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 vnairp11

http://thetechlife.org/index.php

shoutbox installed fine however the change colors and size link dosn't show up. boxes i mean.

I don't see anything there, did you remove it?

Originally Posted by ColdSpirit

Hi again... i have one issue.. is there any issue with IE? when i access some site with this chatbox with IE is freezes.. when i access with mozilla it runs smooth..

Not that I know of...

[ColdSpirit]

Problem fixed.. was the vbulletin_global.js issue... found the fix in vbulletin.com

This Chatbox rules!

[Kestryll]

Does this go to the lower part of the forum home like in the screen shot by default?

[Dream]

Yes, to use it on top of the forums use the included instructions "chatbox below navbar.txt".

[RvG2]

dream, which one shall i download english?

nvm got it.

[RvG2]

I believe this is one the chatbox that is so light in the server... hmmmm. I will stick to this one.

[Invalid ID]

Is there any way we could stop the URLs from being posted in the chat box?

Also sensor system?

[RvG2]

after using this... server load is so light. make sure not to set it less than a minute.

[BioWaffen]

Can you tell me, where I have to edit or put in my usergroups, to disallow them to see the Chatbox on forums? Because if I edit on chatbox.php I get an error message

Best regards
BioWaffen

[RvG2]

You can into admincp - then vbulletin options - chatbox options:

See "cant view chatbox" then enter the usergroup IDs that will not be able to see the chatbox.

that's all.