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.

[LilSniper]

Hi, this is awesome, but can I make it increase our forum's total post count?

Thanks!

[Sgt Pepper]

lilsniper it wont work as its not apart of the actual post system.Although u cud edit some stuff

[JeTBoy]

Installed, and it's working. :up:

Though, there is no smilie box nor the setting to change font color and size.

Also, I only have one option in the AdminCP Chatbox menu: "Delete Messages". No other options.

What's wrong?

[JeTBoy]

It's fine after all.

Figured it out. Other options are accessed under vBulletin Options > Chatbox Options menu.

[Darthvader2007]

I have problems with the option Auto Parse URLs?
The option Allow BBCode? is also on.
When i put some link adres in the chatbox then the autom. Parse works fine.
But after 1 a 2 minutes you can not click on this link anymore.
The chatbox put also the tag [url] ..[ /url] before and after this link so you will see this [url]Http://some-name.nl[/ url] and the link are not clickable anymore ??
Can i do something that this will work fine ??

[Joshva]

Fantastic mod. Well done. Very well done.

How do i increase the vertical width of the vbadvanced chatbox?

[Joshva]

No need for a response. I edited the template to set the height

[Joshva]

Hi,

Tag Around Username does not work for me. I have tried both b and strong. I can view the html and I can see that it is not being applied.

[lord1700]

thanks dream....i've installed it in my forum...keep that great work!

[Dream]

Originally Posted by Joshva

Hi,

Tag Around Username does not work for me. I have tried both b and strong. I can view the html and I can see that it is not being applied.

hello,

sorry it seems to be a problem with that option. I'm not developing this mod anymore, but it can be easily changed in chatbox.php.