vB Shoutbox 1.0

Well, people wanted it, so here it is: a vB-integrated Shoutbox. It's a little different than the one they used to have on this site, however. The moderation functions are VERY basic...but they'll be improved for 2.0, most likely, if there's any interest.

A short breakdown:

• It's a chatroom-esque page that everyone can use.
• Shouts that day, shouts in last 24 hours, shouts by YOU, and total shouts, are all tracked.
• Leaderboard (top shouters) is tracked.
• Clickable smilies automatically added below the add shout box.
• "delete" link shown on all shouts if you're an admin or a moderator (usergroupids 5, 6, and 7 by default).
• bbCode parsing included.

Attached is an archive containing all the files you'll need for the basic installation, AND for the optional features. NOTE: the vBHacker compatible file included within does NOT constitute a full installation. You'll still need to upload the shoutbox.php file to your main forums directory.

Enjoy. Here's a live demo: http://www.movieforums.net/shoutbox.php

[LavaNoX]

How do I make it so that my forum takes up 75% of the space, on the left, and the shoutbox takes up the rest of the space, on the right?

[Mr L]

...is it possible to add a function to enable uses only to post once every 60 seconds?

Otherwise, this has made a huge impact on my board in a positive way! Thank you!

[firewars]

Weird.
When shouting it goes to the webservers root and doesn't stay in the forums root
Any solutions?

[TWTCommish]

firewars: in your "shoutbox_postshout" template, replace "shoutbox.php" in the form's action attribute with "$bburl/shoutbox.php" -- I think that ought to do it.

HLodder: use the attached shoutbox.php file to prevent users from shouting more than once every 60 seconds. It's just a primitive little thing I threw together, but it works...I think. All it does is ignore their shout if it's been less than 60 seconds. No error or anything...this is quick and dirty at it's best.

[Mr L]

Chris,

Thanks for this. Very much appricated and now in use!!!

Cheers.

Harvey.

[firewars]

TWTCommish:

Thanks, but before applying your fix I thought about it and then I was sure it should work as it's in the same directory, but:

There is a slash (/) before it which makes it use the directory above the $bburl-directory and thus using root.
Thanks for telling me where to look, though: it works like a charm.
Impressive hack

[firewars]

Does anyone know how to change the timeformat?
I'm not talking about $time_posted, I was able to change that.
I am talking about $timestamp which is used in the forumhome_shoutbox-template.
Any idea?

[TWTCommish]

It's simple... find this line in your index.php file:

PHP Code:

$shout[timestamp]  = vbdate('n-j-y, g:i:s a', $shout[timestamp]); 


Modify the first argument passed to the vbdate() function (the text inside the single quotation marks) to a different format using the same characters you'd use for PHP's date() function.

[Mr L]

Can I ask, are you planning to release a later version of this hack and if so, can you offer any insight on what may be included?

Thanks!!!

[TWTCommish]

Yeah, I am, but not for awhile yet. I've detailed potential features in earlier posts. I don't feel like diggin' 'em up just now, though. I'll get back to you later. (sorry, I'm lazy, I guess)