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.

[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.

[DementedMindz]

yeah I had it on 0 since I been using it and it would work fine maybe its this I-E bug who knows cause I been testing it with one name on I-E and one on firefox. what about the error with the smilieys is that in the same I-E bug?

[Dream]

The smilies button is working fine in my testboard with IE7.

Did you edit chatbox.php?

edit: I'll have to go now, I'll be back later

[DementedMindz]

nope its all stock if you click the smilieys button it will give you a error like I posted a few pages back with the screen shot im just going to remove it now and try another one thanks anyway.

[jerseyda6]

is there a way to put the box on the top of the page?

[jerseyda6]

and can you make the box bigger at all?

[odonel]

Originally Posted by Dream

If you create a BBCode for Flash you can.


Hmm why would you want to do this?


Can you post your autopost options?

Theres an option for moderator usergroups in the chatbox options that should show an X in each message to delete them.

here is the option part of autopost

// ########################## OPTIONS ############################
$user = 'admin';
$userid = 1;
$message = 'Good morning all!';

[arco]

Originally Posted by jerseyda6

is there a way to put the box on the top of the page?

The instructions are in the zipfile.

[Dream]

Updated, version 1.6

Fixed IE7 bug, the ajax code now uses vB's ajax functions.

[Dream]

Originally Posted by odonel

here is the option part of autopost

// ########################## OPTIONS ############################
$user = 'admin';
$userid = 1;
$message = 'Good morning all!';

I fixed the chatbox_autopost.php for you, the new file is in the 1.6 zip.