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]

Originally Posted by under_takers

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.7:

Invalid SQL:
DELETE FROM vb_productdependency WHERE productid = 'chatbox_lite';

MySQL Error : Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction
Error Number : 1205
Date : Friday, June 1st 2007 @ 08:55:08 AM
Script : http://www.xxxxx-xxxx.com/vb/admincp...=productimport
Referrer : http://www.xxxx-xxx.com/vb/admincp/p...?do=productadd
IP Address : 125.209.xx.xx
Username : xxxx-xxxx
Classname : vb_database


well is there any solution ?

What are you trying to do?

[Dream]

Arco let me know if the update solves the problems you were having.

[arco]

I got this when loading the product.

 Database error in vBulletin 3.6.7:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE `vb_chatbox` ADD `color` VARCHAR( 20 ) NULL ;;

MySQL Error  : Duplicate column name 'color'
Error Number : 1060
Date         : Friday, June 1st 2007 @ 04:59:47 PM
Script       : http://www.fusion-racing.net/forums/...=productimport
Referrer     : http://www.fusion-racing.net/forums/...?do=productadd
IP Address   : 88.88.151.40
Username     : arco
Classname    : vB_Database

I'll try to bypass it.

[Dream]

Did you install the product file before? Have you reinstalled 1.7 product file after installing the 1.8 file? Try to remove the code that creates the color field in the table if you did.

[arco]

Ok, installed and the time issue is fixed now.

About the numbers, here's a clip from viewing the selected source.

 <div class="smallfont" align="left"><span id="timeNow">1180742664</span><form action="javascript:postShout()" name="chatboxForm"><input name="nofocus" type="hidden"><input name="isrefresh" type="hidden">

Notice the:
<span id="timeNow">1180742664</span>

[arco]

Originally Posted by Dream

Did you install the product file before? Have you reinstalled 1.7 product file after installing the 1.8 file? Try to remove the code that creates the color field in the table if you did.

Yep, I reinstalled v1.7 product after having installed v1.8. Did exactly what you suggests and all went fine.

[Dream]

There must be something with vBa setting the $time variable to a non Null value. Update your chatbox.php, I updated the zip file. All should work now.

[arco]

Yeah perfect!! Everything as it should be now. Thanks for fixing it so soon. Simply excellent! :up:

If I can just make one last suggestion...
When you hover the mouse over the X, it shows the time as when hovering over the username. Could that be changed to perhaps "Delete"?

[Dream]

Np cheers

[Dream]

Originally Posted by Sir_Yaro

Hi!

Two questions.

• Is there any way to edit shout(s)?

Sorry Sir Yaro, I won't be adding message editing on this mod. Check out MCG Chatbox, it's a good chatbox that has message editing. Ask the guy if he can make a product file compatible with vB 3.5.