I'll just say that i have an average of 8% server load and i have the shoutbox running my host doesn't have a problem ;)

And yes there is version 2.0 of vbshout at vbh :D:D:D:D

Well that's not really true. But people will so insist on using ever-cheaper hosts, thus you get what you pay for.

I'm on shared, it's not cheap, I can run the Shoutbox fine and it gets more than 1000 shouts a week.

I dont have a problem with my host either,i'm on shared and I pay $100 USD annually for my hosting package,and I dont find the shout to be server intensive,It is the most used feature on my board and my forum would be naked without it,with over a 1000+ shouts a week,so at the end of the day its all down to what hosting package you bought

erm.. inferno shout v5.0 is for websites, not for forums. current vbshout (shoutbox for forums) is still only 2.0

Have you checked the overall bandwidth usage of the shoutbox versus, say, anything else on vbulletin? I have a memory that it's something like two magnitudes difference. My site has recently changed hardware (I run on a dedicated server) and with the change I no longer have access to my webstats... when I have them again I'll post what I see.

It shouldn't matter what the translation is. I use the entity reference because they are effectively equivalent. However I could just as easily used "a89fysfh" or some other random collection of characters as long as I'm pretty sure they're a unique string. The changes I've made convert to the entity on storage but convert it back to an apostrophe for display.

I have never had issues with ' as an entity reference. It's one of the more basic ones. XHTML, under some circumstances, appears to have trouble with certain entity references it doesn't recognise ( ) but then I just use the unicode for those ones ( );

Edit: Realised I'd not responded to everyone I wanted to.

not any noticable difference, guess it depends on your host :p

I get 1000+ shouts a day

ps: read the sig

I use this fix for the "Apostrophe Bug"
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1624

and I have the same problem with the edit field. But when I apply your Fix it doesn't work :-/

>> thisgeek : thanks works great ;)

you can get the new version which has no bugs and lower server intensity over at vBH read my sig :)

How come the RPG Inferno (lite) battles don't use AJAX ? Does the full Inferno have it ?

In an active forum this turn based system is soooo slow! Real battles are not turn based..

i seen on some forums that shoutbox doesnt appear until you register,
can anyone tell me how this could be done ?

goto admincp and lookup shoutbox settings, then tell it to show to guests or not etc

Thanks

The fix you've highlighted there is unrelated to the issue I'm working on resolving. Brad's fix to his code was to stop entity references appearing after he patched the injection vulnerability. I'm assuming that you've already applied Brad's essential fixes and I build on his work.

Mine is not about fixing the appearance of " or whatever in your shoutbox. Mine is about being about to edit shouts that have the apostrophe character...

'

... in them. If you attempt to edit a shout, prior to my fix, with an apostrophe in it then the text displayed to you will be truncated to the first apostrophe. Not exactly what you need... :)

Make sense?

Ah! Thanks rogersnm. I hadn't realised that ZT was back, just elsewhere. I'll check that out.

Quite a few pages back, Brad (I think) posted an alternate to the vBShout_fixed_v3.zip that is attached up top. The alternated solved my " problems.

maybe this has been discussed, but i dont feel like reading through 135 pages while i'm at work. anyways....

is there a way to get a report generated, that lists all the shouts made in the shoutbox? i know there's the archive, but i was wondering if i could set it up to send me a pm, od post them in a designated forum.

i have some users that like to start trouble, and i would like to review the shoutbox. please let me know if anyone can help. thanks!

Shoutbox version for the 3.6.0 , and this one, aren't they like the same?
if so why would it be codded different.
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if you read the sig and download the new version which uses flatfile - saves to a file and a database - then it will be quite easy to generate a report, easier than this...

thank you. any advice on how to get the report. i'm a newb when it comes to this

You mean like Moderate Shout.
Like if they say something bad, ?
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no, i have a few guys who act like they're 5 sometimes and i need to babysit them :lol:

i just want to be able to read shouts (like in the archive), but more on a page, and in the proper reading order.

Sometiems i go crazy in a shoutbox too...
I ususally just censor out words , you shouldn't need to babysit them really, i mean its a shoutbox ... not like a thread or anything personal like freeposting
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well you could make a second flatfile which clears every week/day and pm's you with the link :)

I know I read about problems with the shout box in Safari but can't locate the fix(s).

Buddy of mine just installed the shout Box and when I view in Safari I get this huge shout box.

The other problem is that the shouts don't register unless I refresh or it takes a minute or more. I mean it's AJAX right? Shouldn't that work fine in Safari or is there a setting or something that has to be clicked on?

I tried it in FF and it works fine on his site.

Isn't there a fix for the large shout box AND what's the deal with the slowness. I really need this hack but it has to work in Safari for me.

Any help or direction would be appreciated.

Is there any way to disable the AJAX part of this mod? I loved "Shoutbox Hack 1.04b". I'm guessing the only alternative is to use Chatbox Lite but I'm afraid what will happen if you can't moderate it.

nice... easy to use and installed with tha quickness!

can anyone tell me how to make it bigger in height?

vbshout options in your admincp >> Shoutbox Height
Change the height of the 'shouts' display element in pixels

can u explain more specifically? im new to this. would this be under

PLUGIN SYSTEM > MANAGE PRODUCTS > vBShout> EDIT/GO ?

if so, then what, cuz i dont see anything to what you said in there

are you talkin about this

Install:
?

its under vbulletin Options in your adminCP scroll down till you find vbshout then edit from there

ok nevermind i found it in GENERAL OPTIONS lol thanks anyways

Any help on this guys? :cross-eyed:

I believe safari has problems with ajax and javascript actually.

Ajax is bit pretty well into it so in short you'd be coding a completely different mod if you were to do that. Don't get me wrong it would be possible but i would need ZT's permission...

hi, just wanna know whats append to my shoutbox

when i try to send some special caracters like " or & or > or < or / \ etc [ french forum] it senf me the ascii caracter
like &quot; &amp; smth like that
anyone can help me?

That doesn't sound right...

Most of vB is built around AJAX -- all the inline posting, editing, modding etc is AJAX -- right? It all works fine in Safari.

But this hack doesn't. And then there is the issue of the huge shout box that expands to about 10 inces... :eek:

Isn't there a fix for the slowness and the large box (thought I read about it somewhere).

I really like it but it has to be functional in Safari.

This seems to get asked every 10 posts. It's not a big deal, but it gets kind of redundant having to post it over and over again. I find that the search thread feature works very nicely.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1624

thanks but on witch keyword do u search that?

thanks again its work

Safari ABSOLUTELY has problems with AJAX, its a known issue. Try looking at the same page with IE or Firefox, if it looks perfect then it is how Safari is handling the jscript.

The slowness has nothing to do with AJAX and really cannot be fixed, it is a network speed/utilization issue, not an AJAX coding problem.

I don't think you understand how AJAX works (and to be honest, this mod is not a very good choice to demonstrate what AJAX is supposed to be used for).

The shouts only refresh every few seconds because that is the refresh interval defined in the code. If you lessen it you will see the shouts faster but you will dramatically increase load and network utilization. If you are running this on a shared server then your service provider will probably shut you down. If you are on a dedicated server, the ISP may complain to you about the bandwidth utilization or try and charge you for the usage.

Again, this really isn't a very good demonstration of what AJAX is for, it has dynamic content and must be fully refreshed by all browsers every interval, so the fact that the whole page doesn't reload is nice but could be accomplished with iframes or something else.

If you understand RSS, this is the equivalent of turning your RSS reader up to check a news source every 5 seconds. There isn't much you can do to optimize this if 100 people are sitting on your homepage watching the shouts go by.

thank you! i had this problem too!