Shoutbox Hack 1.04b

11/09/04 - Version 1.04b. Just an installer upgrade, nothing more. Nothing to see here, move along.

10/22/04 - Version 1.04a released. This is not an upgrade from 1.04. If you already have 1.04 installed, don't worry about this. This release just updates the installer and fixes any errors in it. If you had problems installing it last time, this should work better. If you need support, posting it here may get it answered, though posting at the board at GeekyDesigns.com is prefered.

This is the same hack formerly released by Link14716.

08/30/04 4:19 PM EDT: Fixed a settings bug (I hope): see this post.

08/29/04: Shoutbox 1.04 is released, featuring a new installer system (using the Hack Installer System) and redone templates, as well as a few bug fixes. Enjoy.

Presenting: The Shoutbox Hack


Support posts made at GeekyDesigns.com have a higher priority than posts made in this thread, and is the prefered way of getting support.



There are way too many features to list, so I'll just let the screenshots do the talking.

Shoutbox credits

PHP Code:
Matthew Gordon
Templates:
Zachery Woods
- misc: Matthew Gordon
- Originally by TWTCommish, redone by Zachery for 1.04


If you feel your not able to install this yourself please feel free to drop me a pm and we can make arrangments

If you would like to donate to us please pm us and again we can make arragnments

Dont forget to click install!

Install Instructions:

NEW INSTALL/UPGRADE FROM 1.03 to Current
 
 1. Upload the contents of the 'upload' folder to your forums directory.
 2. Run http://www.yoursite.com/forums/install/hack_install.php
 3. Select "Shoutbox Hack" and then follow the instructions to install.
 4. Follow the directions in the readme files when it gets to that step, then finalize the install (by clicking the last link in the install).
 5. Enjoy your shoutbox!

Matrixgl did a template modification to make the shoutbit more like its vB2 counterpart and released it (tested on 1.03) here.

FOR THOSE WHO WANT SUPPORT, SPECIFY THIS INFORMATION OR BE IGNORED:

What is the exact error you recieve?
Where does the supposed error happen?
What vB version are you running?


Here are the old screenshots, new ones will be posted soon:
settings.gif (186.0 KB)
forumhome.gif (37.1 KB)
forumhome_iframe.gif (30.0 KB)
shoutbox_home.gif (96.1 KB)
shoutbox_home_guest.gif (84.8 KB)
user_settings.gif (85.5 KB)
usergroup_permissions.gif (67.8 KB)
shoutbox_home_textarea.gif (78.9 KB)




Enjoy.

[Vman]

Originally Posted by dsboyce8624

As I posted earlier, there is a cron hack to do it for you.

Search here and/or vba.com for shoutbox and you'll see one about "Auto Prune"

There will not be a cron job for this hack...I found this hack and its very very generic...it does not even us sql! You have to manually goto shout.txt and delete the contents to clear all shouts.....

[G0F0RBR0KE]

I just install this shoutbox, how can i make it like this and i'm running a 3.0.7 vbulletin

[G0F0RBR0KE]

*bump* no reply here. :disappointed: or is there another shoutbox for version 3.0.7

[zell_11]

hey i saw this one a different site and was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of the mod, or create it for me

[djjeffa]

My shout box use to work fine now I went to install anew style and it went black. any ideals how i could fix this?

[djjeffa]

Originally Posted by djjeffa

My shout box use to work fine now I went to install anew style and it went black. any ideals how i could fix this?

Bump!!!!!

[G0F0RBR0KE]

Does anyone want to help us with our problem???

[Kila_Bite]

Just a small thing. Shoutbox is installed and working well. Thanks for the good hack.

However there is one thing that annoys me, the 200 ok screen pops up when ever someone shouts in there. I was wandering if there was any way to get rid of this?

Much obliged,

Kila

[slank]

Originally Posted by dsboyce8624

There is a cron file somewhere, not sure if it's here or vBa that will prune shouts for you. Search for shoutbox and you'll find it, that's how I did.

I want to relate some info I found, the hard way. With newer versions of MySQL the queries for the install of this hack fail. I have attached a file to correct this. If you already ran the install and got to the failure, which says something like "Invalid Default Value '0'," you should comment out the first two queries before running it again. The settings and phrases will not give you problems. Replace the existing file in /install/hacks/shoutbox/14 or something similar.

This only solves the one problem, and I don't purport to know how to fix any others. But I did miss this info somewhere around post 500 in this ridiculously long thread. And I agree, most of these posts wouldn't be here if the people who wrote this fixed it and or it's instructions.

Hope it helps.

worked a treat...cheers for this cause i was stuck in mud on this one :P

[edeab220]

Anyone know why I'm getting this error?

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.7:

Invalid SQL: UPDATE user SET shouts=shouts+1 WHERE userid='3'
mysql error: Unknown column 'shouts' in 'field list'

mysql error number: 1054

I used the query Zachery gave me over at geekydesigns while installing, which was this:

CREATE TABLE shoutbox_posts (
`shoutid` BIGINT (255) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT, 
`text` TEXT, 
`userid` BIGINT (255) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0', 
`username` VARCHAR (255) DEFAULT '0', 
`ip` VARCHAR (25) DEFAULT '0', 
`time` BIGINT (20) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0', 
`edittime` BIGINT (20) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0', 
`edituser` VARCHAR (255) DEFAULT '0', 
`deleted` TINYINT(1) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0', 
PRIMARY KEY(`shoutid`))

I had to use it because my host upgraded to MySQL 4.1.1.

Can anyone figure it out? Thanks! Many of the people of my site want the shoutbox back...