Version: 2.0, by Dream
Developer Last Online: Sep 2010
Category: Chat Modifications -
Version: 3.6.8
Rating:
Released: 11-06-2006
Last Update: 08-13-2007
Installs: 381
DB Changes Uses Plugins Template Edits
Re-useable Code Additional Files
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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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Seems to work fine now with the new file. Good work!
Edit: Noticed it added current time before the username/message even though I took out $time from the code. I have "Show Time?" off in options too, but that's only for the time before the input box I think.
Edit2: Maybe you should make an option to turn of time completely in messages too?
Edit3: LOL!! I went to another page, and when I went back to the page the chatbox is, the time I mentioned in my first Edit: is gone.
Found a bug while using Internet Explorer 7, use this chatbox.php while I work on a fix, or the "no ajax" version.
Arco, yeah it's ajax now, remember? :P you won't be affected by this bug, it's related to the time before the text input, it's not being updated correctly in IE7.
Seems I was using a variable with the same name as one used by vBulletin's javascript, and it gave errors just in IE7. I updated the zip, just update your chatbox.php if you installed before.
Upgraded to 1.4 but had to go back to 1.3: In IE7 the Chatbox doesn't refresh either automatically or manually using the Refresh button. The only way is to refresh the whole page. But 1.4 works in IE6, Firefox and Opera. Ajax works on the rest of the board in IE7, i.e. edit post.
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05-01-2007, 03:10 AM
