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.

[Kimiko]

Thank you so much! Love it! Upgraded on 3.6.6 and so far so good! :up:

[arco]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Looks like this * Badger :lol: * X

You have to add the image to the smilies section in your admincp, and assign the :lol: code to it.

[Mark.B]

I'll say again for anyone contemplating it, this is THE definitive shoutbox addon for vB, and it does work in 3.6.6....the only thing is that that you'll need to follow the instructions in my post above for adding the code to the NAVBAR template, as in 3.6.6 that template has changed.

[GateKeper]

Installed on 3.6.5 and working,,,well it's working so well I have it as a pick in the navbar, and a shoutbox at the top of my main page, and also one at the bottom of my main page.

I think somehow I installed way to much, and not sure now what code to take out, any ideas ?

I would like to have it only on the top of the main page just below the navbar, and I really don't need the button on the navbar do I, it can stay, but how do I remove the shoutbox from the bottom of the page....?

Please help

Otherwise it's working out great.....

[Tearstone]

Installed this today, works great!

[Dream]

Originally Posted by GateKeper

Installed on 3.6.5 and working,,,well it's working so well I have it as a pick in the navbar, and a shoutbox at the top of my main page, and also one at the bottom of my main page.

I think somehow I installed way to much, and not sure now what code to take out, any ideas ?

I would like to have it only on the top of the main page just below the navbar, and I really don't need the button on the navbar do I, it can stay, but how do I remove the shoutbox from the bottom of the page....?

Please help

Otherwise it's working out great.....

Remove the forumhome template edit described in install.txt

[Mads]

Originally Posted by Mark.B

The navbar code has changed and that line is not there any more.

Just put this at the VERY TOP of your navbar template:

<script type="text/javascript">

function openChatbox () {
	chatbox = window.open('chatbox.php','chatbox','height=330,width=650,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,resizable=yes,status=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes');
}
</script>

:up: works

[Dream]

Originally Posted by Bod1968

Works fine except everything WITHIN the shoutbox is central WEIRD!
Installed on 3.6.6 gr8 possibly a skinning problem??

That's weird alright, maybe you have a CSS with align=center, like a span CSS with that.

Please click "mark as installed" if you keep using this.

edit: or a div with text-align: center

[Dream]

Originally Posted by Sir_Yaro

Thank you very much. I bother u about it cause i'm sick of vBShout. It has no support (or damn shity) and require so much resorses and bandwidth. Over 20GB per month in my case !!!

Download the zip file again and try product-chatbox-vB-3.5.xml please

[RemiAlone]

The colored usergroupnames and /me command don't work at my board. =/Any ideas on this? Running 3.6.6. btw.