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.

[Roms]

We've not had any major errors on the developemnt site or we would not have released it

Yeah, that's why there are 10 pages worth of people not being able to install and or use the hack. :b

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by infantrymen

Yeah, that's why there are 10 pages worth of people not being able to install and or use the hack. :b

We installed it on our developemnt forums, on fresh forums (with no errors) and on matthews live forum with no issues.

What errors were you having?

[Megareus Rex]

An error I'm having (and I've told Matthew about it too), is that when I try to run the install/hack_install.php script, all I get is a blank white screen. I've triple-checked everything, and it happens every time.

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Megareus Rex

An error I'm having (and I've told Matthew about it too), is that when I try to run the install/hack_install.php script, all I get is a blank white screen. I've triple-checked everything, and it happens every time.

Do you get a white page onj any other scripts? Have you tried reuploading the files again (some ftp programs can be rather naughty at times )

btw nice avatar

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by infantrymen

Yeah, that's why there are 10 pages worth of people not being able to install and or use the hack. :b

We have 127 pages on uCS release thread, im sure there are TONS of people who had issues installing, mostly due to user error a very small percentage of which are actually the installers issue.

the installer works fine on linux and windows on php 4.3.8 we don't know why people are getting specific errors but we are working on fixing them.

[Harley D]

Originally Posted by Harley D

In my ADMINCP, I do not see and SHOUTBOX drop down menu on the left side, I have found in ADMIN PERMISSIONS that there is a blank with a yes/no check box.

I have installed and uninstalled BVShoutbox FULL about 50 times in the past 2 weeks and failed to get it to work. I HAVE however managed to get yours to work, its just the ADMINPC permissions are missing. Thanks for such an easy to install hack and for actually giving support, unlike the last hack i mentioned.

I am running VB 3.0.1 is this the cause? or should I uninstall and reinstall the tables?

Thanks again.

O.K. Let me ask this...
where is the call made to settings.php?

[hawkin]

Upgrade from TWTCommish Shoutbox hack.

I have sucessfully installed and got the shouts transferred to the new Hack, but the last step (?do=update) takes forever and URL Redirect timeout after a long period. I guess the reason is cause we have alot of shouts, and that the update procedure just takes too long time.
Is there any possible to work this out?
I'm not sure what the update procedure does.
Only thing I have figured out is it updates the username fields from the userid in the table.

[Harley D]

Originally Posted by Link14716

The uninstall queries: in SQL format for version 1.04. Run these queries in phpMyAdmin:

[sql]ALTER TABLE language DROP phrasegroup_shoutbox;

DELETE FROM phrasetype WHERE phrasetypeid=716;

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS shoutbox_posts;

ALTER TABLE usergroup
DROP `shoutboxpermissions`,
DROP `shouthierarchy`,
DROP `shoutmaxdaily`;

ALTER TABLE user
DROP `shouts`,
DROP `shoutbanned`;
[/sql]

Now re-install.

Tried to uninstall so I could reinstall in attempt to get permissions to show up in adminpc.
did not uninstall properly, errored out, so I ran the above queries in phpMyAdmin. Undid all the file changes and then tried to reinstall.
But the installer is still showing that I have shoutbox 1.04 currently installed and will not reinstall?
Please help

Thanks in advance

[Magicmule]

How can i Delete Shouts ? Is there an Option to do this `?

Sorry for my English :nervous:

[Harley D]

All I want to do is UNINSTALL all the TABLES form MYSQL!
So I can reinstall the hack.
There has to be something left somewhere in the tables, I removed all file edits and also I've tried to delete the tables as shown on page 5 and still the install program see's that I have it installed and won't let me reinstall.

any suggestions.

EDIT] I found in the install php file, that it looks to the table "his_installed" If I'm correct, it this the little sucker thats keeping me from reinstalling? and is thid safe to delete?

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