ok this didn't happen when I first installed the SB, but for the past few days, the box clicks and jumps when it refreshes. Sometimes if you're typing something in the message line for the SB, it disappears and you have to start over.

any ideas why and what to do???

@ Ohio: I noticed when I put the full url in the templates it started doing that. If you've modified the url's to vbshout.php in the templates, you might want to change them to an internal reference. i.e. /forum/vbshout.php vs http://www.myforum.com/forum/vbshout.php. Hope that helps.

@thepimp

can u show me the code please?

say what?

I haven't edited any urls. I just followed the instructions that came with it. The shoutbox is on my forum at http://exquisitelyerotic.net/forums
Like I said it didn't do this when I installed it a week ago, only the past day or two

2 questions:

1) what are the templates changes? I guess only forumhome right?
2) does this hack use lot of bandwidth?

I have a question about this:

I would like this ban check to also check secondary groups. Is that possible? How would the code need to be changed?

Thanks
:nervous:

Is it possible someone could make a add-on to give rooms for certain usergroups? Like mods having their own room and you can switch between public and mod channel?

It's not a chat, it's a shoutbox, Replicators ;)

I would like to have the archive be pruned so that only shouts from the last 24 hours are saved. Running a cron every hour or so. Cause it's gonna be a huge table if the box is intensively used.
But it would be nice if the shoutstatisics are saved (total shouts, shouts per member etc)

I still can't figure out why the shoutbox is jumping everytime it refreshes. I thought it was supposed to refresh smoothly??

I agree, phpMyAdmin shows nearly 1000 in the past week. I suppose I could empty the table every week or so or manually delete entries over a few days old. But what a hassle.

Bob

Does anyone know if it is possible to put this somewhere other than on forumhome ?

I have Amykhars personal pages hack installed and I would like to use this to replace the non ajax shoutbox/guestbook used on the members pages.

PLEASE.... someone please tell me what to do to make this thing stop JUMPING on my forum or I'm going to have to remove it. :(

If I need to uninstall and reinstall, perhaps.... how do I uninstall this hack?

Duude! Niiice! No tempelate edits! Im not usually the one who clicks on install, but ill click for this! :p

Which code would you like to see?

If I wanted to put a BOX ad next to (same row as) the shoutbox making the shoutbox less wide but side by side with the add how would I do that? What template would I edit and what would I ave to edit to do it?

Thanks in advance

Is there a fix for this? My safari users are having the same problem. Searched around and didn't see anything.

Anyone figure out how to do this easily?

blah installed it but it says "Loading......" and it stays like that forever...

I sure wish someone would update this so it takes fewer SQL connections and is more efficient. Even a spin off of this would be good.

any ideas as to why the shoutbox will show up in some of the styles I have installed and not others?

The posistioning of the shoutbox is done by searching for textstrings in the Forumhome template and adding the $shoutbox variable to them.

For example: If you set the box to be under the "What's going on" box, the script will look for the sting "<!-- end what\'s going on box -->" and put the shoutbox under it.
If you've edited your templates in one or more styles and removed that line, the shoutbox will not appear.

ahhh ok.. I didn't edit the new styles at all... I added a new style last week and the shoutbox was just there... I didn't do anything at all. With this set.. it wasn't and I panicked. lol... thank you, I'll go look!

S@NL.... below is the FORUMHOME template code for one of the styles that the shoutbox DOES show up in... and i can't find a shoutbox string in there anywhere. Yet the shoutbox does show up in this style, and my SB is set under the Nav bar


$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
<!-- no cache headers -->
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />
<!-- end no cache headers -->
$headinclude
<title><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_powered_by_vbulletin]</phrase></title>
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar
<!-- main -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>
<tr align="center">
<td class="thead">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="thead" width="100%" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
<td class="thead" width="175">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
</if>
</tr>
</thead>
$forumbits
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="tfoot" align="center" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>"><div class="smallfont"><strong>
<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]do=markread" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[mark_forums_read]</a>
<if condition="$vboptions['forumleaders']">&nbsp; &nbsp;
<a href="showgroups.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[view_forum_leaders]</a></if>
</strong></div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<!-- /main -->
<br />
<br />
<!-- what's going on box -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="2">$vbphrase[whats_going_on]</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<if condition="$show['loggedinusers']">
<!-- logged-in users -->
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_activeusers')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_activeusers" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_activeusers].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<a href="online.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[currently_active_users]</a>: $totalonline (<phrase 1="$numberregistered" 2="$numberguest">$vbphrase[x_members_and_y_guests]</phrase>)
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_activeusers" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_activeusers]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><a href="online.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/whos_online.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_whos_online]" border="0" /></a></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%">
<div class="smallfont">
<div style="white-space: nowrap"><phrase 1="$recordusers" 2="$recorddate" 3="$recordtime">$vbphrase[most_users_ever_online_was_x_y_at_z]</phrase></div>
<div>$activeusers</div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<!-- end logged-in users -->
</if>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_stats')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_stats" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_stats].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_statistics]</phrase>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_stats" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_stats]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/stats.gif" alt="<phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_statistics]</phrase>" border="0" /></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%">
<div class="smallfont">
<div>
$vbphrase[threads]: $totalthreads,
$vbphrase[posts]: $totalposts,
$vbphrase[members]: $numbermembers<if condition="$show['activemembers']">,
<span title="<phrase 1="$vboptions[activememberdays]">$vbphrase[within_the_last_x_days]</phrase>">$vbphrase[active_members]: $activemembers</span>
</if>
</div>
<div><phrase 1="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$newuserid" 2="$newusername">$vbphrase[welcome_to_our_newest_member_x]</phrase></div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<if condition="$show['birthdays']">
<!-- today's birthdays -->
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_birthdays')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_birthdays" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_birthdays].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
$vbphrase[todays_birthdays]
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_birthdays" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_birthdays]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><a href="calendar.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getday&amp;day=$today&amp;sb=1"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/birthday.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_birthdays]" border="0" /></a></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%"><div class="smallfont">$birthdays</div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<!-- end today's birthdays -->
</if>
<if condition="$show['upcomingevents']">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_events')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_events" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_events].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<if condition="$show['todaysevents']">$vbphrase[todays_events]<else /><phrase 1="$vboptions[showevents]">$vbphrase[upcoming_events_for_the_next_x_days]</phrase></if>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_events" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_events]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/calendar.gif" alt="$vbphrase[calendar]" border="0" /></a></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%"><div class="smallfont">$upcomingevents</div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</if>
</table>
<br />
<!-- end what's going on box -->
<!-- icons and login code -->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" border="0" width="100%">
<tr valign="bottom">
<td>
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td align="center"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_new.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_new_posts]" border="0" /></td>
<td class="smallfont">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_contains_new_posts]</td>
<td align="center"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_no_new_posts]" border="0" /></td>
<td class="smallfont">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_contains_no_new_posts]</td>
<td align="center"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old_lock.gif" alt="$vbphrase[a_closed_forum]" border="0" /></td>
<td class="smallfont">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_is_closed_for_posting]</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<if condition="!$show['guest']">
<!-- member logout button -->
<td align="$stylevar[right]">
<a href="login.php?$session[sessionurl]do=logout&amp;logouthash=$bbuserinfo[logouthash]" onclick="return log_out()"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/logout.gif"
border="0" width="92" height="25" alt="<phrase 1="$bbuserinfo[username]">$vbphrase[log_out_x]</phrase>"></a></td>
<!-- end member logout -->
</if>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- / icons and login code -->
$footer
</body>
</html>


any ideas now? lol

HI ZT

Is there away to get this to show whilst browsing the whole of the forum, I am using this just for my staff and they want it to show all over :)

Please??

when i tried this, mine diappeared, any ideas anyone?

Ohiosweetheart, you won't find the $shoutbox in your forumhome template.
It is added by the plugin, everytime you open the forumhome page.

If you look at the code of the plugin "vBShout [Template Alteration]" in your admincp you will see what textstrings are used to position the box.

Bashy, I think the shoutbox will appear wherever you put $shoutbox in your templates.

This is all i need to add is this where i want ???

awesome! i love it
thanks

one thing, so i know in the future.
how can i "Clear the shoutbox ARCHIVE completely" ?

does the /prune kill the archive also?

Yep, that's how I understand it.
Haven't tried it for myself though. I'm ok with the box on forumhome only ;)

anyone please?

- /prune (Clears the shoutbox completely)

The archive is not a different databasetable, so I think all shouts will get deleted ;)

When you tried what?

when i tried to install the shoutbox that stays on all pages,

sorry, i thought i wrote that

Ah, ok.
Sorry, can't help you there. I didn't, nor do I want to, try that ;)

ok well ill just do the regular one. and it just says loading in the box.

any ideas?

okay works good now. i had uploaded the PHP file to the wrong location.

I am curious, will this affect bandwidth much?

from what i have read in the thread, yes it will increase the server load. idk about bandwidth. i will use it on fridays only. so i will have the plug-in disabled all week. :)

woo hoo i finally got it!

::installed::

Is there anyway i can allow GUESTS to post in the shoutbox? Thanks in advance.