anyone?

HI ZT

is there away to make this viewable whilst browsing the forums?

Excusez moi, RaZor Edge.
There was no need for me to react like that.

where are the option int he Cpanel ?

and cant he storage to be set to more then 20 lines ?
what about visible on every page while browsing forums ?

but nice feature
works with latest vb 3.5.3

Go to you're AdminCP and open Vbulletin Options -> Vbulletin Options.
In the Settingslist scroll down and there you'll find the vBShout options.

Storage is indefinite, look in the vBShout Archive.
The number of lines in the box and the height of the box can all be set in the settings.

alright thanks alot
somehow i looked over all of that

I'm using OSX and checked Safari. It's working when I'm logged in and only balloons as an unregistered for me. Maybe this can help narrow in on the problem. If I can figure it out, I'll post what I did.

I also checked it on Internet Explorer for Mac OSX. Per usual (with that ancient browser) it wouldn't even load and knocked the page out to kingdom come. That browser is awful with everything.

All does look and works great with this hack and Firefox :up: (my main of course)

Interesting x2 here, because that's who I'm using and have vbshout installed too.

It appears someone ratted out my site to RWH. I imagine I'll be switching hosts soon.

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I wonder what "bad code" could be in there?
'xept for a DB query every 10 seconds....

I walked through the whole script (for tweaking it to my needs and adding the online list) but didn't find any server-killing code....
Well, not that I looked for it and it doesn't kill my server....

Very weird this is....

*Thinks he'll be contacting this host about these claims*

Hello,

I have a problem with the AJAX funcitionality of this extension. When I click to "shout", I must reload the page to see my message on the shoutbox. That's a bug - but it only see when you use the Safari 2.0. With Firefox 1.5 it works great - but I will Safari 2.0 use to surf :(

Who can help my?

Best reguards
d4d4

Ok, I've tried doing a search, and searching this thread and with no luck and after sifting (over a two-day period) nearly 1200 posts and going through nearly 80 pages, I've not seen the problem I face (unless I overlooked it). Before I could live with it, but now its more of an annoyance.

Does anyone know how to correct the issue with special characters? { <, >, ", etc.}
When someone shouts with a special character, it displays the &gt; or &lt; or whatever the html equivelant is. Given enough time I may find a solution, but I wanted to know if someone has already encountered this and their solution? Thanks!

Strange, I don't have that problem at all....
When I type > in my Shoutbox it shows > and not &gt.

Hi peeps

How can i make this viewable when browsing the forums please?

I don't exactly know what you mean?
You could just open a seperate window / tab for your homepage with shoutbox and browse the forums in a other window / tab ;)

The shoutbox is shown by putting the variable $shoutbox in a template.
I don't know if it works on other page to, though.

having another browser open is defeating the object slightly, it would work for me as i have a dual moniotr setup but my other staff dont have such luxuries.... therefore having another browser open they would still have to keep checking it, same as they do now, but if it was shown all the time throught the forum then it would be noticed and be easily read and used,

I will try the variable though, thanks

just tried the $shoutbox and it is not found on any of my templates anywhere...

The only places where the word shoutbox is, is in its own templates :(

Dead end there im afraid

Nope it's not :)
It's true that no template is edited by the hack.
However, in the code there is a replacement for a certain textphrase in the forumhome-template and $shoutbox is put underneath. What textphrase is used, depends on where you position the shoutbox in your admincp.
It's mentioned somewhere in this thread how it works exactly a couple of pages back, try searching this thread ;)

When you manualy put $shoutbox in a template, than it will appear where you put this variable. Just try it :)

I did try that, i put it in forumhome i think it was but nothing changed!

Did you upload vbshout.php to your forum root directory?

dont get me wrong, the shoutbox works fin on the forum index (staff only)
So yes i did upload the vbshout.php to my forum root directory...

I just wanted it to show whilst browsing the forum is all would be great if its possible.

OK, sorry.
Than I'm affraid I don't really know what you mean with "whilst browsing the forum" ;)
I don't think I can help you, sorry.

In other words you want to see the shoutbox on every page? Easy... there's a hack for that. Scroll up, it's listed to the side of the top post on every page of this thread :)

This may be weird, but when i go to view "currently active users" instead of it saying viewing forums index it says viewing shoutbox.

Is that normal and is there anyway to change it back without uninstall the shoutbox? I know it's minor but the minor things sometimes bug me.

I believe it says "Viewing Shoutbox" when the user is viewing the Shoutbox Archive.
That phrase is completely valid ;)

If you really want to change it, than I guess you can change the phrase in the product XML and reinstall (with overwrite).

Bashy, mayby THIS is what you need?

This command doesn't seem to work on mine.


*EDIT- got it working had to remove the brackets around the username.*

Cheers m8 but i tried that hack and its bugged to hell and back lol
Nearly broke me forum :(

I've found the problem. This issue derives from the "security fix" listed in this thread where I changed:

'shout' => TYPE_STR,

to

'shout' => TYPE_NOHTML,

If I change it back, I get the special characters, if I keep it, I have to deal with the &gt;, &lt;, etc.

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Can you please tell me how or what I can edit to make the edit/delete shouts only allowed for Admins if thats possible, thanks!

we use it on our forum and it works great for us

My shoutbox is refreshing and jumping all over the place! When members are typing in the text line, it'll refresh and blink out and they lose what they're typing and have to start all over again. This is happening several times per minute.
It's extremely frustrating... has anyone else had this problem and what did you do to fix it?

any chance we can get flood protection for this?

I'm concerned if this script will stay constantly connected to the database and taxing server resources. Any one have know if this is the case?

Ok I posted about this somewhere else and was told it was addressed in THIS thread, but I can't seem to find it so.... here goes again, I guess...

I'm admin on my forum and I have my options set to be able to view members, exact location on the forum, ip addresses etc. However.. ONLY the past 2 days, when I click on the currently active users link and view who's online... it shows every single member viewing the shoutbox. Even me, and I'm not! No matter how many times I reload the page, it doesn't change.

Is this a glitch somewhere? ANyone know what I might be able to do?
thanks for your help

Go to your ACP, then:
Plugin System -> Manage Products -> [Add/Import Product]
Select 'vbshout.xml' from your computer and then press 'Import'

i would redo this first and set Allow Overwrite to yes then click import,just a thought

Ok I did that... and now it shows me viewing who's online... but everyone else is viewing the shoutbox even tho I took the "sb on every page" hack off and I know the others are posting their little hearts out. *sigh*

I hope I don't have to uninstall this hack...

Is there a way to force the defualt size of the font to something smaller? I like the idea, but the defualt text takes too much room on the interface for my liking..