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.

[GnG_ShoOk]

it said, the my 404 page cannot be found. I noticed in the install guide that is says find:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

^^ My Vbulletin didn't have this, so what should i do?

[MelH]

Can someone please tell me how to change the height of the chatbox?

Thanks...

[Dream]

Originally Posted by GnG_ShoOk

it said, the my 404 page cannot be found. I noticed in the install guide that is says find:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

^^ My Vbulletin didn't have this, so what should i do?

You must have a custom style, you have to choose somewhere to put the Chatbox link in the style, or not use one at all. The box Chatbox goes has a link.

Originally Posted by MelH

Can someone please tell me how to change the height of the chatbox?

Thanks...

Find this in FORUMHOME template

<div class="smallfont" align="center"><iframe src="chatbox.php?nofocus=1" width="100%" style="border: 0px" frameborder="0"></iframe>

And replace with this

<div class="smallfont" align="center"><iframe src="chatbox.php?nofocus=1" width="100%" style="border: 0px, height: XX" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Where XX is the height you want. That should do it, *I think*. If not let me know and I'll look into it again.

[MelH]

Thanks for your quick reply... but I'm afraid it didnt work.

To change the height I did as you said. Changed to this:

<div class="smallfont" align="center"><iframe src="chatbox.php?nofocus=1" width="100%" style="border: 0px, height: 500px" frameborder="0"></iframe>

also tried just 500

But there is no difference..

[Dream]

Sorry, do

style="border: 0px; height: 500px"

use ; instead of ,

[MelH]

Thanks so much, that did it.
But obviously 500px is too big.

Thanks for a great mod

[mawby]

Would it be possible to repost the contents of the send message box during arefresh so that its contents is not lost when an automatic refresh occurs?

[rnmcd]

What changes were made in the Last Update: 16. Mar 2007?

Can this be installed to work in an forum other than forumhome?

[MelH]

I have this Chatbox in a vBadvanced CMPS side module and its working great.

When I am on the forumhome pages the pop up works fine but when I am on the CMPS portal pages I get a page not found error in the pop up window.

The link in the Navbar has the full url to chatbox.php so I don’t understand why it doesn’t work all the time. Anyone have any ideas??

Also while I’m here - anyone know how to make the pop up chatbox always stay on top when other programs are accessed?

Any help would be gratefully appreciated - thanks…

[rnmcd]

I installed this on two different vb 3.6.4, with different results:

1) On one installation I have a working Chatbox link in the Navbar but the Chatbox doesn't appear in the "What's Going On?" area. Any idea what I did wrong? By the way, I didn't do the "chatbox below navbar.txt" instructions.

2) (fixed)

Thanks.