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.

[ahmed2000]

thanx alot

[Ziki]

Awsome mate.I am using vBshout though but this is great.I would nominate it for HOTM but I already nominated APM

[SgtTechHead]

I receive the following MySQL error during the Product Import:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.2:
Invalid SQL:
show tables like vb_'sl_shout';
MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'vb_'sl_shout'' at line 1
Error Number : 1064

MySQL Version: 4.0.27-standard-log

PHP Version: 4.4.4

[projectego]

Sounds awesome, I'll check this out ASAP. Cheers, Dream.

[Snake]

THanks!

[redlabour]

Shoutbox 2.1 uses less Performance then 2.0.

But this happens if everybody only looking at vb.org ....

http://www.vbhackers.com/f76/ajax-fl...ut-2-1-a-4536/

[Dream]

Originally Posted by Ziki

Awsome mate.I am using vBshout though but this is great.I would nominate it for HOTM but I already nominated APM

Thanks alot

I updated the code SgtTechHead, should solve your problem.

I wanna know why someone gave this 1 star.

Oh if you are using 0.6 don't upgrade with 0.7, uninstall and reinstall. I changed the product ID. You may have to manually remove the "chatboxlite_shouts" table from the database too, im not sure if the 0.6 uninstall code removes it. The 0.7 uninstall code does remove the shouts table, so be careful. The shouts table has been renamed from "chatboxlite_shouts" to "chatbox" in case you wanna know.

If you wanna modify it and share modifications be my guest.

[mktrilogy]

nominated as hack of the month installed

[SgtTechHead]

Originally Posted by Dream

I updated the code SgtTechHead, should solve your problem.

Thank you sir! I'll give it another go then.

EDIT: Well done, works great now