10,000 views! WOOHOO \o/

:)

Just to say, this is really good and is much less resource-intensive than other shoutboxes.

For pruning, I created a scheduled task cron file to delete all shouts over 48 hours old, this runs every hour via the admin CP and keeps things manageable. I also disabled autorefresh to keep resources down.

The only thing I think would be useful would be a smilie popup window or dropdown, with clickable smilies.

I'd like to know the answer to this too.

thanks again - just put the updated version in

We use vbshout but as you can't have more than one shoutbox, and also because flashchat is to intensive for just admin chat I have once again put this great little chat client in place

One query that I have is whether you can restrict who can view chats - I have it so that only admins can see the CMPS module that I put this in but if you browse to the chat.php page anyone can view it - any ideas how to restrict this?

Thanks again!

Larry

Hello, how can i change order of display- eg. last shout on the bottom, first on top?
and ofcourse, form on bottom?
thanks in advice.

You would need to get someone to change the code for you solinarius.

I'll be making a major update to this mod to address most if not all of you guys concerns, but it will take me some time.

This is interesting!

awsome :) i can't wait ;)

This is what's in the Chatbox.php:

Also, do all members who have access to the chatbox see everything that has been posted? In other words, this chatbox is not for a one-on-one member to chat with?

No, is something like shoutbox, small thing to talk online about nothing :)

it said, the my 404 page cannot be found. I noticed in the install guide that is says find:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

^^ My Vbulletin didn't have this, so what should i do?

Can someone please tell me how to change the height of the chatbox?

Thanks...

You must have a custom style, you have to choose somewhere to put the Chatbox link in the style, or not use one at all. The box Chatbox goes has a link.

Find this in FORUMHOME template

<div class="smallfont" align="center"><iframe src="chatbox.php?nofocus=1" width="100%" style="border: 0px" frameborder="0"></iframe>

And replace with this

<div class="smallfont" align="center"><iframe src="chatbox.php?nofocus=1" width="100%" style="border: 0px, height: XX" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Where XX is the height you want. That should do it, *I think*. If not let me know and I'll look into it again.

Thanks for your quick reply... but I'm afraid it didnt work.

To change the height I did as you said. Changed to this:

<div class="smallfont" align="center"><iframe src="chatbox.php?nofocus=1" width="100%" style="border: 0px, height: 500px" frameborder="0"></iframe>

also tried just 500

But there is no difference..

Sorry, do

style="border: 0px; height: 500px"

use ; instead of ,

Thanks so much, that did it.
But obviously 500px is too big. :)

Thanks for a great mod

Would it be possible to repost the contents of the send message box during arefresh so that its contents is not lost when an automatic refresh occurs?

What changes were made in the Last Update: 16. Mar 2007?

Can this be installed to work in an forum other than forumhome?

I have this Chatbox in a vBadvanced CMPS side module and its working great.

When I am on the forumhome pages the pop up works fine but when I am on the CMPS portal pages I get a page not found error in the pop up window.

The link in the Navbar has the full url to chatbox.php so I don’t understand why it doesn’t work all the time. Anyone have any ideas??

Also while I’m here - anyone know how to make the pop up chatbox always stay on top when other programs are accessed?

Any help would be gratefully appreciated - thanks…

I installed this on two different vb 3.6.4, with different results:

1) On one installation I have a working Chatbox link in the Navbar but the Chatbox doesn't appear in the "What's Going On?" area. Any idea what I did wrong? By the way, I didn't do the "chatbox below navbar.txt" instructions.

2) (fixed)

Thanks.

If you want me to take a look, send me your forum link through PM rnmcd

I'm trying to get the pop up to stay on top when pages are changed etc.

I found this code by searching google.
<body onblur="self.focus();">

In chatbox.php I changed this:
echo '</head><body class="alt1">';

to this:
echo '</head><body onBlur="self.focus();" class="alt1">';

The change made the pop up stay on top but you cant change pages or open or close other programs on your desktop.

The idea of having the pop up stay on top is so that you can use other programs whilst still always having the chatbox visible. Just move it if it gets in the way of what you are doing.

Any ideas anyone??

Found a small bug today. I got this email about a db error from chatbox:
It was due to the single quote in the user's name. Here's the fix:

FIND: (was on line 47 for me)
REPLACE WITH:
This will sanitize the query a bit more before it gets run on the database.

great stuff thanks..but how can I change send and refresh buttons? and I need to know how change text color written on these buttons..thanks again

I will PM it to you.

Also,
Do a lot more server 'resources' get used if I change the refresh time to 1 second versus 300 seconds?

Yep.

It also becomes unusable (as I found out) because every time the page refreshes you lose the contents of the new/send message box and so you wont have a chance to type something and press send before it refreshes and is gone. :)

Would it be possible to only refresh the message history and have the new message box on a separate frame which isn't refreshed?

Nope sorry. Would make stuff too complex.

You can get someone to do that for you though.

I have installed vbShout 2.0 on the main page of my forum and it works fine. I'm planning to install another shoutbox in the same forum but in different page or subforum. Is this possible, having 2 shoutbox in one forum? Appreciate your feedback and guide.

VB Version : 3.6.5

Hi I just want to install chatbox in the center module of my vbadvanced home page is this possible and if so how do I do it? I tried to add a module using chatbox.php but it crashed the whole site lol... I am a total noob when it comes to this stuff.

Thanks for all your help!

Updated, added settings to AdminCP, under vBulletin Options.

When a user can't send messages, the text input and send button will appear disabled.

New option for usergroup IDs that are not allowed to view the chatbox content.

Fixed the user name apostrophe bug.

Added option to show text input field and latest messages at the bottom.

Also added option for size of the text input field.

Let me know how this works out for you.

If we are running your previous version of Chatbox, do we need to completely uninstall and then reinstall this product?

Thanks Dream.

No, just import the product file again with Allow Overwrite on and upload chatbox.php

Update works great, Thanks!

Sorry guys, had to do a quick update, fixed an issue with the new option "Text Input on Top?", the page wasn't scrolling to the bottom (javascript issue).

Also fixed the font for the Can't View Chatbox error message, should be pretty.

To update just upload chatbox.php again.

Let me know if you have issues with this version.

Like someone posted earlier, I never could get the other chat boxes to work on my forum.This one works perfect, Thanks. ;)

You are welcome NaughtyStud :)

Yes you can have vBShout and Chatbox running separately on the same forum.

The vBAdvanced portal pages must not be loading the javascript to open the popup for some reason. Send me your forum link via PM and I can have a look for you.

As for the Chatbox popup to always stay on top, I don't think thats possible, the popup is a browser window, and I don't think there's an option for a browser window to stay on top all times, but I could be mistaken. Page authors could abuse that kind of option I think.

Thanks but I sorted the first question. I needed to put the full url in both bits of code in the navbar template.

Thanks..... :)

Installed on 3.6.4 and seems good so far....

Can't make up my mind as to whether to out the chatbox at the top of the forum, or at the bottom. Looking forward to other code development on this very simple, yet effective system..... :)

Regards,
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