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 ?

I'm getting this DB error. How to solve this?

A couple requests:

1) Allow the admin to choose the order of the shouts in Archive View (ascending or descending). It'd be much easier to read from a visitor's perspective.

2) Have the user's own shouts be highlighted in a different color, like a soft yellow, to allow easy scanning of the conversation since their last shout.

Anyone??? This happens on both of my forums, on 2 seperate servers.

This has to be a browser issue. Smilies and images work fine with IE on my forum.

The old version of this script worked fine for me also. But vbShout 2.0 doesn't for some reason. Works in Firefox, but not IE.

Can someone help me to delete Shout Archive.

i want to prune all the shouts till date

pleasee help me out

thanx

type /prune
All will be deleted!!!!!

Hi peeps

Does anyone have any ideas what i need to edit to be able to paste multiple lines into
the text box...atm if ya copy and paste multiple lines into it, it only pastes the 1st line
Any help would be appreciated :)

Hi peeps

How do i stop Moderators from deleteing shouts please.
I only want admin and Supermods to be able to do that?

Help with my 2 problems?

I think that would require some script rewriting. Seems a hardcoded permission now.

Damn...that is a mighty big shame :(

Ok m8 no worries :)

I went threw all 90+ pages the other day and found a code change so people couldnt post pictures in the shoutbox, but I lost it, anyone know where I can find it? it took hours to go threw all those pages. thanks.

Found it! incase anyone needs it. and what I replaced was Type_STR

When a user tries to edit a message, the message is not edited. Only the user can see the change he made. Any ideas?

how do you mass prune shouts?

Read the first post of this thread for the prune commands available in the shoutbox.

If you want to "autoprune" than read this post

Known error. Check this post for an answer.

TIP, try the "search this thread" function ;)

Thanks for the link :)

Hi ...

First excuse my english please ;-)

On this screen (official screenshot from the hack on side 1) you can see the edit functions : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...chmentid=32673

On the other screen (from my forum) you can see, that the edit options are not shown. Why not ? Can somebody help me ?

Greetings ... Kokus

i'm about to upload this just a question,i have a small forum,can i set prune to say every 2 hours???? so in here set like this "(TIMENOW - (60 * 60 * 2)" is this the correct way please

No, that will only delete all shouts that are older than 2 hours.

If you want to let the prunecron run every two hours, you'll have to edit the properties of the cron.

I've had this installed for quite some time now. My host has had some load
problems, but I'm not sure if it's related to this.
I've read though all 93 pages again, and see some (security/and other) fixes
which I'm going to code in today.

I have noticed some weird files. They look like cache files or something.
I think they are related to the vbshout, but not sure.
Is anybody else getting this?: (see attached)

Two questions for everyone :).

Does anyone know how to:

A: Edit the title above the shoutbox window that says "Shoutbox" to something else

B: Make the timestamp on the left smaller in size

<a href="http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=178024" target="_blank">http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=178024</a>

Try clearing out shout comments and see if that works.

Can someone help me with my problem ?

Kokus

Same here. I had to move providers to run this script and now they are saying i have to remove it!!!! Im on a shared server and its breaking their t's and c's by going over 10% of resources.

Top Process %CPU 12.6 httpd [www.********.co.uk] [/forum/vbshout.php]

Am i going to have to move onto a server or is this script going to be modified?

Has anyone had any success editing or modifing vbshout after warnings from thier host?

There should be a option to lower the refresh rate, All hacks which use AJAX should have the option to turn down refresh rate. VBpager has the option and this should too.

Is there a way of converting this mod so that it refreshes every 10 seconds instead of a stupid server load refresh at the moment?