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Originally posted by LightBringer
That would be great..let me holler at TWTCommish and point him to this thread

LOL, I have done a quick integration of this with vBindex, but it would be nice if I could fully integrate it for v2.1 which is comming soon.

Anyway heres what to do:

Add the attached templates, the make this change to vbindex.php:

find:

PHP Code:

// left & right templates
// ------------------------- 


Directly above it add:

PHP Code:

// start shoutbox by TWTCommish
$shout_limit  = 4;
$smilie_limit = 12;

  if ($type == 'shout' && $comment_submit && trim($message) != '' && $bbuserinfo[userid] > 0) {
    $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO shoutbox SET
                     userid      = '$bbuserinfo[userid]',
                     shout_text  = '".addslashes($message)."',
                     timestamp   = '".time()."'");

    header("Location: $PHP_SELF?s=$sessionhash[sessionid]");
  }

   $shouts      = $DB_site->query("SELECT u.username, u.userid, s.shoutid, s.shout_text FROM user u, shoutbox s WHERE u.userid = s.userid ORDER BY s.timestamp DESC LIMIT $shout_limit");

      if (!$DB_site->num_rows($shouts)) {
      eval("\$shoutbits = \"".gettemplate("shoutbox_error",1,0)."\";");
    } else {
      while ($shout_info = $DB_site->fetch_array($shouts)) {
        extract($shout_info);
        $subject = stripslashes($subject);
        $body    = stripslashes($body);
        $user    = ($HTTP_GET_VARS["userid"] > 0) ? "&userid=$userid" : '';

        $color       = ($num++ % 2 == 0) ? '#13486D' : '#1C5780';
        $shout_text  = bbcodeparse($shout_text);
        
      
        eval("\$shoutbits .= \"".gettemplate("shoutboxbit",1,0)."\";");
      }
   }

$metarefresh = "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"180; url=shoutbox.php?s=$session[sessionhash]\"> ";
  if ($bbuserinfo[userid]) {
    eval("\$shoutbox_postshout = \"".gettemplate("home_postshout",1,0)."\";");
    }
eval("\$homeshoutbox .= \"".gettemplate("home_shoutbox")."\";");
// end shoutbox by TWTCommish 


Change $shout_limit to reflect the number of shouts to be displayed.

And make sure you add $homeshoutbox in the home_right template (the format is for that of a side bar).

I take no credit for this hack, I have just modified TWTCommish's shoutbox code to fit in with this hack. The origional shoutbox must be installed for this to work.