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.

[Flow Fusion]

I'm getting this error...

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.5:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT count(shoutid) AS total FROM chatbox;

MySQL Error : Table 'gifteds_lxp.chatbox' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Date : Monday, May 21st 2007 @ 01:17:30 PM
Script : http://giftedsouls.net/gs/chatbox.php

[Flow Fusion]

How can I install the tables manually?

[Fayden]

Is there a possibility to auto-delete all the messages in the shoutbox after a few time?
Would be nice if someone could help me with this

[arco]

Originally Posted by Fayden

Is there a possibility to auto-delete all the messages in the shoutbox after a few time?
Would be nice if someone could help me with this

Open the zip file and look in the cron directory for instructions on how to autoprune.

[arco]

Originally Posted by Flow Fusion

How can I install the tables manually?

Try to drop the chatbox tables (if you have phpmyadmin) or uninstall the product, then reinstall it to see if that fixes it.

[Flow Fusion]

Originally Posted by arco

Try to drop the chatbox tables (if you have phpmyadmin) or uninstall the product, then reinstall it to see if that fixes it.

I tried but to no avail.

[santimariani]

How does this compare to the inferno shoutbox in terms of resources used? thanks!

[arco]

Originally Posted by Flow Fusion

I tried but to no avail.

Run this query:

CREATE TABLE ".TABLE_PREFIX."chatbox (
    `shoutid` INT( 10 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
    `userid` INT( 10 ) NOT NULL ,
    `username` VARCHAR( 100 ) NOT NULL ,
    `shout` VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL ,
    `dateline` INT( 10 ) NOT NULL ,
    `ipaddress` VARCHAR( 16 ) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL ,
    PRIMARY KEY ( `shoutid` )
    );

[ComputerVitals]

How can I add custom commands to this?
like the /me command..

[TheBlackPoet]

the more i look at it.... the more i like it... i was so used to shoutbox.., but my site kept crashing because of the amount of resources it stole..., but this will work just fine.... in conjunction with the big flashchat.....

and like everyone else... i'm trying to figure out why i cant paste the chat on the upper part of forumhome..

good job and thanks