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[AJAX] vBShout v2.0 · **Released**: 07-27-2005

[high]Staff Edit/Update[/high]

I have released an updated version of this hack (version 2.0.1), this version fixes some security issues with this hack. All version prior to this one allow users to insert html in their shouts, this can cause problems with them using html that breaks the site layout or malicious javascript. Download the new zip file (vBshout_fixed.zip) and upload the new vbshout.php file to patch/upgrade. If you want to manual instructions they are in the zip file, in the file bugfixes.txt

Second Staff update

I've uploaded a new version of this hack, dubbed '2.0.2'. This one should fix the html injection issues without breaking special characters. To upgrade, download the new zip file and upload the new vbshout.php file.

Please note that this only fixes the html injection issues. I do not use this hack on my own forum (although I've tested this on a client's board) so I will not be fixing the server load issues. I suggest you do not install this hack if you can't deal with the extra server load, as it's rather intensive.

- Brad

[high]End staff edit[/high]

Well, been a while since I've been to vb.org and released anything, thought i'd break the trend and whip up something quick while I have a little spare time.

A shoutbox as you would assume, a very simple one to start off with, but does include AJAX Technology, which pushes the shoutbox 1 step closer to live, messages from other people will appear with no refreshing, and so will yours that you post

A preview is below, i'd estimate a 50 second installation max

Primary Features:
- AJAX Technology (no refreshing)
- Administration control an display element options
- Fast format editor

Change Log::

- v1.1:
WOL (Who's Online) Correction

- v1.2:
New Posting Featurs (Bold/Italic/Underline/Colour/Font)
Admin Controls

- Change location/position of shoutbox
- Change number of shouts displayed
- Switch vbcode/similes on/off

- v1.3
Firefox javascript issue fixed
New Admin Controls

- Command Activation
- Swtch extra format options on/off
- Change position of editor (above/below messages)

New Commands

- /prune (Clears the shoutbox completely)
- /prune [username] (Clears all shouts posted by specified user)

- v1.4
Usergroup HTML Markup For Usernames
Clear Editor Button
Emoticons Pop Up Menu
Time display configurated to vBulletin settings
Username Links To Profile
New Admin Conrols

New vBShout Position (Directly Above Forums)
Banned Users
Banned Usergroups
Banned Permissions
Smilie Pop-Up Box Height
Smilie Pop-Up Box Width

New Commands

"/me" - Action message (all users are able to use this command)
/pruneshout [shout] - Deletes a single shout

- v1.5
Improved Smilies Display
XHTML 1.0 Transitional Valid (couple of errors fixed)
New Admin Options

Shoutbox Height
Smilies To Show
Shout Messages Order
Banned Permissions (fixed)

- v1.6
Bug Fixes:

- Unable to delete shouts that used /me command fixed
- Shouts being displayed from bottom-upwards only showed first 20 shouts

Automatically parses URL's

- v2.0
New Archive

- Displays shouts and pages
- Stats and top 10 shouters
- AJAX Edit/Delete (staff can edit/delete all shouts)

Enjoy,

- Zero Tolerance

desiforums · #**1702** 05-03-2006, 11:32 PM

can you help me...can you tell me how to change the height of the shoutbox...

vbreal · #**1703** 05-03-2006, 11:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by desiforums

can you help me...can you tell me how to change the height of the shoutbox...

go to vbulletin options and looke for the vbshout option. u can change it in there

desiforums · #**1704** 05-03-2006, 11:37 PM

thanks for the quick reply i found it...

tvsf · #**1705** 05-04-2006, 06:24 PM

I often get these "quest" in the shoutbox. What's wrong and how do I go about fixing it?

Dj megas · #**1706** 05-05-2006, 11:50 AM

Hi!!!
In The shout box is eny way to make it so the only ppl to write there to be the mods but the members to see what we write only?

vbreal · #**1707** 05-06-2006, 01:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dj megas

Hi!!!
In The shout box is eny way to make it so the only ppl to write there to be the mods but the members to see what we write only?

you an exclude usergroups. go to vbulletin options the look for vbshout and just put the number of the usergroups u wanted excluded seperated by commas

thalamus · #**1708** 05-06-2006, 06:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tvsf

I often get these "quest" in the shoutbox. What's wrong and how do I go about fixing it?

I was having the exact same problem, but it seems that by changing the 'shout' option to TYPE_STR (from TYPE_NOHTML) it's working.

Now, does that cause a security issue and, if so, can anyone tell me please where can I possibly find the antidote in the code base??

DjTaz · #**1709** 05-06-2006, 08:07 PM

Hey Guys i have two things to say here :

First if you have an issue with this hack , it has more than likely been answered already (the quote issue, the server load issue, the height , the commands to clear the shouts,auto pruning shouts .... pretty much everything ) so PLEASE read the thread and look for it. I went through almost all of the posts on this thread - and about 50% of them are people asking the same questions over and over.

Secondly - something that hasnt been answered is this :
How to put the shoutbox on the Arcade main page , and heres how you do it.

In your AdminCP - go to Plugin Manager- Add a plugin

Product : Vbulletin
Product Hook Location : arcade_main_complete
Title : VbShout Arcade
Plugin PHP Code :

Code:

$Used    = 0;
$UsedArr = array();
$smilies = $db->query_read("
		SELECT smilieid, smilietext, smiliepath, smilie.title,
		imagecategory.title AS category
		FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "smilie AS smilie
		LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "imagecategory AS imagecategory USING(imagecategoryid)
		ORDER BY imagecategory.displayorder, smilie.displayorder
	");
$Smilie_Build  = '';
$Total_Smilies = $db->num_rows($smilies);

if ($Total_Smilies > 0)
{
	while ($emo = $db->fetch_array($smilies))
	{
		if ($vbulletin->options['shout_smilies_show'] > 0)
		{ 
			$Smilie_Cache[] = $emo;
		}
		else
		{
			$Smilie_Build .= '<a href="#" onclick="return sb_Smilie(\''.$emo['smilietext'].'\')"><img src="'.$emo['smiliepath'].'" alt="'.$emo['title'].'" border="0" /></a> ';
		}
	}

	if ($vbulletin->options['shout_smilies_show'] > $Total_Smilies)
	{
		$vbulletin->options['shout_smilies_show'] = $Total_Smilies;
	}

	if ($vbulletin->options['shout_smilies_show'] > 0)
	{
		while ($Used < $vbulletin->options['shout_smilies_show'])
		{
			$GetEmo = $Total_Smilies;
			$GetEmo = rand(0, $GetEmo);

			if (!in_array($GetEmo, $UsedArr) && $Smilie_Cache[$GetEmo])
			{
				$Used++;
				$GetEmo = $Smilie_Cache[$GetEmo];
				$Smilie_Build .= '<a href="#" onclick="return sb_Smilie(\''.$GetEmo['smilietext'].'\')"><img src="'.$GetEmo['smiliepath'].'" alt="'.$GetEmo['title'].'" border="0" /></a> ';
			}
		}
	}
}
else
{
	$Smilie_Build = 'No Emoticons Available';
}

$Options_DropDown         = array(); // Items included will be parsed to create drop down menus
$DropDowns                = array(); // Completed constructed drop down menus

$Options_DropDown['font_selector']    = array('Default', 'Arial', 'Arial Black', 'Arial Narrow', 'Book Antiqua', 'Century Gothic', 'Comic Sans MS', 'Courier New', 'Fixedsys', 'Franklin Gothic Medium', 'Garamond', 'Georgia', 'Impact', 'Lucida Console', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Microsoft Sans Serif', 'Palatino Linotype', 'System', 'Tahoma', 'Times New Roman', 'Trebuchet MS', 'Verdana');
$Options_DropDown['color_selector']   = array();
$Options_DropDown['color_selector'][] = 'Default';

$hex   = array();
$hex[] = '0';
$hex[] = '3';
$hex[] = '6';
$hex[] = '9';
$hex[] = 'C';
$hex[] = 'F';

for ($a = 0; $a < 6; $a++)
{
	for ($b = 0; $b < 6; $b++)
	{
		for ($c = 0; $c < 6; $c++)
		{
			$Options_DropDown['color_selector'][] = '#' . $hex[$a].$hex[$a].$hex[$b].$hex[$b].$hex[$c].$hex[$c];
		}
	}
}

if (is_array($Options_DropDown))
{
	foreach ($Options_DropDown as $Menu => $Options)
	{
		$DropDowns[$Menu] = '';
		if (is_array($Options))
		{
			foreach ($Options as $Selection)
			{
				if (preg_match("#^\#([a-z0-9]+)$#i", $Selection))
				{
					$Extra = ' style="color:'.$Selection.';"';
				}
				else
				{
					$Extra = '';
				}

				if ($Selection == 'Default')
				{
					$Text = (($Menu == 'color_selector') ? 'Color' : 'Font Face') . ' [Default]';
				}
				else
				{
					$Text = $Selection;
				}

				$DropDowns[$Menu] .= '<option value="'.$Selection.'"'.$Extra.'>'.$Text.'</option>' . "\n";
			}
		}
	}
}

function isBanned($user)
{
	return (isBanned_Check($user['userid'], 'shout_banned_users') || isBanned_Check($user['usergroupid'], 'shout_banned_usergroups'));	
}

function isBanned_Check($bash, $against)
{
	global $vbulletin;
	return in_array($bash, iif($vbulletin->options[$against], explode(',', $vbulletin->options[$against]), array()));
}

if ($vbulletin->options['shout_banned_perms'] == 2 && isBanned($vbulletin->userinfo))
{
	$Shoutox = '';
}
else
{
	eval('$Shoutbox = "' . fetch_template('forumhome_vbshout') . '";');
}

	switch ($vbulletin->options['shout_position'])
	{
		case 1:
			$Position = '<!-- what\'s going on box -->';
		break;

		case 2:
			$Position = '<!-- end what\'s going on box -->';
		break;

		case 4:
			$Position = '<!-- main -->';
		break;

		default:
			$Position = '$navbar';
		break;
	}



$Position = '<--shoutbox-->'; 
$vbulletin->templatecache['arcade_main'] = str_replace($Position, ' $Shoutbox', $vbulletin->templatecache['arcade_main']);

Save and ACTIVATE the plugin.

The go to the arcade_main template and put the in this code where you want the shoutbox to be placed :

Code:

<--shoutbox-->

I put mine just under $navbar for anyone who wants it there (its pretty neat there)

If you want to put this on any other page (like say the WHOSONLINE page) - do another plugin up and change the settings at the very end of the code from :

Code:

 
$vbulletin->templatecache['arcade_main'] = str_replace($Position, ' $Shoutbox', $vbulletin->templatecache['arcade_main']);

to

Code:

$vbulletin->templatecache['WHOSONLINE'] = str_replace($Position, ' $Shoutbox', $vbulletin->templatecache['WHOSONLINE']);

and place the

Code:

<--shoutbox-->

into the WHOSONLINE template where you want it.

Hope that helps a few people out with this.

vbreal · #**1710** 05-07-2006, 03:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DjTaz

Secondly - something that hasnt been answered is this :
How to put the shoutbox on the Arcade main page , and heres how you do it.

.

i haven't seen an answer to my question

i asked if there was a way to exculde vbshout from certain styles.

arcadian_girl · #**1711** 05-07-2006, 04:51 PM

oh wow...this is awesome, completely. and even more awesome-no file or template edits!

just upload a file and import a product and you're done. i'm loving it and so are my members. now, fingers crossed that i don't have problems with my host cos of the AJAX refresh thing...

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