Chat Modifications - Dream's Chatbox

This adds a simple Chatbox in your forum home page for your members to chat.

The Chatbox is like a thread, members leave small messages in it for others to see. Think of it as an off-topic thread that never ends. The Chatbox can also help keep chatting out of the threads.

This mod is light on the server, uses little server resources to work. The default refresh rate is set to 5 minutes. You can disable automatic refreshing entirely in the options.

What's the refresh rate? The chatbox updates the messages shown every given seconds, that's the refresh rate. It sends a request to the server asking for new messages every X seconds, that you choose in the options.

Warning: If you set your refresh rate to 10 seconds this mod stops being so server friendly. You can do it, but be sure your server can handle it.


Features:
- Ajax (no page refreshes)
- Pages
- Set refresh rate in seconds
- Hide Chatbox contents from certain user groups
- Set user groups that can't send messages but can view chatbox
- Moderator user groups that can delete messages
- Disable auto refresh for guests
- Prune messages by user ID, user name, days old or all
- Enable/disable smilies, bbcode and [ img ]
- Automatic URL parsing
- Users can delete their own messages
- Smilies popup with all smilies you can use in messages
- Who's Online Support
- Show message dates or not
- User names linked and colored with their user group colors
- Banned Users
- Hide refresh button
- /me code
- Optional message colors
- Bunch of options in the Admin Control Panel

Live Demos: (leave your live demo in this thread!)
http://www.fliz.ru/ (russian)
http://www.sustainabilityforum.com/forum
http://www.virtualorbit.com/
http://www.bowlandcentral.com/forum


VERSION HISTORY



This mod is now final. It has all the features I think a chatbox should have, so I won't be adding more features to it. Anyone has my permission to use this as a base for another mod. It will still be updated for bugs though.

[viper357]

do I not have to upload chatbox.php?

[viper357]

ah ha, ok, hang on

[Dream]

You have to upload it to your main forum folder (the same directory your forum.php is)

edit: ok cool

[viper357]

Perfect, thanks for the help, awesome mod, I have clicked Installed, thanks buddy

[Dream]

Cool glad you like it

[da420]

Originally Posted by Dream

I wish people that rate my mods with 1 star would state a reason :/

For some reason there are people that just sit and wait for new mods to be released just to rate them with a 1 star. Seems to happen to every newly released mod these days. Don't ask me why, but it's childish at any rate.

Anyways, this mod looks fantasticm, thanks.. Haven't had a look at it. I have vBShout 2.1 and am seriously considering installing this one after work today, or sometime when I get around to it this week.

[Xplorer4x4]

Originally Posted by instal.txt

-------Step Two

Upload chatbox_admin.php to your admincp folder.

Upload cpnav_chatbox.xml to your includes/xml folder.


-------Step Three

So we dont have to up chatbox.php? Might want to elaborate on that in the directions as to weather it is needed or not.

[rnmcd]

Originally Posted by Dream

Yes the ajax version has the option to set a refresh interval too. Ajax just means the whole page doesn't refresh, the javascript talks to the server and updates (refresh) the messages.

So in version 1 of Chatbox, the entire page would refresh (not just the chatbox)?

thanks.

[da420]

Installed, Uninstalled, and tried to Reinstall and am getting the below error.

MySQL Error  : Table 'chatbox' already exists

I was able to reinstall it by deleting the 'chatbox' table via phpmyadmin. But, just thought I'd let you know.

[Dream]

Originally Posted by Xplorer4x4

So we dont have to up chatbox.php? Might want to elaborate on that in the directions as to weather it is needed or not.

You need to upload chatbox.php to your main forum folder, that's missing from the instructions and will be there in the next update. (I replied this a few posts before yours)

Originally Posted by rnmcd

So in version 1 of Chatbox, the entire page would refresh (not just the chatbox)?

thanks.

Version 1.3 reloads the page, version 1.4 just adds the new messages without reloading the page.

Originally Posted by da420

Installed, Uninstalled, and tried to Reinstall and am getting the below error.

MySQL Error  : Table 'chatbox' already exists

I was able to reinstall it by deleting the 'chatbox' table via phpmyadmin. But, just thought I'd let you know.

The uninstall code is commented for some reason, it will be uncommented in the next update. You can see it commented out if you edit the Chatbox product. I think I was testing something and forgot to uncomment, sorry.