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

[Oldfart]

So there's no fix for the incorrect timestamp on shout messages?

Oh well its a great hack, thank you very much for putting your time and effort into this I appreciate it.

DOH!!! never mind the timestamp works perfectly. I had my time offset incorrectly set.

Thanks again

[TWTCommish]

Open your shoutbox.php file and replace this...

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

...with this...

$time_posted = vbdate('n-j-y, g:i:s a', $timestamp - $timeoffset);

That should do it. I think. I hope.

[Oldfart]

Sorry I edited my last post to let you know I made a mistake.

I didn't have my time offset correctly set in the forum.

Sorries

[Oldfart]

Oh one last thing.
Is it possiable to make a button link for the shoutbox on my forum mainpage like the foum buttons at the top of the forum screen.

If so which template of .php file would I edit

[Oldfart]

Ok I tried to put the link on the bottom of my forum main page like you have it on your forum. But it doesn't show up at all on my forum.

I also tried to locate the plain text hack for it in the install_shoutbox.txt and all i found was the forumjump hack. Where can I locate the link hack please?

[Enjoy Marcus]

Originally posted by TWTCommish
Sure. In your forumdisplay.php file, replace this:

PHP Code:

eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('forumdisplay')."\");"); 


...with this...

PHP Code:

$shout             = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT u.username, s.userid, s.shout_text, s.timestamp FROM user u, shoutbox s WHERE u.userid = s.userid ORDER BY s.timestamp DESC LIMIT 1");
$shout[timestamp]  = vbdate('n-j-y, g:i:s a', $shout[timestamp]);
$shout[shout_text] = bbcodeparse($shout[shout_text]);

eval("\$the_shoutbox .= \"".gettemplate("forumhome_shoutbox")."\";");
eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('forumdisplay')."\");"); 


Whatcha got in mind, out of curiousity? I'd be interested to see where you put it. You'd probably want to change the HTML in the forumhome_shoutbox template, however...it's designed specifically for the mainpage, what with the colspan and all.

hi, i have done this but it still doesn't show up on my main forum page...?

[TWTCommish]

Did you add the forumhome_shoutbox template, and the $the_shoutbox variable to the forumhome template?

[Enjoy Marcus]

ahh that was the problem, i never added the forumhome_shoutbox, thanks alot dude. really nice hack btw

[Enjoy Marcus]

argghhh, i got the hack working great on my test board, but on my main board the smilies don't wanna work, help! i also tried changing the code like you suggested to Jeremy W

[Wildthinks]

On my Opera works fine, but when I use mozilla or IE (6.x) ... after click "shout now" I get a Dowenloadbox for Shoutbox.php and in mozilla I see cryptical text...
any hints, whats wrong?

try it here: http://swishzone.net/vb/shoutbox.php