Okay thx for your quick answer.....When Guest post is there a way that the guest has a number below Guest

What text would you like to be posted every hour?

What do you mean by guest number?

If you mean a visitor number that's not possible, sorry. vBulletin doesn't keep a count of visitors.

What text would you like to be posted every hour? mhmm Hello at My-CheckPoint.de or what ever :)

I will try to make the cron files you requested :)

Check this thread back later.

Thank you for this Chatbox!

How about a pop-up for vBcode and [IMG] or something else to help people to fill in the vBcodes?

Maybe, I would have to think this through.

I will happily release the cron file I made to prune the shoutbox, I just need to wait 48 hours so I know for certain it still works with the newest release. :D

It is very basic though and is hard coded to 48 hours....whilst that can be changed quite easily, it may be possible for someone to write an admin option into the hack to make this user-configurable.

Bit beyond my rather basic skills though that....all my cron is is a lift of some code from the original hack, placed into a php file. :D

No problem, I'll see how the other vB cron files work and make some for this mod, thanks Mark.

eurofunny, see if these work for you, the instructions are in cron.txt

Many thx for this.

At the autopost-test comes this error

Now is it ok

Yes it is ok. You don't need the global line though.

would be nice to see the smilies in a button rather then a image think it looks a little nicer but all in all great mod. also why when you shut off refresh from admincp since im using ajax version dont it remove the button since it wouldnt be needed with ajax?

If you disable refresh the user should have some way of refreshing it manually. (not sure I got your question)

I guess he means that since it uses Ajax the refresh shouldn't be needed. That's how the shoutbox I used in Joomla worked. It did an automatic refresh by itself whenever a user sent a message. There was no need to press or wait for the refresh, since the message appeared instantly when the user pressed send.

exactly what I mean there really should be no need for a refresh button at all with the ajax version.

Arco, there is no way to refresh a page exactly when the user posts a new message, I think your last shoutbox had a low refresh interval instead.

I can add a hide refresh button option in the next version.

another feature would be to put the smilies on a button where the refresh would be instead of the smilie image.

A button written "smilies"? Same as the refresh button?

well the refresh button removed on the ajax version... but yes a smilies button that will open the smilies instead having the image

Ok I'll think about that

Right now you can edit your chatbox.php, find

<input type="button" name="refresh" value="'.$text_refresh.'" onclick="getNewShouts()" class="smallfont"> '.$pagelinks.$smilieslink.'<br /></form></div>'."\n";

replace for

'.$pagelinks.' <input type="button" name="smilies" value="smilies" onclick="openSmilies()" class="smallfont"><br /></form></div>'."\n";

and remove these both lines

document.chatboxForm.elements['refresh'].disabled = true;

document.chatboxForm.elements['refresh'].disabled = false;

nice thank you that works real well looks much nicer too along with that mouseover time

You're probably right. :) It had this cool fade effect on the text message when it appeared, making the impression it happened realtime. :)

ok, i went thru 18 pages looking for the answer to my question. someone else had asked it on page 6, a reply was given on page 7, but it was incomplete.

the question, in my own words, was how do we remove the chatbox from below the 'who's online' section because we want it under the navbar?

i put my shoutbox under the navbar, and it's there, but now my forum has 2 frickin shoutboxes.

also, your instructions do not specify where to put the chatbox.php.

back to the chatbox on my forum, in both spots, it's showing the word 'array' just to the left of the box to input text.

1) You will have to delete the script in your forum template that has it under the who's online to make it only appear under the navbar.

2) The chatbox.php would have to be loaded into your index.

3) If 'array' is being shown then the chatbox hack was pasted into the middle of another script. That's not a good thing! Be careful to select the chatbox script and delete it, then put it after the 'array' script.

Thanks Flow Fusion.

seangworld, the chatbox.php goes in your main forum folder, I missed that in the install.txt and will be there in the next update.

To remove the bottom chatbox, remove the forumhome template edit in install.txt.

Not sure why array is showing for you (it isn't for other people), send me the url for your chatbox installation via PM for me to check it out if it's still happening.

I have read through the whole thread but I am still a bit confused with the 2 different versions.

Will the 1.4 version autorefresh and can I set the time delay on it? I have no idea what Ajax is all about :D

Yes the ajax version has the option to set a refresh interval too. Ajax just means the whole page doesn't refresh, the javascript talks to the server and updates (refresh) the messages.

ok, i have just installed the 1.4 but I am getting a 404 page not found error

http://www.marineaquariumsa.com/forums.php?#

Did you upload chatbox.php to your main forum folder? I forgot that in the instructions :/

do I not have to upload chatbox.php?

ah ha, ok, hang on :D

You have to upload it to your main forum folder (the same directory your forum.php is)

edit: ok cool :)

Perfect, thanks for the help, awesome mod, I have clicked Installed, thanks buddy :)

Cool glad you like it :)

For some reason there are people that just sit and wait for new mods to be released just to rate them with a 1 star. Seems to happen to every newly released mod these days. Don't ask me why, but it's childish at any rate.

Anyways, this mod looks fantasticm, thanks.. Haven't had a look at it. I have vBShout 2.1 and am seriously considering installing this one after work today, or sometime when I get around to it this week.

So we dont have to up chatbox.php? Might want to elaborate on that in the directions as to weather it is needed or not.

So in version 1 of Chatbox, the entire page would refresh (not just the chatbox)?

thanks.

Installed, Uninstalled, and tried to Reinstall and am getting the below error.

I was able to reinstall it by deleting the 'chatbox' table via phpmyadmin. But, just thought I'd let you know.

You need to upload chatbox.php to your main forum folder, that's missing from the instructions and will be there in the next update. (I replied this a few posts before yours)

Version 1.3 reloads the page, version 1.4 just adds the new messages without reloading the page.

The uninstall code is commented for some reason, it will be uncommented in the next update. You can see it commented out if you edit the Chatbox product. I think I was testing something and forgot to uncomment, sorry.