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

[edwardandtubbs1]

I kepted getting an error. but I read the thread and sorted by my self.

great hack.

[a43079]

sorry i loaded the hack and this is the error i am getting

Warning: unexpected error in date() in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\forums\admin\functions.php on line 1599

Please Help

[Tony DiMera]

This is really cool.

[Mathiau]

Hey all

I am not using vb portal or anything, but i was curious how exactly i can put the shoutbox down the right or left side of my forum as i have my forums Main Table Width @ 50% so i have room to do that..

all help is appreciated.

[X-Fan]

Just a quick question - is it possible to limit the number of characters per shout?

Some of my users have been posting shouts that are more like mini-novels, and its throwing my entire front page out of whack!

[Overgrow]

A quick improvement to the shoutbox_postshout template:

This allows you to limit the characters posted by checking the form onsubmit. Javascript taken from here because I'm lazy. Replace the shotubox_postshout template with:

<script Language="JavaScript">
<!-- 
function Length_TextField_Validator()
{
if ((vbform.message.value.length < 3) || (vbform.message.value.length > 500))
{
mesg = "You have entered " + vbform.message.value.length + " character"
if (vbform.message.value.length != 1) {
mesg = mesg + "s"
}
mesg = mesg + ".\nValid entries are between 3 and 500 characters.\n"
alert(mesg);
vbform.message.focus();
return (false);
}
return (true);
}
-->
</script>

<table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="0"  width="100%">
  <form action="/edge/shoutbox.php" method="post" name="vbform" onsubmit="return Length_TextField_Validator()">
  <input type="hidden" name="type" value="shout">
  
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#006633" width="100%"><normalfont color="#FFCC00"><b>Send A Message</b></normalfont></td>
  </tr>
</table>

<table cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" border="0"  width="100%">
  <tr bgcolor="#DFDFDF">
    <td width="100%"><normalfont><b>Message:</b></normalfont> &nbsp; <smallfont><b>[ 
<a href="$bburl/misc.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=showsmilies" class="small" target="_blank">Smilies</a> - 
<a href="$bburl/misc.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=bbcode" class="small" target="_blank">vB Code</a> ]</b></smallfont>
    <br/><textarea name="message" rows="10" cols="60" class="bginput" wrap></textarea>
    <br/>$smiliebits</td>
  </tr>

  <tr bgcolor="#DFDFDF">
    <td width="100%"><input type="submit" name="comment_submit" value="Shout Now!" class="bginput" accesskey="s"></td>
  </tr>
  
  </form>
</table>

Thanks to TWT for a great piece of work!

[X-Fan]

Thanks OG!

[stangpower]

This is working great on my site, but I was wondering if it would be possible to add a "Who is chatting" I want to use this as a chat for my site.

Thanks!

Ian

[Sweet Cheeks]

Hey this is an awesome hack :smoke: Thanks for your hard work on this one my members love it.

I have one ???, is there a way that I can make the shoutbox invisible or disable it for a specified user group? Our 'trolls' like to use it to post garbage.

thanks for your help

[Sweet Cheeks]

OOps aranoid: Guess I should have read a little further, I found it