authentication category? Makes sense. To get a name, of course, you'd have to be logged in.

Nuclear Raunch · Post by **Nuclear Raunch** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:20 am

We tested the (Profanity is a sign of Maturity) out of that (Profanity is a sign of Maturity) piece of (Profanity is a sign of Maturity) word (Profanity is a sign of Maturity) filter and it works just (Profanity is a sign of Maturity) great.

Whoops, this one failed on one.

Post by **Freenhult** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:29 am

The chat died...while we were using it.

Post by **The Beatles** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:38 am

The profanity filter on the chat was written by me, so it works better than the Invision one.

Post by **The Beatles** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:38 am

I may have restarted it. Did you try reloading?

Ah...

PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 38 bytes) in /home/jbarbero/faf/TagParser.php on line 205 Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 32 bytes)

Well, I'll restart it and see what I can do. Anyone messing with inordinate amounts of BBCode? We didn't used to have this problem, and the daemon often ran for weeks.

Post by **windhound** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:20 pm

a few smiles here and there
freen tried

and it didnt work

there was some rather heavy testing of the word filter

mostly just text, and there were only four of us in there.. I was using the WOA admin account, as I dont currently have one of my own

I'm guessing the chat should clear its cache after a while? you 'only' gave it 8 megs, but for a mostly text chat..

Post by **The Beatles** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:29 pm

No, PHP gave it 8 megs by default. But I know what the problem is. The bbcode_parse() function used to create a new tag parser object at each invocation. This was sensible for things like messages.php and such, as they're invoked only once for a short time. But for a longer-running piece of code, it creates a new tag parser for every single message! So naturally it hit the limit (previously, in PHP4 there probably wasn't a limit, but this is PHP5). So I changed that and it should work now.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:48 pm

i tried it and no one would chat with me

Arthus · Post by **Arthus** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:44 am

Can you blame them?

Anybody up for a pirate joke? :*laughs*:

Nuclear Raunch · Post by **Nuclear Raunch** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:49 am

Hahaha he nailed that one dead on! Nice one.

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