vB Chatbox 1.2.4

What this hack does : Adds a box on top of your vB home page
where all members can chat/shout in an IRC like way, with all the
vB options added (smilies, vBcodes....)

I started this hack by modifying the shoutbox made by Doug
Tanner for phpnuke (i think).. And it went far far from his original
code. As far as i think he wouldn't recognize it .

I integrated it as far as i could with vB, and in the admin CP,
with every bit of it being possible to modify trough the admin
CP (prune, ban, censure...)...

SCREENSHOT

This hack has been tested and used by some people out
there in france .

1.2.4 changes :
Install problems with the mysql reserved words solved,
Uninstalling option added to the install script,
Possibility to automaticaly add the templates to the
templatesets you chose in the install script,
IE6 problem with divs solved,
timezoneoffset mod integrated,
text input limited to 255 characters.

1.2.3 changes :
security hole on the pruning of the admin part fixed.

1.2.2 changes :
templatesused var filled with all templates used by the
script in the shoutbox.php file and in the index.php file.
And chmod 777 made on the admin/shoutbox_config.php file
by the install script. Thanks to erwin

Name changed from shoutbox to chatbox, because some people
thought of this hack as related with TWT-commish's shoutbox...
no more excuses


Here is some sort of [high]FAQ[/high] from all the thread,
hope this helps, and prevents you from reading all that i just read :

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Erwin : limit of smilies a person can post in the shoutbox.
This is to prevent smilie spamming : HERE
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Erwin : Another tip for installers - instead of manually having to
ban users in the shoutbox, to automatically ban users who
you have already banned from the forums : HERE
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For the shoutbox to be in a popup : HERE
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To have 5 'shouts/chats' visible when the chatbox is reduced :
HERE
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SpeedStreet : This simply creates a link for people to click on so
that they can easily view the 'Who's Online' page without
having to dig for it : HERE
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ThoughtDiver: if you want the date format on the shout timestamps
to read Month/Day instead of Day/Month : HERE
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[scottct1]

That worked. (Yippie!) Great hack!

Thanks!

[aidler]

OK I can't create the field "replace" in the "shoutbox_swears" table. The MySQL Database tells me "replace is a reserved word that can't be used for database-, table-, or fieldnames."

Any suggestions what to do???

[SuB_ZeR0]

Is it possible to place the chatbox on other page besides the forum's index? I'm using vBindex as the frontpage and I was just wondering what do I need to do to place the chatbox there instead. Thanks.

[HAK]

guys is this hack finialized..I see lot of people still facing problem in installing this hack?

[Erwin]

There are no problems. This hack installed fine the first day it was released. All the other posts are just addons.

[HAK]

thanks Erwin for this fast response.. I tried to install it but I got this error after running the install script

Installation de la Shoutbox de svaliotti.

Warning: chmod failed: Operation not permitted in /home/XXXXX/public_html/forum/admin/shoutbox_install.php on line 62

There seems to have been a slight problem with the XXXX database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

and if add the tables using Phpmyadmin I got this:

Error
SQL-query :

ALTER TABLE user
ADD shoutbox TINYINT DEFAULT 1 not null

MySQL said:

Duplicate column name 'shoutbox'

so what is wrong?

[Erwin]

Duplicate name means the shoutbox column in the user table exists already. Don't worry about it. Just skip that query.

[aidler]

I realy don't want to appear impatient but if anyone would have a solution to the problem I posted about yesterday.

OK I can't create the field "replace" in the "shoutbox_swears" table. The MySQL Database tells me "replace is a reserved word that can't be used for database-, table-, or fieldnames."

[DJ FRESCO]

Please help..............


Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.2.6:

Invalid SQL: CREATE TABLE `shoutbox` (`id` INT(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `name` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL default '', `comment` TEXT NOT NULL, `date` VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL default '', PRIMARY KEY (`id`))
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near '`shoutbox` (`id` INT(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `name` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL d' at line 1

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Monday 02nd of September 2002 05:35:03 PM
Script: http://www.djfresco.com/forum/forum/...ll.php?etape=1
Referer: http://www.djfresco.com/forum/admin/...x_install.php?

[aidler]

Is the author of this hack on shore leave or is this again one of those hacks who after a while won't be supportet anymore (this time not even 10 days)? :disappointed: