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.

[dfb]

Is there a way for the box to automatically refresh itself every x seconds?

thanks

[sys4096]

Yes it does that - you can adjust the value by editing the php file

[dfb]

thanks for the help with the box automatically refreshing,

where in the php file can I find that. What do I look for?

thanks for your help in advance

[Flow Fusion]

Originally Posted by dfb

thanks for the help with the box automatically refreshing,

where in the php file can I find that. What do I look for?

thanks for your help in advance

In the shoutbox.php look for the
################### CONFIG VARS ##################

under that heading there is a bunch of configurations you can make including the one you asked for.

[Flow Fusion]

Originally Posted by 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?

Yes, in the chatbox.php under
################## CONFIG VARS ################

look for the heading $cantshout put in the usergroups you dont want ie 1 for unregistered and so forth.

[Flow Fusion]

Originally Posted by 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

Anybody solve this?

[kewlfoogle]

adding this line thats stated in your install.txt i get an error...

this line:

<!-- Chatbox -->
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_chatbox')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_chatbox" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_chatbox].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<a href="#" onclick="return openChatbox()">$vbphrase[chatbox_chatbox]</a>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_chatbox" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_chatbox]">
<tr>
<td class="alt1" width="100%" colspan="2"><div class="smallfont" align="center"><iframe src="chatbox.php?nofocus=1" width="100%" style="border: 0px" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<!-- / Chatbox -->

gives me this error:

An appropriate representation of the requested resource /admincphide111k/template.php could not be found on this server.

admincphide111k/template.php is indeed there.

[sys4096]

Originally Posted by Flow Fusion

Yes, in the chatbox.php under
################## CONFIG VARS ################

look for the heading $cantshout put in the usergroups you dont want ie 1 for unregistered and so forth.

That wasn't what I was asking m8, thanks for having a go but what I asked was if there is a way to make it VISIBLE to registered users ONLY

The above stops anyone but registered users from shouting, which is fine but I want to stop
non regged users even seeing the chatbox.

Cheers,
Paul.

[darkilla2]

i guess u can put it under the

<if condition member show> something like that forgot the exact words i knoe its right on top of the usercp links part

[SidelineSports]

Awesone! Installed! Love it!