1. You will need to edit the templates
2. There should be drop down menus on each users name
3. Edit the templates and adjust the size of the iframe :)

Thanks for the great hack. Im sometimes hard headed but I got it to work when I read the readme.html file
Thanks again, Clicks Install

I am having what i think is a small problem and im most likely missing something very simple.

the iframe won't show on my forumhome.
i checked the forumhome template and there is nothing there to pull the shoutbox iframe.

the hack itself went fine and everything works.
is i go to shoutbox.php itself.

there is no popup being blocked from my firewall or my browsers.
i tried to use IE and firefox.

Did you do the edits to the templates?

Hi! Help me please! And forgive for my English!

If I press on the button "Send the message" in chatbox, the page of a forum entirely is updated. How to make, that the chatbox was updated only a chat?

no at the point of the hack installer the area for the template edits it says No readme files found

am i missing something ?

You really need to do the template edits...

and i glady would if there were some i could do,
again i checked the installer and the area for the template edits theres nothing there.

nvm like i said it was something simple, the zip i had hade no template.txt in it.
i redownloaded this one .

I uninstall and try to reinstall, and I get:
Warning: halt(includes/functions_log_error.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

whereas I am looking at that log.php where it supposed to be.

Hi! Help me please! And forgive for my English!

If I press on the button "Send the message" in chatbox, the page of a forum entirely is updated. How to make, that the chatbox was updated only a chat?

I just installed this on a win2003 server running apache and it installed no problems with no errors at all , bar 1 slight user error.

I noticed as i installed i was quite hasty when clicking NEXT maybe you should put tick boxes to make sure people have read what is being done before they can click ?

I also noticed that the README.html never displayed for me while installing and i thought that the hack didnt work - it was only after searching the folders that i found the README.HTML and discovered i had a few templates and files to edit ... after that everything worked perfectly.

Personally , I wanted a list of users online to be displayed in the shoutbox so that people didnt go posting when no-one was online (i know some people dont have this no-one else online issue, but my forum is newish) so i checked the script and added a tiny little code that i think helps a little.

on FORUMHOME template Find :
and REPLACE with :
All thats being added in is :
but where its placed is important to how it displays.

Thanks a million for the Hack - i had a shoutbox on the site already, but no-one used it as it was popup only - this one is a much better system.

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.3:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO settinggroup (grouptitle, displayorder, volatile)
VALUES ('shoutbox', '560', '0')
mysql error: Duplicate entry 'shoutbox' for key 1

mysql error number: 1062


Script:
http://www.x.com/forum/install/hack_...=Shoutbox_Hack
Referer:
http://www.x.com/forum/install/hack_...=Shoutbox_Hack


===========================================
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home2www/user/forum/install/hack_install_b2.php on line 1061



===========================================

Warning: halt(./includes/functions_log_error.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home2/www/user/cludes/db_mysql.php on line 389

Warning: halt(): Failed opening './includes/functions_log_error.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/php/lib/php') in /home2/www/user/m/includes/db_mysql.php on line 389

================================================== ==

Invalid SQL: SELECT varname, text FROM phrase WHERE varname IN () ORDER BY languageid DESC
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near ') ORDER BY languageid DESC' at line 1

Did you have another shoutbox hack installed?

i dont think so

I'll try it. Thanks

hmm....getting this error:

Warning: halt(./includes/functions_log_error.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/detailci/public_html/includes/db_mysql.php on line 389

Warning: halt(): Failed opening './includes/functions_log_error.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/detailci/public_html/includes/db_mysql.php on line 389

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.3:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO settinggroup (grouptitle, displayorder, volatile) VALUES ('shoutbox', '560', '0')
mysql error: Duplicate entry 'shoutbox' for key 1

mysql error number: 1062

Date: Friday 29th of October 2004 09:10:41 PM
Script: http://www.detailcity.com/install/ha...=Shoutbox_Hack
Referer: http://www.detailcity.com/install/ha...=Shoutbox_Hack
Username: Rick Sample

done and tried to reupload all files

Are you 1000% sure you did not insatall another shotbox hack, or have used vBindex in the past?

I just installed shoutbox on a clean install of vB 3.0.3, running at www.christianchapel.net

The install went fine, and when I go to ../shoutbox.php everything works fine as well. However, nothing is displaying on my mainpage. I looked throug the settings for shoutbox in the control panel, and can see nothing that would lead me to believe something was wrong. I also searched this thread, and could find no documentation that might be of assistance.

Any reason why, on my index.php page, the shoutbox does not show?

Thanks

Perfect & flawless installation - but I can't stand the iframe option, so I disabled it in the admincp settings.

Me clix install. Thank you!

A suggestion: How about a shoutbox admin block in the left column of the acp?

Did you follow the file edits? There is a point in the install procedure which requires you to click on a link to open the file edit instructions. I nearly clicked through it, without doing the edits.

Yes, I nearly missed that one to, but did not. I made all the edits, specifically to the ../install/vbulletin-style.xml document. I then, through my style manager, re-uploaded that as the default style. Yet, that did not seem to have any affect in getting it to show on the mainpage.

in forum/index.php
when i replace $phrasegroups = array('holiday');
with
$phrasegroups = array('holiday', 'shoutbox');

the main page got mixed up
all the statistic and etc things are gone and pretty much of the info on the main page is weird...

i have edited everything else and it's ok, but when replace and this....the problem appears...

I'm getting the exact same problem o_O

Actually, apart from that, I can't view it at shoutbox.php because it says I don't have permission, even though the usergroup is set to that, and only the first box appears in the drop down menu of the Admin CP o_O

well i installed it, i choose the iframe options, but it still reloads the whole page when i click "shout now"
instad of reloading only the iframe....
how to make it reload only the iframe, when posting new shout?

does it reloads on new shouts from other users, or only only per 90 seconds (or whatever else is set in the admincp)?

Question...and I apologize if the answer is in the thread I have not read the whole thread...

Is it possible to have a chime sound when a new shout is posted? I have this installed on two BBS's and both user groups want to hear a sound so they know when someone is trying to chat.

Beth :)

I installed this and all went smoooothly on my 3.0.3 board....

Just two stupid questions .... ( yes i'm a n00b to VB ) how do I get it to show on all forum pages..... And will there be an option to make the shoutbox a popup one ....??

I have installed it and everything went good, I get the box on my main page with a field for the shout and then I type in the shout field and click the shout button, it then goes to a new page that opens up blank with nothing on it.

Can anyone help me out with this?

I have vBulletin Version 3.0.1

Thanks for this hack. It's great, but I have a very interessting problem. When I activate iframe, the shoutbox isn't visible in IE but with Firefox :ermm:
IE 6.01
Firefox 1.0

Wonderful hack! Installed with no problems :)

I may have missed this reading the thread, but this is what I found.

If you set the minimum allowed characters to any value, 2+

and you type in 1 single character, the post is refused, but your post count increments.

Has anyone else seen this?

This is on VB3.03 with the shoutbox 1.04b

Hi, heres my little problem, one of my users (and only one) cant see the shoutbox : they see it like this (attached)

that is because their browser does not support iFrames...I have had the same problem, since I webmaster 4 boards, I had to change the setting on the shoutbox to non-iframe and everyone then was able to see it...

I also suggest trying to have you members, like I have been doing, to upgrade their browsers to the newest version out since its free!

Firefoxs is still the best to use in my opionion...and I too have had the same problem and my members with IE....have them either change browsers or upgrade to the newest version or just disable iFrames from the shoutbox and make it normal and everyone will then see it with no problems...

I notice a couple of people mention that they can't see the shout box in IE when in iframe mode ...

One thing you can check is any popup blockers or personal firewalls ...
I had the issue where I couldnt see it in iframe mode but others could - after posting like mad in here I looked at my firewall settings and it appears that the iframe was being seen as a popup and was being blocked.
Suggest disable any popup blockers and have them check again - it worked for me.

Thanks

I have had a few members not being able to see the shouts in shoutbox on forum home.

It was their firewall. I will ask them what they altered in their firewall config and what firewall they were running.

how to make the guests to be able to post in the shoutbox?

so far installed, but I have no "shoutbox permissions" in the Usergroup Manager.

missed a template ????

Thanks for help,

CtSolutions

is there a way of deciding what smilies can be used?