Chat Modifications - Dream's Chatbox

This adds a Chatbox in your forum home page.

Here's how it works: every 5 minutes the chatbox asks the server if there are new messages. You can change this 5 minutes to any number of seconds you want, but the lower you go the more server resources the chatbox uses.

Features:
- AJAX
- Pages
- Change refresh rate
- Hide chatbox content from chosen usergroups
- Set usergroups that can't send messages
- Set moderator usergroups that can delete messages
- Can disable auto refresh for guests
- Prune messages by user ID, user name, days old or all messages
- Enable smilies, bbcode and/or [ img ]
- Automatic URL parsing
- Option for users to delete own messages
- Smilies popup with all smilies you can use
- Who's Online Support
- User names uses usergroup colors
- Ban Users
- /me code
- Message colors
- and more

This mod is final, no new features will be added.

[kronnos]

Currently upgraded to 3.8.1, but autorefresh not working and sometimes even when i press manually refresh it doesnt work. Would be great to see a 3.8 version avaliable.

After more testing, it seems that refresh button does not work in IE and does not autorefresh.

[Dream]

im using it on 3.8 with no problems

[kronnos]

Originally Posted by Dream

im using it on 3.8 with no problems

Yeh, its seems to work with firefox with no problem for me, but when I try to open it in IE and wait for the refresh, it shows the refresh button flick a little every 30 sec(my set time) but it doesn't refresh. Also, im not even able to refresh via clicking the refresh button manually. Did you try it in IE? Also, if it's an error on my part, what could it be? Could it be because of the old database I used from 3.6 version? Should I have completely uninstalled the product without installing the product on top with overwrite on?

Thank!

[Dream]

it's working on IE here... did you make any changes to it? try re uploading the chatbox.php file to your forum.

using the old database has no problems with it. are you using vba?

[kronnos]

Nop, not using vba just made some changes to the actual chat box.

instead of

PHP Code:

<!-- Chatbox -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
    <thead>
    <tr>
        <td class="tcat"><a style="float:right" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_chatbox')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_chatbox" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_chatbox].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="javascript:openChatbox()">$vbphrase[chatbox_chatbox]</a></td>
    </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_chatbox" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_chatbox]">
    <tr>
        <td class="alt1" width="100%" colspan="2"><div class="smallfont" align="center"><iframe src="chatbox.php?nofocus=1" width="100%"$chatboxheight style="border: 0px" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td>
    </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>
<br />
<!-- / Chatbox --> 


I have

PHP Code:

<!-- Chatbox -->
<tbody>
    <tr>
        <td class="thead" colspan="2">
            <a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_chatbox')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_chatbox" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_chatbox].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
            <a href="javascript:openBlasterChat()">$vbphrase[chatbox_chatbox]</a>
        </td>
    </tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_chatbox" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_chatbox]">
    <tr>
        <td class="alt1" width="100%" colspan="2"><div class="smallfont" align="center"><iframe src="chatbox.php?nofocus=1" width="100%"$chatboxheight style="border: 0px" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td>
    </tr>
</tbody>
<!-- / Chatbox --> 


[Dream]

you just changed the javascript function name? that would be ok... did you try replacing the chatbox.php? are you using the latest version?

[kronnos]

yeh i think I did but dont really remember how I did that, since it was more then a year ago and I spent a lot of time playing with it to make it look right. Wait..could that be why it might not be working, I changed the function name on the other server where the original site is right now, but all i did was copy the above code from old template into knew one. Should I have copied over something else where I changed the function name or it was saved in the database?

Anyway, I uploaded all the latest files including chatbox.php and when going to IE, it refreshed 2 times(after 30 sec interval) nicely and then it just doesnt anymore... When I manually try to click refresh, the button just blinks and nothing happenes.

[Dream]

if it blinks it should have gotten the new messages from the server, if there are no new messages everything stays the same.

[kronnos]

I know there are new messages because I create them in the firefox version of the site, basically I chat with myselv through firefox and IE. Anyway, its a strange blink because teh normal blink takes atleast a second or 2 to blink back to normal state as its thinking, this blink is instant as though its not thinking anything at all.

[Dream]

are you logged on IE? maybe refresh is disabled for guests.