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

[Dean C]

look pretty nice...

[John]

- doesn't work at all, when I try to post a shout it tries to access webroot\shoutbox.php instead of webroot\forum\shoutbox.php - help?

[John]

And I have fixed it - in the template shoutbox_postshout, I changed:

PHP Code:

  <tr id="cat">
    <td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}" colspan="6"><a href="shoutbox.php?s=$session[sessionhash]" title="The Shoutbox"><normalfont color="{tableheadtextcolor}"><b>The Shoutbox - Latest Shout</normalfont></b></a></td>
  </tr> 


to

PHP Code:

<table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="0" {tableinnerextra} width="100%">
  <form action="$bburl/shoutbox.php" method="post" name="vbform">
  <input type="hidden" name="type" value="shout"> 


[afterlab]

Proud beta-tester for this.. Glad to see it's back in action.

[John]

Another small problem - when you click on a smilie, nothing happens - except for an error:

Line: 1
Char: 1
Error: Object Expected
Code: 0
URL: URLetc..\shoutbox.php?

[TWTCommish]

thanks for the hack again mate, great work!

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll change it tonight.

Interesting..I have a shoutbox I downloaded yet to try but its called Shoutbox V2 and it was made by Mewtwo, Crater Seraph, and TWTCommish. Is this the same one you have just released? If so, you forgot to include 2 others who helped make it ^_^

No one helped me make this hack. However, someone who I sent it to for beta testing purposes apparently made some change and is calling it "vB Shout Box 2.0" -- they sent me a copy and I'm basically trying to figure out what's going on. I certainly didn't know anything like this was going on and I'd rather not release a second version until I've added more.

I get a JS error when I try to use the clickable smilies: "'message' is null or not an object'

I'm trying to get to the bottom of this. Hopefully I'll manage to figure things out.

And I have fixed it

Thanks for your patience -- sorry about that!

I'll try to work out some of these bugs and re-upload tonight. Sorry for any inconvienence.

[John]

Originally posted by TWTCommish

Thanks for your patience -- sorry about that!

I'll try to work out some of these bugs and re-upload tonight. Sorry for any inconvienence.

Apart from the smilies not working, everything is great - a fine hack! - No need to say sorry for anything!

[Bald Bouncer]

smilies seem to work fine for me?

[John]

Originally posted by Bald Bouncer
smilies seem to work fine for me?

What version of vB are you running? I'm on 2.2.4, could this be the reason?

[FleaBag]

EDIT: I just realised someone had already said this. Oh well LOL.

I was a beta tester for this also, it works perfectly on my forums. I did tell TWT about the form error, rather than hard coding it you could use $bburl/shoutbox.php. But he frgot, though I'm not complaining because he never stops working!