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

[Erwin]

Okay, I went ahead and figured out how to limit the number of smilies in each shout to 5.

In shoutbox.php, find:

PHP Code:


  if ($type == 'shout' && $comment_submit && trim($message) != '' && $bbuserinfo[userid] > 0) { 


Directly underneath, add:

PHP Code:


  $parsey  = bbcodeparse($message, 0, 1, 1);
  if (countchar($parsey,"<img")>5) {
        eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_toomanyimages")."\");");
        exit;
        } 


Change the number 5 to any number you want for your shoutbox. It works well!

[Schorsch]

Danke Erwin funktioniert wunderbar

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Thanks Erwin works fine

cu
Schorsch

[Heineken77]

Can I ask a huge favour?

I am attatching a picture of what my forum index looks with this post...see below

Now what I want to do:

1 - get the heading you see above the shoutbox: Forum/Posts/Threads/Last Post/Moderator to be moved right above and stick to the top of the first category of my forum.

2 - Have the shoutbox section ((that would be The Shoutbox - Latest Shout bar ... and the bar below it that has the poster's name and shout in it)) to stick to the bottom of the Private Messages bar you see in the attatched screenshot. And then leave a space between it before the Forum/Posts/Threads heading begins.

3 - I would also love to have The Shoutbox bar look the same as the Private Messages and Important Announcement Categories look on my forum. Rather than having the background Black and the writing Green

Is there anyone who could help me on this one please?

[Kars10]

Hello heineken. I think you did not exactly what the manual says.
Normaly it would look like the PM-Bar.
In which template did you place "$the_shoutbox" ?
This must be addet to forumhome-template..directly after $pminfo
Hope that fixed youre Problem...

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[Kars10]

Hello Guys
@ Post 80, the same Problem to me.
I need also the Username with the *.
Please help me!!

[NexDog]

The hack rocks.....

Bit of a basic question, but how do I change the colour of the bar the shoutbox is on, on the index page. It seems to have taken the wrong variable. If you look on our forum, the shoutbox is set on dark blue, would be better if it was purple like the forum categories......

[TWTCommish]

Actually, it's not the "wrong" variable -- it's designed to take on the table head color, rather than the category color. If you want to change that, though, find all instances of this...

{ tableheadbgcolor }

in your forumhome_shoutbox template...and replace them with this...

{ categorybackcolor }

...then, replace the instances of this...

{ tableheadtextcolor }

...with this...

{ categoryfontcolor }

Of course, remove the spaces.

[Kars10]

@ Twt, why you answer not to my questions??
I ask something...nothing happends.
Someone else asks and get the answer from you.....

[TWTCommish]

I don't know if you realize this, but I do this in my spare time, and there are about a DOZEN questions that are unanswered. I just get to them whenever I can...and I tend to address the easy ones off the top of my head right away.