Do you use CometChat and would like to allow your members to have an easier way to access chat if you have a lot of members it can be hard sometimes to locate the member you wish to message, with a small modification you can add a Chat with Me button to each profile so when the user is online you can just click the button to start chatting.

• Open the file: ./application/modules/User/widgets/profile-status/index.tpl
• Find this code:

<div id='profile_status'>

  <h2>
  
    <?php echo $this->subject()->getTitle() ?>

  </h2>

• and replace with this code:

<?php 

$user_online_options = include('application/settings/database.php');
mysql_connect($user_online_options['params']['host'],$user_online_options['params']['username'],$user_online_options['params']['password']);
mysql_select_db($user_online_options['params']['dbname']);
$user_online_query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM engine4_user_online WHERE user_id=" . $this->subject()->user_id);
$user_is_online = mysql_num_rows($user_online_query);

?>

<div id='profile_status'>
  <h2>  
    <?php echo $this->subject()->getTitle() ?>    
    <a href="javascript: void(0);" onclick="javascript:parent.jqcc.cometchat.chatWith('<?php echo $this->subject()->user_id;  ?>')">   
        <?php if($user_is_online) echo '<img src="application/modules/User/externals/images/online.gif" alt="Online" />';
    else echo '<img src="application/modules/User/externals/images/offline.gif" alt="Offline" />';
    ?>   
    </a>
    <br>
  </h2>

• now save and upload to your server, always make a backup of the original file in-case you ever need to revert.

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