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.

[ezekiel97]

I cant find " <td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>" in my template, is it supposed to be something else?

[Ziki]

Originally Posted by Feckie (Roger)

I don't suppose there will be an ajax version..............

All The Same Installed and working great..

Many Thanks

This was made to replace the AJAX vBShout

[dfb]

I like this a lot as it is very simple.

How can I move the chat box? Where in the code would I place it to put it above my forums, just below the navbar.

Right now it seems lost in the Whats Going On section.

Many thanks in advance,

derek

[labocha]

What exactly does the "Refresh" button do ? On my site it does not seem to be doing anything ...

[marcsmith73]

Awesome...thanks!

[ep13]

it needs somthing showing whos in the chat room and autorefresh

[lard007]

Originally Posted by Knightmane

Is it possible to run this at the same time as the usual vBShout... say... vBshout on forumhome and chatbox on another of the other forums? I ask because I know you can't have 2 instances of vBshout at the same time. Is this possible?

Just done this - vbshout on CMPS with this as another module above it from admins only - all working so far - great add-on, many thanks!

[BarryoBrien]

does this work with vb 3.6.4

[Flow Fusion]

Originally Posted by BarryoBrien

does this work with vb 3.6.4

I am running it right now and so far so good!

[sys4096]

Great little chatbox, does the job perfectly for what I want, apart from 1 thing:

Is there any way to make this visible to only registered users, or members of a usergroup?