Some kids were playing with the shoutbox on my forum. One of them gave one of those message boxes that never go away no matter how many times you press "ok." Another one redirected the whole site to lemonparty.org via. javascript. A final person was able to modify the entire main page to the contents of lemonparty.org. This is very insulting, and although I've pruned those users, and banned them from the forum/shoutbox, It would be nice to prevent something like that from happening again....

I am not sure if it is just me, but unless I disable the shoutbox, I get the error below appear at the top of users profile pages etc...

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /includes/functions.php(1067) : eval()'d code on line 5

Appears to be related to the 'vbshout on all pages' mod.

You need to find your vbshout.php file that you uploaded during installation. Once you do, find this line:

The next line should be changed to:

Currently, 'shout' is set to something other than TYPE_NOHTML. I don't remember what, exactly, cuz its been awhile since I changed it :ermm:

can't view the smilies in the posts. i can see the smilie box, and if i click the smilie, the text format appears in the text box but after clicking, "Shout" the text itself is posted and not the actual smiley. anyone knows how to solve this?

i like it

my shout box has been freezing alot. are there any updates for this?

I thought it was just me...mine also freezes, with IE and FF
Although not as bad with FF

Hello,

Is there anyway I can enable censorship for the vBShout mod?

Thanks,
Justin.

well - thanks for the info RaZor ... while Ive had VBshout working on our site for some time, and our host has never complained - we have had problems of our bandwidth usage shooting through the roof !

Ive tried things like pruning the shoutbox offen (ie - not letting it get over a certain number), limiting viewing to a few usergroups, disableing it in my forum views and only showing it on my homepage, turning off any fancy smilies, fonts, etc... and even trying to reduce the size of the vbshout.php file... Ive taken to looking for a 'simpler' shoutbox thats not so server killing.

Im not saying I dont love this shoutbox - Its perfect for my needs!

Im not trying to figure out just what is causing the heavy bandwidth usage - if it JUST the sites constant re-loading /clients reloading of vbshout.php ? or does disabling smilies really make a difference ?