[ab420]

I was messing around with the chat box this morning, and this is what I came up with:

I have my chatbox only in a seperate window, so they have to click a link on the forum home page to open it. I don't want the big fully-functional chatbox on the home page, but I did want a way for people to see what's going on in there.

I took the chatbox_lite.php file, and renamed it chatboxc_lite.php

Attachment 50151

That is the chatboxc_lite.php file I used. I edited it so you can't shout, delete or refresh from this box. What you can do is edit the options in this chatboxc_lite.php file, such as how many shouts per page, which I set to 3, and set show pages to false.

I removed the chatbox from the forum home page, as I said before, then I added this code right under $navbar in the forumhome template:

<tbody>
<tbody>
	<tr>
		<td align="center" colspan="2"><div align="center">
			<a href="#" onclick="return openChatboxLite()">These are the last few comments in the $vbphrase[chatboxlite_chatbox]</a></div>
		</td>
	</tr>
</tbody>
	<tr>
		<td class="alt1" width="100%" colspan="2"><div class="smallfont" align="center" height="50"><iframe src="chatboxc_lite.php?nofocus=1" width="100%" height="75" style="border: 0px"></iframe></div></td>
	</tr>
</tbody>

What it does is shows the last few shouts, by allowing you to use a second set of options, but still works from the same database. By not allowing manual refreshes or shouting from the main page, the already minimal server load becomes almost nothing, but still allows people to see what's up in the chat room right when they get to your forum!

Screenshot:

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