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]

Yes, you would need some template conditionals and to edit the right template. I wouldn't know exactly which one to tell you though.

[CrashPush]

Bravo Dream! You're the man!

[Ekshi]

Hi, I've a problem with Tag Around Username option. I want usernames in a bold font and i wrote strong into the Tag Around Username option but nothing happened on the usernames in the chatbox. Can anyone help me?

[Dream]

"strong" or "b" should work. Aren't they already bold?

[Ekshi]

Originally Posted by Dream

"strong" or "b" should work. Aren't they already bold?

I've already try "b" and "strong" but it didn't work.

[Ba$im]

hello Dream
I have some question if u don’t mind
shall I enable ajax on my forum before? cuz I use arabic charset and it have many problem as u know with ajax

how load it will eat?

thanks

[Dream]

Yes, although I think this mod doesn't work in arabic forums.

[Infante]

I just tried to install this. And this is what I got

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

Apache/1.3.37 Server at forum.realcavsfans.net Port 80

[Ekshi]

Originally Posted by Ekshi

Hi, I've a problem with Tag Around Username option. I want usernames in a bold font and i wrote strong into the Tag Around Username option but nothing happened on the usernames in the chatbox. Can anyone help me?

Are there anyone have the same problem?

[l3asturd]

Installed yours because it was easy to understand. You also gave an easy option for vbadvanced users. It looks great and was in use minutes after being installed!

MOTM!

http://www.disctribution.com/forums/