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VSa - ChatBox (AJAX) · **Released**: 02-07-2010

Info:
Powerful AJAX-based ChatBox for vBulletin.

Main Features:
-One step installation (no file uploads, no manual template modifications required)
-Put ChatBox on any forum page by setting script name and adding variable to desired template
-"ChatBox Full" (always available on separate page)
-"Messages Archive" (available on separate page, with options to edit/delete messages)
-"ChatBox Search"
-Option to block usergroups from viewing ChatBox
-Option to delete messages older than x hours automatically
-"ChatBox Statistics" (new messages since last visit, messages in last x hours, total messages, top x chatters,...)
-View users active in ChatBox (available in CBFull and Archive)
-Text formatting options (color, weight, style, decoration,...)
-Advanced Smiliebox
-Smiliebox options: total smilies available, smilies per row, smilie clipping, disable smilies...
-A lot of customizable stuff, including: set new/old status icons, time/date format, box height, message order, auto-refresh intervals,...
-One-click actions: View all messages posted by user X, Delete all messages posted by user x, Ban/unban user from ChatBox, View last message posted by user X, View your last message, View first unread message
-"/me" action (used when you want to refer to yourself in the "third person")
...and more...

View screenshots for more details.

Installation:
-Import XML file (as product): AdminCP > Plugin System > Manage Products > [Add/Import Product]
-OPTIONAL: Download attached images and extract them to images/editor (contains smilies/remove format icons)

To add to desired template (example FORUMHOME):
1. Add 'index' to THIS_SCRIPT locations (Product options)
2. Add 'FORUMHOME' to template names (Product options)
3. Open 'FORUMHOME' template and put "{vb:raw vsachatbox}" to desired line (for example after '') -> Save

To set options:
Go to: AdminCP > vBulletin Options > VSa - ChatBox

Versions:
v1.0 - Sep 15. 2007.
-First version
v2.3 - Sep 22. 2008.
-Latest vB 3.x version
v3.0 - Feb 08. 2010.
-Rewritten for vB4
-Known bugs fixed, code optimized
v3.0.1 - Feb 09. 2010.
-Fixed: Wrong title alignment in box/archive tables
-Fixed: Wrong expand/collapse button alignment in Safari
-Fixed: Wrong 'Smilies' alignment
-Fixed: XHTML errors
-New Setting: List templates where "{vb:raw vsachatbox}" will be enabled
v3.0.2 - Feb 09. 2010.
-Fixed: PHP error on CMS on some configs
-Fixed: 'Smilies' alignment
-Fixed: Minor bugs in PHP/HTML
v3.1 - Feb 14. 2010.
-New: CB Log-in/Log-out
-New Option: Stop auto-refresh if user inactive for X minutes
-New Option: Disable custom colors completely
-New Option: Random smilies
-New Option: Align messages to the usernames
-New: Remove text formatting button
-New: 'Smilies' replaced by image, arrrow removed
-Fixed: Move focus to input field when smilie inserted
-Fixed: 'Expand' button not shown after refresh
-Fixed: Now first item in color list is used as default
-Settings reorganized
-Several style/functionality bugs fixed
v3.1.1 - Feb 14. 2010.
-Fixed: Small JS issue on log-out
-New Option: Logged-out by default
v3.1.2 - Feb 16. 2010.
-Fixed: Errors with PHP 5.3
-Fixed: CB table messed up in footer
-Fixed: Several style errors, including XHTML incompatibilities
-New: Auto-insert on forumhome location - Below Forums
-New: Option to reverse message order in CB Archive
v3.1.3 - Feb 19. 2010.
-Fixed: Color selector dimensions
-Fixed: Minor bugs
v3.1.4 - Feb 20. 2010.
-New: Color Select replaced by Color Menu (and it's sexy)
-Note: Above fixes issues with Safari for Mac
-Fixed: Issue with Default color if it's in RGB format
-Note: Above will not change already posted messages
-Fixed/improved: Several style details
-Note: You may die if your templates are not reverted after upgrade
v3.1.5 - Feb 20. 2010.
-Fixed: Chrome not showing Color menu
-Fixed: headinclude_bottom added to <head
v3.1.6 - Feb 24. 2010.
-Fixed: Several style/functionality issues
-New: Set groups NOT able to edit messages
v3.1.7 - Jan 21. 2012.
-Fixed: Status images
-Fixed: Smilies button
-Fixed: Menu items invisible until highlighted
-Fixed: Several style issues (background, menus, colors, smilies)
-Fixed: https links not parsed automatically
-New: Show ChatBox in selected forum only
-New option: Automatically disable auto-refresh if server load is higher than X
-New Option: Set usergroups able to prune ChatBox
-New: 'Prune ChatBox' option available in the Main ChatBox drop-down menu
-Improved: Product menus re-organized
-Minor bugs fixed, codes optimized

ariellio · #**1102** 05-17-2010, 04:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ozymandyus

You know that "apologies if this has been answered before" or "topic too long for me to read" may look good in a post, but for anyone who follows a topic, what we read is "I'm too lazy to do a proper search for what I want, help me out anyway"? Just a thought. Seeing waay too many posts in this forum lately where someone leads in that way, and I know for a fact that the answer is already here, if you bother to look.

I am generally pretty good at searching, but I still cannot find the answer I was looking for (which, I think, is also what the poster above me was asking)

How do you add the chatbox to top of the page when you hit "New Posts" without adding it to every page of your forum? Somehow I managed to get it set up that way before upgrading to vb 4.0, but I don't remember how I did it...

abqtj · #**1103** 05-17-2010, 05:28 PM

This is an AWESOME Add-on!

Best part about it, it just flat-out works well! Thanks!

Bansheebob · #**1104** 05-17-2010, 07:29 PM

I want to add a google link unit to the right of where it says "ChatBox"

How do I do this? Thanks.

lurch_cr · #**1105** 05-17-2010, 11:23 PM

Sorry, I did look.
What thru me was I had the location set as 'under forums', and not 'above footer'.

Cheers,
Lurch

oddball118 · #**1106** 05-17-2010, 11:31 PM

Did anybody have a problem with the shoutbox just displaying "Loading..." on the vba page? It works fine on every other page but this one.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ozymandyus

No, the only way I ever got it to work with the vB CMS was by basically shoehorning Valter's entire codebase for the chatbox into one widget (all credit to cory_booth there, thanks for the help, sir). This is however cumbersome, has problems with format and smilies, and of course you have to update it all by hand if the version changes. I was using it this way until the 4.0.3 vB release, which introduced so many CMS bugs that I got fed up with their interface and decided to look elsewhere. Here's what I did:

Install VSa - Chatbox if you haven't already
Download vbaCMS from http://www.vbadvanced.com/
Install vbaCMS
Disable vBulletin's built-in CMS, if you're using it (CP - Plugins & Products - Plugin Manager, uncheck everything under "Product : vBulletin CMS")
Create new vbaCMS module
CP - vBa CMPS - add a new module (type = template)
Title "Chatbox" (or whatever, doesn't matter)
Active - yes
Template to Include: adv_portal_vsa_chatbox
Style: whichever you're using
Template Content: {vb:raw vsachatbox}
Use Module Wrapper Template: no
Set your usergroup permissions to taste
Save your module
Edit chatbox settings (CP - Settings - Options - VSa - ChatBox)
Show ChatBox on pages: index,adv_index
Show ChatBox in templates: FORUMHOME,adv_portal
Save Chatbox settings
Activate module on vbaCMS portal
CP - vBa CMPS - Edit Pages - (whatever you've named your portal page)
Drag your module to where you want it to display in your page in the "Active Modules" section
Set your usergroup permissions to taste
Not related to Chatbox, but you might want to tick off the "Add Navbar Link" option to keep your navbar consistent
Save, take a deep breath, and enjoy!

Setting it up this way makes it active in your vbaCMS portal page and your forum home page. If you don't want it on the forum home page, take out the 'index' option for 'show on pages' in the chatbox settings.

obmob · #**1107** 05-18-2010, 01:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by princeedward

(Guten Tag Mein Freund!)Hi hope this help you to solve your problem....

Edit your language / (Make 'Locale' field blank): Go > ACP > Language & Phrases > Language Manager > Edit Settings > Date / Time Formatting > (Must All Blank)

Remove all '%' from time/date format settings: Go > ACP > vB Options VSa - ChatBox > Check all settings below

Date format (blank to disable): d-m

Time format: H:i

goodluck and best regards...

Gruss von Schleswig Holstein

:up:

This one helped, thanks!

Ozymandyus · #**1108** 05-18-2010, 03:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by oddball118

Did anybody have a problem with the shoutbox just displaying "Loading..." on the vba page? It works fine on every other page but this one.

Usually happens if you're calling the chatbox twice, although I don't know exactly how you have things set up. I had some conflicts with other addons, and ended up just tossing the widget and using the 'under navbar' pre-set in options. That placement looks pretty good in my vba page, so I left it that way. Good enough until either Valter fixes the functionality or a competing product implements it better.

oddball118 · #**1109** 05-18-2010, 03:35 AM

What is strange is that it was on a fresh install with just a couple of mods. Oh well I will fool around with disabling some mods and see what happens. Thanks for the reply.

AfterWorldForum · #**1110** 05-18-2010, 04:19 AM

Not sure if this has been asked before, but I just installed it on my vB4 test environment, and the chat did not grab the chat-records from the old 3.8.4 version.

Is this something that can be added automatically somehow? When I make my live upgrade, I'm bound to forget stuff like this.

Thanks

Peter

Firestar.chkn · #**1111** 05-18-2010, 07:39 AM

Hi,

I cannot find an answer to this question. Is there any way to change the default color from black to white?

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