Version: 2.0, by Dream
Developer Last Online: Sep 2010
Category: Chat Modifications -
Version: 3.6.8
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Released: 11-06-2006
Last Update: 08-13-2007
Installs: 381
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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
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.
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I think I've found an anomaly, but I can't quite track down the sequence.
It's minor and I only noticed it after the code started showing in the "Who's on-Line" function, the fact that a user is in "Chat". I have noticed that on my system using v1.3 (also did it in v1.2), that it shows a "clickable" link to the Chatbox in the display, but under ""Who's on-Line", I'm always seeing myself and some others as being "in chat", when in fact, they never visited "Chat" at all during the current session?
Nice work! I was meaning to ask if you had considered using Ajax.
I was using Joomla/SMF before switching to vB, and used a really nice shoutbox as a module in Joomla.
That one used Ajax. It also had another feature which I would like to see you implement. Since I have your chatbox as a side module in vBadvanced, the space is limited. So I've removed the code that outputs the date before every message. In the Joomla shoutbox the nice thing was that if you held your mouse over the username of a person that had sent a message, it showed how long since that message was entered. Would be cool to have that here too.
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04-30-2007, 11:42 AM
