No limits, certainly, but if you're needing a constant pruning of your shoutbox then this post (earlier in this thread) will give you a link to a simple PHP file that you can run through vB's cron system to prune on a schedule.

It would be good if we could set what commands the mods and smods and admins are allowed to use.

i've been warned that thing system uses a lot of resources. my shoutbox gets about 1,500 shouts a day...how big of a server issue is that? in terms of bandwidth and resources.

Clear the shouts every night ^ ;)
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Tried reimporting and still have the same problem - no timestamps on the shouts.

Also, you have misunderstood my second problem. On the first screenshot in this thread it shows the vbShout options in the adminCP. By the side of some of those options are edit and delete links. I don't have those links. I am not referring to the ones in the shoutbox archive.

ok not sure if this is covered anywhere. I tried searching to no avail. I use VB 3.5 Black style and the default text is black over a black background. I cant find anywhere in the css to change the default text to white. Any ideas?

Thats not a problem, the screenshot was taken in the development (debug) mode where additional developer options are available. As the majority of admins have no need for these options (and it's not a good idea to have it on on your live board anyway) they are hidden by default.

Oh ok.

Still doesn't explain why my default install of vbShout doesn't have any timstamps in the shoutbox unlike the 3rd screenshot at the top.

very nice thanks for de answer, I have just to set the time I want it's perfect ! A shout limit is better but it's better then nothing.

I have jute one question left, if I run the file, the total of the shout for the users remain the same ?

Is anyone running this on 3.6 yet?

I'd like to also know how to close the shoutbox by default.

No. The shoutbox totals are calculated live on archive page view, so if a user only has made 20 shouts since the last cron-prune then that's all they will have listed.

However, that works really well for my boards because the users use post count as a measure of "board contribution" and shoutbox counts as a measure of "how much free time did you have in the past week" (I prune older than 7 days). I use the shoutbox to catch all the drivel that might otherwise have made it onto the boards proper.

Works fine on 3.6.

I have it on 3.6 b4. Running fine. No problems whatsoever.

I received an error when changing some of the options, but it works well with the default settings. Although it doesn't render quotation marks.

Hello, can someone tell me how may I make vbshout to log all the shouts in a file, or page?
I do not mean the archive page, but something more simple, do you have something in mind?
Thank you :)

I have installed vbshout on our forum. It's working except that I banned certian usergroups from viewing the posts. When I am not logged in, as a guest, I keep getting an error in that section.

Anyone know what could be wrong? Thanks!

Ashley

Hello If I click on "Shoutbox" happened nihts, I come not into the menu that can lie? www.buggy125.de
thanks
greeting jo

i didnt search through these 130+ pages, but when you type > or < in the shoutbox, the actual html code for that character shows up...i.e. &gt; and &lt;

any way to fix that?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...674#post958674;) :cool:

... look at post 1980 i need help
when i klick to "shotbox" nothing happend! why??
thanks
jo

Awesome - the vBShout_V3 fix that was posted quite awhile back works fine. Have no entity issues.

Also, Ronin Storm's Apostrophe fix works like a charm. Thanks!

i have a glitch to report.. and hopefully find a resolution to.. when i set vbshout to include the not logged in/unreg'd members to the banned usergoups list.. i see this error when i load my forum..

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /vbshout.php on line 293

.. yet when i log in.. it works fine.. any way to replace that error with either a blank box.. as i had set in the options.. ?

Has anyone tried to create multiple shoutboxes for the same forum? For example, I'd like the ability to have a private shoutbox in the admin forum.

Any idea how to do this?

Thanks!

i love the shoutbox... it works perfectly... but is there a way to delete the old content in bulk vs. individually??

How can i allow my Super moderators to ban users from shoutbox?

sure is. In the line where you type your messages, just type /prune and hit shout or your enter key.

or you can use auto prune

no help on the bug i posted above?

You're welcome. Glad someone else has had chance to make use of it and see it working okay for them. :)

I have a little problem, it seems that the symbol "€" don't want to appear in the shoutbox, have you the same problem too ? Is there a way to fix that ?
Thanks :)

Hello, my members suggested me to put somewhere a link to the smilies.
So, i think there is somethink that we do not use, the word "emotions" when smlies button is clicked. :)
http://img85.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture4ag0.png
You can edit the template forumhome_vbshout and find the word Emoticons, it is in the 13th line in the default template:)
You can replace that with:
Enjoy! :D:D

version 5.0 of shout?

Great modification!

Hi guys,

It's seem that I intalled it perfectly except that the smiles don't appear on the shoutbox panel. What maybe the cause why smilies don't appear?

Thanks

My host made me take this out because they said the server load was to high. Now we are all depressed.:( Anyone know of any good host that will let me run this?

The server load for this is shockingly high. Unless you own your own server then you can probably kiss this mod goodbye.

Yeah, after checking with several other hosts this morning. I realize this. No one seems to want this or any other real time chat applications. Oh well.:( Reluctantly clicking uninstall. :cry:

This post replaces my previous post on this subject, which I have (or will very shortly) edit to include a pointer direct to this post. Please see the bottom of this post for a bug fix to the original post.

BEGIN PREVIOUS POST:

Not seen this fix mentioned in the past 30 or so pages, nor does it come up on a thread search, so hopefully this is useful to some of you.

The Apostrophe Bug

The problem is that when you type a shout with one or more apostrophes in it when you go to edit that shout only the text up to but not including the first apostrophe appears. This is because, behind the scenes, the shouts are held in blocks delimited by apostrophes... so an apostrophe in the text truncates the result returned.

I've been running this hack-fix for around a week on a live board that receives 1000 or so shouts per week and I've not had any trouble.

In vbshout.php, on approx line 223, find:

... replace with:

On approx line 338, find:

... replace with:

On approx line 409, find:

... replace with:

In essence, this replaces instances of apostrophes with the entity reference &apos; for storage and then converts the entity references back to apostrophes just in time to be displayed.

Please note that I've used the various fixes (and fixes of those fixes) to remove the injection issues highlighted by staffers here. If you're getting &quot; instead of " in your shoutbox then you've probably not applied the fixes described in this thread on the posted "fixed" vbShout code and you probably should not use this hack-fix until you have.

Please let me know if you have any problems with this fix.

(ZT seems to be on indefinite leave so I've bypassed the bug reporting / waiting for response cycle so that people can try this out. I hope I don't offend anyone by this!)

END PREVIOUS POST.

BUG FIX (24 July 2006)

I discovered that there is an issue. Roughly, the issue occurs when you post a shout that has apostrophes, then go to edit it, submit that edit (which also has apostrophes in it) and then edit it again. The second edit retains the original apostrophe bug. This is because the AJAX edit was not also protected in the same way as the original shout.

The changes below should resolve this issue.

In vbshout.php, on approx line 518. find:

Replace with:

On approx line 524, find:

Replace with:

And that should be okay now. I believe. :)

Let me know if you have any issues with it!

Thanks for the bugfix.

The only thing I've done differently is to change the &apos; symbol to " &_#39;" (added an underscore cuz the post converts it to an apostrophe) because I read somewhere that &apos; may not work in IE.

I've also come across an issue (not related to the Apostrophe fix) where normal users can't edit or delete their own shouts. It appears to work, but nothing happens. If this is happening to you, here's the fix:

Edit vbshout.php:

In the function:
Find this line:
and change it to:
In the function:
Find the line:
and change it to:
Hope this helps.