Both are excellent Chat Boxes, by very good coders. My suggestion to you would be to go over the feature list and compare them, and choose what seems most suitable for your needs. IMO, Dreams is a very lightweight solution with little overhead, very easy on the server resources. MGC's has more options and configurations. I had this mod installed on my board a couple months ago, and it was very good, but I was missing some of the options I really wanted, and that is when I switched over to MGC's. But, really, it's all up to your needs/wants/resources..

Im sorry im having trouble finding the navbar template on my server. Where is it located?

Got it! Once I get it to refresh quickly I will be up and running with over 8000 members! Thanks!!

Ok!!!

Working well on my forums!

http://www.ricekiller.com/forums/

Here is ONE problem! It does not auto refresh when you open the chat box separately! When you use the integrated box, it refreshes fine (every 5 seconds) but when you click the link to open the box, users complain that it does not auto refresh.

Any advice?

Hello, it should be working normally... If this is still not working, please enable the chatbox for guests to view it so I can check it out.

As da420 pointed out, this (mine) chatbox is the more simple of the two. It just boils down if you need a bunch of a lot of features, or just a chatbox that works.

I'd like to point out too that my chatbox is a lot more easier to maintain for the coder, and is bound to give less errors and be easier to update on new versions of vBulletin.

MCG chatbox is great, but I wouldn't use it because my users wouldn't need all those features. It really boils down to what you would need on your website. Other than that I can't really say because I haven't used MGC's. Also what I know is that mine is easy to install/uninstall.

I'd suggest you install both in a test forum and go with the one you like best.

Reset to work for guests (so you can check out your work if you like) also got it working a bit smoother.

Only thing I would like would be a way for it to auto delete older messages. (Either over x amount of hours or after x amount of messages)

Great work thanks for any help. :) :up:

You can use the script inside the cron directory with vBcron to do that, the instructions are in the txt file in the directory.

Ok I'll take a look at it now.

edit: is it still not refreshing in its own window?

Thanks for quick response. :)

Yah it is refreshing everything fine now from what I can tell, I also setup the auto prune script to run once a day. Hopefully that will be fine in regards to lag/page load times. (If not I will just set it up to prune more often)

Great mod! Keep up the good work.

:up:

hi just two questions:

how many queries it have?
is it server intensive? I am planning to change on your chatbox if it is not. this is my last and final choice i have.

Hi, if you keep your refresh rate high (like 5 minutes) this mod is light on the server. I don't have the exact number of queries to tell you.

How can we add the shoutbox in all pages instead only in the forumhome?

Put the chatbox in your navbar template, the edit in "chatbox below navbar.txt"

please mark as installed if you use this

(you were lucky I replied so fast I just got here)

Big thank you!! :) Installed!

btw, great mod! (unfortunely it cant have morechatrooms) but anyway.. 5***** stars!

I havent yet installed it. I see 4 zip files which one is which? Which should I use? Please help whats the diff between 1.3 and 1.9, which one can be used as a side module on VBAdvanced?

chatbox 1.9.zip is the one you should use

Thanks, I figured it out, works great on my test forum. Will install soon on the real one. GREAT Mod.

Some days back someone hacked into my forum using vbshout.php ... i hope this would be a bit securer...

http://thetechlife.org/index.php

shoutbox installed fine however the change colors and size link dosn't show up. boxes i mean.:(

Did you check in the vbulletin options to see if they might be turned off? I think they are turned off by default may be.

Hi again... i have one issue.. is there any issue with IE? when i access some site with this chatbox with IE is freezes.. when i access with mozilla it runs smooth..

I don't see anything there, did you remove it?
Not that I know of...

Problem fixed.. was the vbulletin_global.js issue... found the fix in vbulletin.com :)

This Chatbox rules! :)

Does this go to the lower part of the forum home like in the screen shot by default?

Yes, to use it on top of the forums use the included instructions "chatbox below navbar.txt".

dream, which one shall i download english?

nvm got it. :)

I believe this is one the chatbox that is so light in the server... hmmmm. I will stick to this one. ;)

Is there any way we could stop the URLs from being posted in the chat box?

Also sensor system?

after using this... server load is so light. make sure not to set it less than a minute.

Can you tell me, where I have to edit or put in my usergroups, to disallow them to see the Chatbox on forums? Because if I edit on chatbox.php I get an error message

Best regards
BioWaffen

You can into admincp - then vbulletin options - chatbox options:

See "cant view chatbox" then enter the usergroup IDs that will not be able to see the chatbox.

that's all.

Ah okay thank you, I just thought there is only Chatbox, didn´t look into options^^

Hello... this is driving me crazy... now it is giving me and to others users this:
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/4...oxerrornw1.png

hope you can help me! Thanks!

Try deleting the [ code ] tag posted by Bolt in your chatbox, it's one of his messages

Anyone else notice that the "Unsubcribe from thread" option in not available to users (for threads to which they are subscribed) after installing Chatbox?

Here on vb.org or on your forums?

On my forums.

Also, during my attempt to isolate the problem I disabled the product (chatbox) but for some reason the chatbox still worked. Any idea why?

Thanks.

Disabling the product does nothing in the chatbox case.

But I don't think it's the chatbox that is keeping your members from unsubscribing threads, as the mod doesn't do anything with other parts of the forum that are not chatbox.php only. I'm pretty sure you have some other problem that has nothing to do with the chatbox.

Is it possible to disable the chatbox or is the only way to disable it to uninstall it.

Only way is to uninstall it. You will lose your conversation though.

It is uninstalled via the admincp, right?

Also, will, adding to config.php affect the Chatbox?