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
No support by the author.
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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The shoutbox works for me but a lot of the users don't like the style of it. It's too cramped, and the writings too small. Plus you can't use colors. It's a good shoutbox and gets us by but I prefer the last one. I'm forced to use this one since the other one makes database problems.
Otherwise thanks for the hack I really cannot wait till an update is done. Thanks.
The shoutbox works for me but a lot of the users don't like the style of it. It's too cramped, and the writings too small. Plus you can't use colors. It's a good shoutbox and gets us by but I prefer the last one. I'm forced to use this one since the other one makes database problems.
Otherwise thanks for the hack I really cannot wait till an update is done. Thanks.
You can change the default text size quite easily by editing chatbox.php.
Users can use normal bb codes in the shoutbox so they can change their own text sizes and colours very easily, just as they can in a normal post.
The shoutbox works for me but a lot of the users don't like the style of it. It's too cramped, and the writings too small. Plus you can't use colors. It's a good shoutbox and gets us by but I prefer the last one. I'm forced to use this one since the other one makes database problems.
Otherwise thanks for the hack I really cannot wait till an update is done. Thanks.
What exactly you don't like about the style? (or your users) And what would you do to make it better?
I visited your site and I don't think it looks bad (but thats me), maybe your users are too used to and like vBShout better.
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05-13-2007, 11:56 PM
Someone has an idea?
