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.

[BioWaffen]

Ah okay thank you, I just thought there is only Chatbox, didn´t look into options^^

[ColdSpirit]

Hello... this is driving me crazy... now it is giving me and to others users this:


hope you can help me! Thanks!

[Dream]

Try deleting the [ code ] tag posted by Bolt in your chatbox, it's one of his messages

[rnmcd]

Anyone else notice that the "Unsubcribe from thread" option in not available to users (for threads to which they are subscribed) after installing Chatbox?

[Dream]

Here on vb.org or on your forums?

[rnmcd]

Originally Posted by Dream

Here on vb.org or on your forums?

On my forums.

Also, during my attempt to isolate the problem I disabled the product (chatbox) but for some reason the chatbox still worked. Any idea why?

Thanks.

[Dream]

Disabling the product does nothing in the chatbox case.

But I don't think it's the chatbox that is keeping your members from unsubscribing threads, as the mod doesn't do anything with other parts of the forum that are not chatbox.php only. I'm pretty sure you have some other problem that has nothing to do with the chatbox.

[rnmcd]

Originally Posted by Dream

Disabling the product does nothing in the chatbox case.

Is it possible to disable the chatbox or is the only way to disable it to uninstall it.

[Dream]

Only way is to uninstall it. You will lose your conversation though.

[rnmcd]

It is uninstalled via the admincp, right?

Also, will, adding

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

to config.php affect the Chatbox?