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.

[Xil Ze]

edit: it does work with 3.6.4

[redraider]

Before I install it on my forums, I wanted to ask: can this be installed as a side module on VBAdvanced. I just wanted to make sure before going through with the install.

Thanks

[Dream]

Yes you can. Just follow the instructions on vBadvanced on the zip file, or use the vBa module zip file. Courtesy of arco.

[Dream]

redraider, please mark as installed if you use it thanks!

[EDUB]

Originally Posted by Dream

GXT try this

Thank you for this. I wouldn't figure it out unless for this notepad.

[nebu]

hi!
I installed the hack and it works great.
but i have one little problem.
i added the code in the forumhome just below the $navbar entry.

the chatbox appears, but without the border (table/line/frame) i dont know the english word
(rahmen in german)

can you tell me how i can add the box aroung the chatbox?

thx,
nebu


EDIT: attachment added.

AND: in the upper right corner there is an icon to minimize the chatbox.
can i disable this function?

[tweak]

Nice Hack i Installed.

Question i have is how do i change the box color you type in?? I wanted to make the Box you type in black cuz i have white text. Now when u type in the box we cant see what we type.

[Dream]

Nebu, follow the instructions in chatbox below navbar.txt

Tweak, you have to edit chatbox.php.

[tweak]

Im real noobish can you tell me what to look for to edit that box color or anyone?

[Dream]

Edit chatbox.php, find

<input type="text" name="shout" size="'.$input_size.'" maxlength="255" class="smallfont"'.$disabled.' value="'.$message.'">

change it for

<input type="text" name="shout" size="'.$input_size.'" maxlength="255" '.$disabled.' value="'.$message.'">

that should do the trick

please mark as installed if you use this mod.