Integrating FlashChat with vBulletin v. 3.0x

Using your web browser, open the vBulletin Admin panel (it is located in admincp subdir of vBulletin system). Go to "Styles & Templates" -> "Style Manager" -> "Templates Options" -> "Edit Templates".

Style Manager

Template Options / Edit Templates

Then, open "Navigation / Breadcrumb Templates", click "navbar" template and then the "Edit" button at the right. If the Edit button is disabled, click on the Customize button instead.

At this point, you should be able to edit some HTML code directly from within your web browser. Locate this text:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="login.php?$session[sessionurl]do=logout"
onclick="return log_out()">$vbphrase[log_out]</a></td> 

...and add the following IMMEDIATELY above it. If you uploaded FlashChat to a server directory other than "chat", then you may ned to adjust the href=".." path.

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="chat/flashchat.php"
target="flashchat">FlashChat</a></td> 

Be very careful that you paste this text correctly, since this is a very easy place to introduce HTML syntax errors, which could prevent the FlashChat link from being correctly displayed.

Finally, press "Save" button.

Now, return to your vBulletin site. If you are logged in, you should see a new link called "FlashChat" in the main navigation bar. This should link to the "flashchat.php" file of FlashChat. When FlashChat loads, you should be automatically logged into the chatroom using your vBulletin username. If you are an administrator of vBulletin, then you will be logged into FlashChat as a moderator, which means that you can ban and boot other users.