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

[Sadie Frost]

Originally posted by Mr_P
after i hit the submit button to post a shout i got the page not displayed all time so if i went back and refreshed the shout had been added but the url was wrong once it had been submitted so i found all instances of where the url was pointing to and changed them to my current dir as mine is not in a vbb folder and i think this threw it a bit.

I had the same problem. So I had to go through all the shoutbox templates and where the path was forums/blahblah.php, I changed it to just blahblah.php

[Okiewan]

The smilie issue has to do with an installed hack, wish I could remeber the name of it, but it's the one that modify's vbcode.js .... causing smilies to be inserted where the curser is, rather than the end of the post text.

I put the original version back in and the smilies work. It would be SWEET if the shoutbox could use the modifed file, inserting smilies is a LOT nicer with that hack.

[NexDog]

Be great to have a scoller for the shoutbox or at least show the last 3 shouts on index.php.......

[Odil]

My page is empty after I post a shout. It only shows the number of shouts for me which adds 27 shouts to each one I post, yet it doesn't show the shouts at all like it should. It only shows the newest shout on the main page.

What can be wrong here?

Odil

[Webmasta XT]

my lastest shout on ForumHome, doesn't display the smilies... it displays the smilies in the shoutbox.php but not on forumhome.. WHY? help..

[TWTCommish]

Open index.php. Replace this:

$shout[shout_text] = bbcodeparse($shout[shout_text]);

...with this...

$shout[shout_text] = bbcodeparse($shout[shout_text], X);

Replace "X" with a forumid number of one of your forums that allows vB Code parsing. That should do it.

[NexDog]

Hey TWT,

I definitely saw a forum that had your shoutbox with a scroller on the home page. How is it done? If that is a bit hectic, how to post the last 3 shouts instead of one???

[Webmasta XT]

thnx TWT, this hack rules!

[Googa]

Originally posted by RenzukenX
No that doesn't seem to work.
My shoutbox is located at http://www.coalitionforums.com/hyper...t/shoutbox.php
and whenever a shout is submitted it still tries to go back to the main directory www.coalitionforums.com

Just fixed this problem for myself.

Go into the template "shoutbox_postshout", and find:

  <form action="/shoutbox.php" method="post" name="vbform">

and replace it with:

  <form action="/shoutbox.php" method="post" name="vbform">

That'll do it nice and easy

[Erwin]

The 2 lines of codes in your post are the same. You meant to say to remove the "/" before the "shoutbox.php".