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[quote=leeman] sorryb to be repeting myself zero.....

i did this only last night with my forum, go to the php template for vbshout and find the following:

// ---------------------------------------------------
// Start Page Output
// ---------------------------------------------------

after that add this:

PHP Code:
 // ---------------------------------------------------
// AJAX Standalone Chat
// ---------------------------------------------------
 
if ($_GET['do'] == 'chat')
{
$navbits     = array("vbshout.php?" . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . "do=chat" => 'Chat');
    $navbits[""] = 'Shoutbox - Chat Area';
 
$Used    = 0;
$UsedArr = array();
$smilies = $db->query_read("
        SELECT smilieid, smilietext, smiliepath, smilie.title,
        imagecategory.title AS category
        FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "smilie AS smilie
        LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "imagecategory AS imagecategory USING(imagecategoryid)
        ORDER BY imagecategory.displayorder, smilie.displayorder
    ");
$Smilie_Build = '';
$Total_Smilies = $db->num_rows($smilies);
 
if ($Total_Smilies > 0)
{
    while ($emo = $db->fetch_array($smilies))
    {
        if ($vbulletin->options['shout_smilies_show'] > 0)
        {
            $Smilie_Cache[] = $emo;
        }
        else
        {
         $Smilie_Build .= '<a href="#" onclick="return sb_Smilie(\''.$emo['smilietext'].'\')"> ';
        }
    }
 
    if ($vbulletin->options['shout_smilies_show'] > $Total_Smilies)
    {
        $vbulletin->options['shout_smilies_show'] = $Total_Smilies;
    }
 
    if ($vbulletin->options['shout_smilies_show'] > 0)
    {
        while ($Used < $vbulletin->options['shout_smilies_show'])
        {
            $GetEmo = $Total_Smilies;
            $GetEmo = rand(0, $GetEmo);
 
         if (!in_array($GetEmo, $UsedArr) && $Smilie_Cache[$GetEmo])
            {
                $Used++;
                $GetEmo = $Smilie_Cache[$GetEmo];
             $Smilie_Build .= '<a href="#" onclick="return sb_Smilie(\''.$GetEmo['smilietext'].'\')"> ';
            }
        }
    }
}
else
{
    $Smilie_Build = 'No Emoticons Available';
}
 
$Options_DropDown         = array(); // Items included will be parsed to create drop down menus
$DropDowns             = array(); // Completed constructed drop down menus
 
$Options_DropDown['font_selector'] = array('Default', 'Arial', 'Arial Black', 'Arial Narrow', 'Book Antiqua', 'Century Gothic', 'Comic Sans MS', 'Courier New', 'Fixedsys', 'Franklin Gothic Medium', 'Garamond', 'Georgia', 'Impact', 'Lucida Console', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Microsoft Sans Serif', 'Palatino Linotype', 'System', 'Tahoma', 'Times New Roman', 'Trebuchet MS', 'Verdana');
$Options_DropDown['color_selector'] = array();
$Options_DropDown['color_selector'][] = 'Default';
 
$hex = array();
$hex[] = '0';
$hex[] = '3';
$hex[] = '6';
$hex[] = '9';
$hex[] = 'C';
$hex[] = 'F';
 
for ($a = 0; $a < 6; $a++)
{
    for ($b = 0; $b < 6; $b++)
    {
        for ($c = 0; $c < 6; $c++)
        {
         $Options_DropDown['color_selector'][] = '#' . $hex[$a].$hex[$a].$hex[$b].$hex[$b].$hex[$c].$hex[$c];
        }
    }
}
 
if (is_array($Options_DropDown))
{
    foreach ($Options_DropDown as $Menu => $Options)
    {
        $DropDowns[$Menu] = '';
        if (is_array($Options))
        {
            foreach ($Options as $Selection)
            {
             if (preg_match("#^\#([a-z0-9]+)$#i", $Selection))
                {
                 $Extra = ' style="color:'.$Selection.';"';
                }
                else
                {
                    $Extra = '';
                }
 
                if ($Selection == 'Default')
                {
                 $Text = (($Menu == 'color_selector') ? 'Color' : 'Font Face') . ' [Default]';
                }
                else
                {
                 $Text = $Selection;
                }
 
             $DropDowns[$Menu] .= '<option value="'.$Selection.'"'.$Extra.'>'.$Text.'' . "\n";
            }
        }
    }
}
 
if ($vbulletin->options['shout_banned_perms'] == 2 && isBanned($vbulletin->userinfo))
{
    print_no_permission();
}
else
{
    eval('$Shoutbox = "' . fetch_template('forumhome_vbshout') . '";');
}
 
$pagenav = construct_page_nav($page, $perpage, $TS_D, 'vbshout.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . 'do=chat', ''
        . (!empty($vbulletin->GPC['perpage']) ? "&pp=$perpage" : "")
    );
    $HTML = $Shoutbox;
}
// ---------------------------------------------------
// AJAX Standalone Chat
// ---------------------------------------------------

then disable your plugin using your admincp=>plugin system=>manage products

then add this link to your nav bar "http://yoursitename.com/forum/vbshout.php?do=chat" target="new"

this will make the shoutbox pop up on a seperate page

hope this works and thanks again to mtha + S@NL - BlackBik for helping me do this

sorry if this post is a bit vague i'm quite new here myself and havent really helped a lot of people