Dream's Chatbox
 

This adds a Chatbox in your forum home page.

Here's how it works: every 5 minutes the chatbox asks the server if there are new messages. You can change this 5 minutes to any number of seconds you want, but the lower you go the more server resources the chatbox uses.

Features:
- AJAX
- Pages
- Change refresh rate
- Hide chatbox content from chosen usergroups
- Set usergroups that can't send messages
- Set moderator usergroups that can delete messages
- Can disable auto refresh for guests
- Prune messages by user ID, user name, days old or all messages
- Enable smilies, bbcode and/or [ img ]
- Automatic URL parsing
- Option for users to delete own messages
- Smilies popup with all smilies you can use
- Who's Online Support
- User names uses usergroup colors
- Ban Users
- /me code
- Message colors
- and more

This mod is final, no new features will be added.

reserved2

I just saw the options of this mod after 1 year and I was overwhelmed. I don't remember coding all that. I must had too much free time.

Hii Dream ! Thank you for this Chatbox 3.7 :)

Nice one. Cheers! :)

I like this. Thanks for sharing it with us :)

A few things I noticed people were unhappy about when I switched to this chatbox from a prior chatbox and I wanted to know if there was a way I could fix these.

Bold, Underline, Font Style implemented in the chatbox. Also a way for when you select Font Color for the user not to have to keep reselecting their font color every time they type a message.

When you set it so that people can delete their own messages, the X appears not after the message, but after their username, hence the whole message doesn't delete, just the username of the person who posted the comment in the chatbox. The comment remains.

Lastly, how can I make it so that mods can prune, edit and delete messages from the Chatbox?

Other than that on the positive this chatbox is more readable than the other one we were using and also it fits in much better with the template. This will show you whats been done with it:

http://www.tonycomix.com/forum/

Since the install instructions threw me off cause I couldn't find:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

in the navbar template I just went into the FORUMHOME template, used the instructions for the Whats Going On? box, copied and pasted that code where I wanted the Box located and added it to the top of the forum that way.

This installation code is written for 3.6.8 and 3.7 templates. You're still on 3.6.6, so a search in the Navbar template for "calendar" will work. Insert the desired code just before the </tr> appearing after "calendar".

thank you

I dunno it sorta looks ok the way it is. However, still there is the issue with the delete code so I disabled it. Heres the way it looks on the board:

http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/1654/cbfq5.gif

Oh yeah one thing I forgot, when you click on the chatbox link, nothing happens.

Having the chatbox on your front page negates the need for a link on the Navbar, so all is good. Leave the Navbar link out. :up:

Toxizen, no new features are planned for this chatbox. You can choose from other two chatboxes that are full of features in the 3.6 mod forum.

This chatbox version is for 3.7, I see you are using 3.6.

Hey dream is it possible to put an image on the righthand side of the chatbox?

I think it would be complicated to do, you would need to edit chatbox.php.

Thanks for updating this, Dream, I was hoping you would since I have just upgraded to 3.7 and didn't want to use one of the other shoutboxes.

All working fine, for a demo (from a guest view) see in my sig, if the link is still there.

ok i'll just leave it.Thank you.

Running 3.6.8PL2 here and when I type a message and click send, box grays out and nothing happens. Refresh button doesn't work either. Can't seem to get chatbox working at all. :confused:

this one is for 3.6

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=131002

Damn my bad, thanks dream. What's the ole saying "if all else fails read the directions!"
I have a 3.7 test board setup and was going to install on 3.6.8 first and then 3.7.0
I guess it's obvious I installed 3.7 product to 3.6.8 :o

Works beautifully with vB 3.7 Beta 4. Very nicely done, Dream. I love the simplicity and elegance of it.

Update: So, I have found a problem. I want to disable the Chatbox's use for non-subscribers. Subscriptions in vBulletin typically add a user to a secondary usergroup. However, if I prevent a primary usergroup from using the Chatbox, no matter what secondary usergroup they are added to, they are still prevented from entering text in the Chatbox.

Help!

Thanks!

Just installed and added it as a Vba module and there both working perfectly.

Cheers man

mm nice thanx

Any thoughts on this, Dream?

I am not sure the refresh button works properly on this version....If I post a shout on one account and then, on another PC with a different accoutn press the refresh button, it doesn't bring the new shout up.

I've tried it with "get all new shouts" both enabled and disabled tono avail.

This is exactly what I was after .Thank you very much for the hard work!

Dream,

Just a quick question! How come you no longer wish to develop this mod and add further features?

Just out of curiosty!

Because I use this on my own website, and it fits my needs. Also it already has a lot of features, and I don't wish to work on this anymore that is needed.

There are many different chatboxes to choose from too if you need more features. I don't think chatboxes should do and be so complicated as some are today though.

Hi Dream.

When I had this installed on 3.6.7 I managed to have it in the "Whats Going On" section, however for the 3.7 version I cant seem to find the template edits to place it there.

I know this is un-supported, but could you help please!

Thanks

Dave

in the zip file theres a text file with instructions on how to add there

Thank you. Installed and users loving it.

One thing, and this may be simple, but I can't figure it out.

How do you change the background color of the chatbox?

figured it out!

just paste in the iframe attributes.

I upgraded to 3.7rc yesterday and subsequently also upgraded Dream's Chatbox to 2.1. Now I (and my users) have random Ajax error messages popping up on the Forumhome where Chatbox is installed. This never happened while we were still running 3.69 + Chatbox 2.0.

See attachment.

Update: It seems the error occurs when, as the error message suggests, there is a communication loss. This can happen for instance when you unplug your internet connectivity while the chatbox ajax call is waiting for a response, or when you put your notebook to standby and resume again later.

Perhaps there is a parameter to vb's/Yahoo's Ajax routines to surpress the error exception?

Update 2: It seems there is. Yahoo Ui Library defines a YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest callback for handling failures: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/connection/ and vB is handling this via vBulletin_AJAX_Error_Handler.

OK, I replaced

with

in getNewShouts(), and the error popup seems to be gone.

Yup that happens here too when my computer hibernate and lose connection to the internet. If this gets too annoying I'll remove it depending on the status error.

Dream, there seems to be also other situations. I had a couple of my users report this to me the first day I upgraded to vB 3.7rc. To me it also popped up a few times when I switched back from another Firefox tab to the one containing my forum with the chat installed. It's probably best to make the error handling conditional and ignore it in case of a "connection loss".

can someone please tell me how many queries this thing will use? What are the pro and con among this with MCG and CChat?

When i am idle on the forum page it pops this error up.

"AJAX error, please try again (HTTP status:0/Communication failure)"

I see you guys are aware of this. Can u tell me how to disable this?