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.

[DementedMindz]

no no say for example you post on my site I wont see your message in the shoutbox until I refresh the page. when it should show right away cause of the ajax. as for the messages part what would happen is say your the admin you only erase the top 2 messages cause they were spam or something if I hit the refresh button on the shoutbox I will see them messages.

[DementedMindz]

Originally Posted by Legende

How can i do this? ;p

I just want it for usergroup 6 and 7 to show

<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 6,7)">
your shout box code
</if>

[Dream]

Originally Posted by DementedMindz

no no say for example you post on my site I wont see your message in the shoutbox until I refresh the page. when it should show right away cause of the ajax. as for the messages part what would happen is say your the admin you only erase the top 2 messages cause they were spam or something if I hit the refresh button on the shoutbox I will see them messages.

That shouldn't be happening. Can you send me your forum address in a PM?

Ajax doesn't mean the message appears right away, it has a refresh rate too. If you set it to 10 seconds it could give you the impression that they appear right away, it's the way vBShout works.

[Dream]

I was able to reproduce the IE7 refresh bug in my testboard, I'll be working on a fix

Maybe I should drop the custom code and just use the vB ajax functions.

[DementedMindz]

strange cause when I had done your post here https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=261 then the shout would appear right away but since the update it has stopped appearing right away and in the old one I even had refresh off also in admincp since I didnt think it would be needed cause of the ajax.

[Dream]

When you send a message it should appear right away. With the IE7 bug that may not happen.

Were you using the no ajax version or the 1.4 before? The IE7 refresh bug is with 1.4 and 1.5.

[DementedMindz]

nah when I was using the ajax version before this one and did these mods to the php file (chatbox.php) https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=261 they would appear right away but since the update they wont appear right away... well let me clear it up they appear for the user who posted the shout right away but for everyone else they have to hit the refresh button or they have to refresh the page in order to see new shouts. where as with the version before this with them mods it would appear right away.

[Dream]

How many seconds is your refresh interval set to?

[DementedMindz]

0 for disabled since i didnt ever use it and didnt use it in the previous version either

[Dream]

That's the problem, 0 disables ajax refreshing, you can only see new messages by clicking the refresh button.

Set that option to the number of seconds you want for the messages to update.

You need to reload the page for this new setting to take effect.