vB Chatbox 1.2.4

What this hack does : Adds a box on top of your vB home page
where all members can chat/shout in an IRC like way, with all the
vB options added (smilies, vBcodes....)

I started this hack by modifying the shoutbox made by Doug
Tanner for phpnuke (i think).. And it went far far from his original
code. As far as i think he wouldn't recognize it .

I integrated it as far as i could with vB, and in the admin CP,
with every bit of it being possible to modify trough the admin
CP (prune, ban, censure...)...

SCREENSHOT

This hack has been tested and used by some people out
there in france .

1.2.4 changes :
Install problems with the mysql reserved words solved,
Uninstalling option added to the install script,
Possibility to automaticaly add the templates to the
templatesets you chose in the install script,
IE6 problem with divs solved,
timezoneoffset mod integrated,
text input limited to 255 characters.

1.2.3 changes :
security hole on the pruning of the admin part fixed.

1.2.2 changes :
templatesused var filled with all templates used by the
script in the shoutbox.php file and in the index.php file.
And chmod 777 made on the admin/shoutbox_config.php file
by the install script. Thanks to erwin

Name changed from shoutbox to chatbox, because some people
thought of this hack as related with TWT-commish's shoutbox...
no more excuses


Here is some sort of [high]FAQ[/high] from all the thread,
hope this helps, and prevents you from reading all that i just read :

[high]#----------------------------------------------------------#[/high]
Erwin : limit of smilies a person can post in the shoutbox.
This is to prevent smilie spamming : HERE
[high]#----------------------------------------------------------#[/high]
Erwin : Another tip for installers - instead of manually having to
ban users in the shoutbox, to automatically ban users who
you have already banned from the forums : HERE
[high]#----------------------------------------------------------#[/high]
For the shoutbox to be in a popup : HERE
[high]#----------------------------------------------------------#[/high]
To have 5 'shouts/chats' visible when the chatbox is reduced :
HERE
[high]#----------------------------------------------------------#[/high]
SpeedStreet : This simply creates a link for people to click on so
that they can easily view the 'Who's Online' page without
having to dig for it : HERE
[high]#----------------------------------------------------------#[/high]
ThoughtDiver: if you want the date format on the shout timestamps
to read Month/Day instead of Day/Month : HERE
[high]#----------------------------------------------------------#[/high]

[p0s3id0n]

Today at 10:46 PM Erwin said this in Post #261


Read this thread - the solution to this has been posted.

I have even put a link to the post in the first post of this thread

[high]* p0s3id0n reports obvious leaziness (not sure about the word) to a mod
[/high]


by the way, really nice mini chatbox ...

[Dennis B]

Thanks Erwin and thanks p0s3id0n.

[Dennis B]

Actually guys, the links in the first page don't work directly. It's all in terms of "shout_box", must be an earier version. I could go ahead and just replace all "shout..." with "chat...", but I'm wondering if there's something else that changed with the latest releases.

thanks...

[X-Fan]

Today at 05:08 AM p0s3id0n said this in Post #243
@ x-fan : i think i'll make another archive of this hack in
zip format since it seems that some people can't extract rar.

Thanks p0s3id0n! Let us know when the new archive is posted.

[p0s3id0n]

here it is updated in zip format

[NuclioN]

Maybe i've overlooked it but is there a way to prevent guests reading the shoutbox? Tnx in advance.

[Dennis B]

NuclioN,

Just ban the user [space] in your chatbox control panel. That's just hitting the spacebar.

p0s3id0n & Erwin,

The code changes mentioned in posts # 68 and 70 in this thread (where the first post links point to) doesn't seem to help me get 5 messages in the "closed" version of the chatbox. I believe it must be because there has been some change to the code, since the code posted refers to "shout" stuff instead of "chat" stuff.

I've tried to insert

PHP Code:

$chatbit .= "<br>"; 


in two places to match the code you posted, but it didn't work. What I have now is

PHP Code:

}else{
        $chat_row = mysql_fetch_assoc($chat_result);
        $name = $chat_row["name"];
        $comment = $chat_row["comment"];
        $date = $chat_row["date"];
        $date = date("Y") . "-" . substr($date, 4, 2) . "-" . substr($date, 1, 2) . " " . substr($date, 7, 2) . ":" . substr($date, 10, 2);
        $date = date("[d/m|H:i]", strtotime($date) + ($bbuserinfo['timezoneoffset'] * 3600));
        $comment = parseurl($comment);
        $comment = ereg_replace("sessionhash=[a-z0-9]{32}", "", $comment);
        $comment = ereg_replace("s=[a-z0-9]{32}", "", $comment);
        $comment = bbcodeparse($comment);
        $comment = str_replace("<br />"," ",$comment);
        $comment = str_replace("<br>"," ",$comment);
        $comment = swear($comment);
        if(substr($comment,0,3) == "/me"){
            $comment = stripslashes(substr($comment,3));
            eval("\$chatbit = "".gettemplate('chatbox_bit_me')."";");
            $chatbit .= "<br>";
        }else{
            $colorirc = $un_color_chat;
            $comment = stripslashes($comment);
            eval("\$chatbit = "".gettemplate('chatbox_bit')."";");
            $chatbit .= "<br>";
        }
        eval("\$chatbox = "".gettemplate('chatbox_fermee')."";");
            }
        } 


plus post #70's code, but it doesn't work.

Thanks for any advice.

[wolfman]

Well I still have no smilies in the smilie popup for the shoutbox anyone have any ideas what may be causing this problem?

[geezzaa]

I got the same problem. all i got is a chat window. i dont have anything like the screenshot in the first post.
can you help please.
the chatwindow is www.ukcultivator.biz

[p0s3id0n]

@ Dennis B : i'm going to edit the post whe i give the tip about
the 5 chats thing.

@ geezzaa : i went as a guest on your forum, and everything
seems to work fine for me, what did you think there should
have been on your main forum page ? (by the way : nice topic,
your board ).