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.

[agsguar]

This is an example to my site..

The smile are too big.

see you!

[Dream]

try

if (substr_count($smilie[smiliepath], 'images/smilies/general') > 0) {

instead

if ($smilie[smiliepath] == '/images/smilies/general') {

[Mark.B]

Dream you're very welcome to use my site as a live demo, however mine isn't *completely* standard as I added in dates by the shouts and also my shout input box and button is hidden to guests completely rather than just disabled (though I may put that back to default when I get chance to do the upgrade).

Also I haven't upgraded yet, I'm two versions behind, but that'll be sorted this coming week if I get time.

Thanks for you nice comments in the upgrade post BTW!

http://www.bowlandcentral.com/forum

[Dream]

Ok thanks Mark

[haytham]

I installed but isn't there like a guide to codes? I don't understand the me/ and html tags around the name.
By the way..mine is an Arabic forum but the chat is on the main page>>if you'd like I can give you a link.

[Dream]

Hi, from what I know this shouldnt work with arabic... so that's news to me.

The /me code you just use in front of messages to emote an action in the chatbox.

The html around user names is an optional html tag you can place around user names in the chatbox. Dont worry about it if you dont know what it is.

[haytham]

Hi,
You know what? I downloaded and installed the 1.3 version first and it worked fine but for the time that didn't wanna go away. But after I read on I found the latest version 1.9 and installed..and till this minute all is great..not 1 problem. I was using VBshout which was a disaster..it crippled my site but this chat is great and made me feel good again Jf you'd like to take a look you can see it here:
http://farazdk.com/353/

Thanks

[agsguar]

Originally Posted by Dream

try

if (substr_count($smilie[smiliepath], 'images/smilies/general') > 0) {

instead

if ($smilie[smiliepath] == '/images/smilies/general') {

Sorry Dream but doesnt work.. no appear any smilie.

Or I can write mannualy the 20 (url) smilies that I whant?

Thank you for your help.

[haytham]

Hey Dream..I have 1 problem...I can't write full sentences..only 4 or 5 words then I get strange numbers instead of words. Is there something I can do to make sentences longer..?

[Rented]

installed perfectly using instructions etc

Just wondering if i was to make the chatbox appaear at the TOP of the page rather then the bottom how would i go about it please?