Dream's Chatbox
 

This adds a simple Chatbox in your forum home page for your members to chat.

The Chatbox is like a thread, members leave small messages in it for others to see. Think of it as an off-topic thread that never ends. The Chatbox can also help keep chatting out of the threads.

This mod is light on the server, uses little server resources to work. The default refresh rate is set to 5 minutes. You can disable automatic refreshing entirely in the options.

What's the refresh rate? The chatbox updates the messages shown every given seconds, that's the refresh rate. It sends a request to the server asking for new messages every X seconds, that you choose in the options.

Warning: If you set your refresh rate to 10 seconds this mod stops being so server friendly. You can do it, but be sure your server can handle it.


Features:
- Ajax (no page refreshes)
- Pages
- Set refresh rate in seconds
- Hide Chatbox contents from certain user groups
- Set user groups that can't send messages but can view chatbox
- Moderator user groups that can delete messages
- Disable auto refresh for guests
- Prune messages by user ID, user name, days old or all
- Enable/disable smilies, bbcode and [ img ]
- Automatic URL parsing
- Users can delete their own messages
- Smilies popup with all smilies you can use in messages
- Who's Online Support
- Show message dates or not
- User names linked and colored with their user group colors
- Banned Users
- Hide refresh button
- /me code
- Optional message colors
- Bunch of options in the Admin Control Panel

Live Demos: (leave your live demo in this thread!)
http://www.fliz.ru/ (russian)
http://www.sustainabilityforum.com/forum
http://www.virtualorbit.com/
http://www.bowlandcentral.com/forum


VERSION HISTORY



This mod is now final. It has all the features I think a chatbox should have, so I won't be adding more features to it. Anyone has my permission to use this as a base for another mod. It will still be updated for bugs though.

thanx alot

Awsome mate.I am using vBshout though but this is great.I would nominate it for HOTM but I already nominated APM :(

I receive the following MySQL error during the Product Import:

MySQL Version: 4.0.27-standard-log

PHP Version: 4.4.4

Sounds awesome, I'll check this out ASAP. Cheers, Dream. ;)

THanks!

Shoutbox 2.1 uses less Performance then 2.0.

But this happens if everybody only looking at vb.org .... :D

http://www.vbhackers.com/f76/ajax-fl...ut-2-1-a-4536/

Thanks alot :)

I updated the code SgtTechHead, should solve your problem.

I wanna know why someone gave this 1 star.

Oh if you are using 0.6 don't upgrade with 0.7, uninstall and reinstall. I changed the product ID. You may have to manually remove the "chatboxlite_shouts" table from the database too, im not sure if the 0.6 uninstall code removes it. The 0.7 uninstall code does remove the shouts table, so be careful. The shouts table has been renamed from "chatboxlite_shouts" to "chatbox" in case you wanna know.

If you wanna modify it and share modifications be my guest.

nominated as hack of the month :) installed

Thank you sir! I'll give it another go then.

EDIT: Well done, works great now :)

Nice thanks

Thanks guys :)

I updated the FORUMHOME template edit so the iframe in Internet Explorer doesn't show a border. Just put this

frameborder="0"

inside the tag

<iframe src="chatbox.php?nofocus=1" width="100%" style="border: 0px">

I updated the instructions on the zip file.

Cool how guets can post :)

Thanks Installed ! But Can you Tell me how to add the chat box to the top not in the bottom ... !

Installed. Thanks.

Depends on where you want it. Only on the forum home, below what?

Can permissions be set in usergroup manager? I'd like to prevent unregistered people from using it. If so then I'll be trying it out.

thanks!

This got over 1000 Views Very fast, potential

I'm sorry, but how can I delete shouts?
is there like a command?

By editing chatbox.php, you can set usergroups that can't use the chatbox.

You click on the "X" near a shout.

Very nice. Installed with no issues.

edit: nevermind there was an issue. After the install I couldn't upload attachments even though I have the quota at 0 (no quota). Disabled chatbox and attachment uploads worked fine again so I completely uninstalled chatbox.

Any idea why this happened?

Uhm no. Aren't you in two usergroups, one with 0 quota and another with maximum quota?

Ah yes . . .didn't realize I put myself in so many usergroups. I only checked two but one of the ones I didnt check had a limit. I'll try this again later tonight and let ya know how it goes.

Thanks.

Thanks again, works perfectly now. Here's the URL: SocalTrailRiders.org

Any way to bold comments made within the last x minutes?

Looking good :)

You would have to edit the code, could be a little complicated to do.

-edit- Spoke too soon. Great mod!
Would be nice to have the shoutbox and the messages seperated so autorefresh won't steal the focus.

Any compatibility as a vbAdvanced module?

Thanks for Mod!

Question: What is the easiest way to fix the navbar link on the vb advanced cmps page? The link to chatbox doesn't work from there.

Thanks.

just installed on 3.6.4 with no problems so far..I'd like to be able to include smilies and colored text though..any chance I could? Thanks..the other VB shoutboxes never worked on my VB..no idea why though.

Is it possible to run this at the same time as the usual vBShout... say... vBshout on forumhome and chatbox on another of the other forums? I ask because I know you can't have 2 instances of vBshout at the same time. Is this possible?

I don't suppose there will be an ajax version..............

All The Same Installed and working great..

Many Thanks

How can I set this so Some usergroups can not even See the chatbox?

Nice I will give it a try on 3.6.4

I have two stupid questions as someone who is very illiterate with computers. First, how do you delete some of the chat logs? I would like to keep mine between 3 and 5 pages. The other, is there a way for an auto-refresh? Any help is greatly appreciated, and excellent work on this program.

I am not the coder of this, but I do use it.

Click on the x next to the user on the posts you want to delete.

There is a setting in the chatbox.php file that allows you to set the time in sec. before it refreshes the chatbox. If I remember it is set to 300 seconds.

hope that helps.

Thanks scan-pa. I got the refresh and manual delete down.

Is there a way for it to delete automatically after either so many messages, pages, or time? If not, is there a way to mass delete? I ran it for about 24 hours, and 30 pages it seems that could be a problem. While I'm not really worried about space on my server, I don't want a log that goes on forever. Any thoughts? Thanks guys.

edit

Right now there isn't a way unless you code it, sorry. I plan on making Admin Control Panel options for this with mass pruning. I'll keep your idea in mind to add mass pruning by date, page etc. There's no problem for the chatbox to keep lots of pages. I'm a little busy lately though, so if anyone wanna code this be my guest.

Everybody that loads the index will now be shown at the chatbox at who is online, how can I change that?


Ok, this mod is sucking too much ressources - uninstalled. :(

*edit2*

With a simple wget cronjob set up that creates a static html file everything works fine now, I'd really recommend everybody doing that - especially on high loaded index pages.

Thanks Dream. Keep up the great work!