"Who Is Online (Shouting)" in the vbShout shoutbox
 

The original vbShout is required for this (obviously) and can be downloaded here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=93097

Because my members keep using the shoutbox more as a chat room, they asked if it would be possible to get a list of users currently online/participating in the shoutbox.
OK, and this is what I smashed together as an answer to this request :)

This addon adds an IRC like userlist to the right side of the shoutbox.
Like the shoutbox itself, the userlist gets updated with AJAX calls as well, so it's always up-to-date, no reloading required :)

Technically it shows a list of everyone who shouted in the last three minutes.
Who hasn't shouted for three minutes is considered "to be somewhere else" and no longer available to talk to, and so does not get listed anymore.


*INSTALLATION*
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Is pretty easy.
Just upload the "vbshoutwol.php" to your forums root (i.e. .../forum/) and do the two edits (described in the README) to the "forumhome_vbshout" template for all styles you wanna use the WOL list on.

If you have the "Template Manager" installed on your board you can simply import the template .XML also included in this archive - this saves you the manual edits :)

"Template Manager" can be found here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=91038

Have fun!

Installed and works flawlessly! Thanx!!!

For anyone that is not too sure where to add the final code edit :-

It's the one at the bottom of the forumhome_vbshout template :)

Useful .. thanks for the hack Hellcat
Clicked install

Great Hack, Congratz!

I'm actually going to transfer the shoutbox on the Javachat page, in order to have a multiple shoutbox / irc java chat page :D

Just a quick question: Is the one below the line to manipulate the time a user is show to be "online" ?

I guess the "3" is the number in minutes (vbshoutwol.php, line 8)

cheers, ze :raucher:

Thanks, works like a charm!

This is pretty cool, I'll add this asap. :)

Glad you like it :)


Yes, that's right.
You might chance this to whatever suits best for you :)

Excellent!

used the template manager, and installed it in seconds...flawless!!

<a href="http://www.gsnforce.com/forum/index.php?" target="_blank">http://www.gsnforce.com/forum/index.php?</a>

Mine just keeps constantly loading