Chat Modifications - Dream's Chatbox

This adds a simple Chatbox in your forum home page for your members to chat.

The Chatbox is like a thread, members leave small messages in it for others to see. Think of it as an off-topic thread that never ends. The Chatbox can also help keep chatting out of the threads.

This mod is light on the server, uses little server resources to work. The default refresh rate is set to 5 minutes. You can disable automatic refreshing entirely in the options.

What's the refresh rate? The chatbox updates the messages shown every given seconds, that's the refresh rate. It sends a request to the server asking for new messages every X seconds, that you choose in the options.

Warning: If you set your refresh rate to 10 seconds this mod stops being so server friendly. You can do it, but be sure your server can handle it.


Features:
- Ajax (no page refreshes)
- Pages
- Set refresh rate in seconds
- Hide Chatbox contents from certain user groups
- Set user groups that can't send messages but can view chatbox
- Moderator user groups that can delete messages
- Disable auto refresh for guests
- Prune messages by user ID, user name, days old or all
- Enable/disable smilies, bbcode and [ img ]
- Automatic URL parsing
- Users can delete their own messages
- Smilies popup with all smilies you can use in messages
- Who's Online Support
- Show message dates or not
- User names linked and colored with their user group colors
- Banned Users
- Hide refresh button
- /me code
- Optional message colors
- Bunch of options in the Admin Control Panel

Live Demos: (leave your live demo in this thread!)
http://www.fliz.ru/ (russian)
http://www.sustainabilityforum.com/forum
http://www.virtualorbit.com/
http://www.bowlandcentral.com/forum


VERSION HISTORY



This mod is now final. It has all the features I think a chatbox should have, so I won't be adding more features to it. Anyone has my permission to use this as a base for another mod. It will still be updated for bugs though.

[scan-pa]

Someone needs to add a few lines of code that only allow usergroup id"s to View the chatroom box.

How hard is that? Make it just like the readpms userid check, but use usergroup id checks.

[Dream]

Yeah it's not hard to do, I can do it for him if he needs.

[scan-pa]

Dream,

I think alot of us would like that option added in.

Thanks in advanced.

[Dream]

Ok I'll put it into my to-do list.

Would an option like this work?

$hide_from_cantshout = true; // hides the whole chatbox from people that can't shout. true or false

[evotion]

Great mod.. Thanks vm.

by the way, did anybody find a way to have the chat JUST show up in a forum of one's choice....

I'd like it to just show up only in forum ID 6, for example, and NOT the forum home.

Where do I got to make the required change.

[ra7al]

i'll try it

it seem good

[momo2]

can this be installed in the portal section only ? and yet still have the vbshout 2.0 in the forum ????

[vbreal]

how is this different from vbshout does it use less resources

[Dream]

Yes Vbreal

Yes Momo

[obmob]

Originally Posted by Dream

It's a lot more simple than vBShout.

Smilies are available.

I'll test it, thanks!