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]

Just the Who's Online support part, the chatbox will still work.

Uninstall it via the Plug-in and Products manager.

[rnmcd]

Originally Posted by Dream

Uninstall it via the Plug-in and Products manager.

Will I also need to undo the template edits?

[Dream]

If you are just testing your subscription button, no. If you want to remove the chatbox completely yes.

[rnmcd]

Thanks Dream. I am just testing my subscription button. I've enjoyed your mod.
Thank you.

[rnmcd]

Originally Posted by Dream

Uninstall it via the Plug-in and Products manager.

I uninstalled it via the Plug-in and Products manager but the Chatbox is still working on my site.

Why would that be?

[G-Element]

Great Product man! I used this on my forum great design and totally awesome features.
Really easy to install, everything works, no problems to run into.

B+

[p33r]

Hello there, we have been doing some testing with your chatbox. It's actually pretty cool (we also made an IRC <-> chatbox bridge thats working smoothly). Our only problem seems to be our custom spoiler-tags (BBcode). Spoiler tags are basically javascript boxes that hide text under them (for talking about new episodes of Tv-series etc.). When somebody tries to use the spoilertags in the chatbox the script dies quite spectacularly, stopping its refreshes and pretty much freezes in its tracks until you refresh. It allso throws an error message. It seems that it does not like when the javascript is embedded in the AJAX-requests, but on a full-refresh it seems to do fine.

I'l post the full error message (Using Safari on OS X), this happens for all users viewing the chatbox, and everyone has to reload. It's a bit anoying :P

Error: undefined var newshouts = '<span id="shout2714">[<span class="time">12:08</span>] [<a href="javascript:deleteMessage(2714)">X</a>] &lt;p33r&gt;: <input type="button" value="Trykk her!" class="button" onclick="showSpoiler(this);">
<span class="content" style="display:none">Testspoilerlolz
</span><br /></span><span id="shout2715">[<span class="time">12:08</span>] [<a href="javascript:deleteMessage(2715)">X</a>] &lt;<a href="member.php?u=48" target="blank">p33r</a>&gt;: amg<br /></span>'; lastshoutid = 2715; theTime = '[<span class="time">12:08</span>] ';

You can see our little mashup in action here if you need to test anything: http://forum.japani.no/kanshi_chat.php and the main chatbox on http://forum.japani.no/chatbox.php

(Spoiler tags are used like this: [Spoiler="text on box"]Text under box[/spoiler] if you need to test anything.)
Yes, i realize i can turn off bbCode for the chatbox, but that kinda defeats the purpose of it. It's one of the cool advantages the chatbox has over other forms of live-chat.

Edit: Further testing shows that [quote]+tags allso do the same thing, i guess it dosnt like BBcode. wich is a shame.

[barny11]

I know this has been asked before by somebody else but cant find any answer to it.

When you collapse chat and then refresh the page or change pages the chat pops back open.

Is there a way to stop that ?

Great hack btw

[powerful_rogue]

Hi all

Great mod, the members love it!

where would I need to look to edit the text "You don't have permission to see the Chatbox."

Thanks
Dave

[Dream]

You need to edit chatbox.php