vB Chatbox 1.2.4

What this hack does : Adds a box on top of your vB home page
where all members can chat/shout in an IRC like way, with all the
vB options added (smilies, vBcodes....)

I started this hack by modifying the shoutbox made by Doug
Tanner for phpnuke (i think).. And it went far far from his original
code. As far as i think he wouldn't recognize it .

I integrated it as far as i could with vB, and in the admin CP,
with every bit of it being possible to modify trough the admin
CP (prune, ban, censure...)...

SCREENSHOT

This hack has been tested and used by some people out
there in france .

1.2.4 changes :
Install problems with the mysql reserved words solved,
Uninstalling option added to the install script,
Possibility to automaticaly add the templates to the
templatesets you chose in the install script,
IE6 problem with divs solved,
timezoneoffset mod integrated,
text input limited to 255 characters.

1.2.3 changes :
security hole on the pruning of the admin part fixed.

1.2.2 changes :
templatesused var filled with all templates used by the
script in the shoutbox.php file and in the index.php file.
And chmod 777 made on the admin/shoutbox_config.php file
by the install script. Thanks to erwin

Name changed from shoutbox to chatbox, because some people
thought of this hack as related with TWT-commish's shoutbox...
no more excuses


Here is some sort of [high]FAQ[/high] from all the thread,
hope this helps, and prevents you from reading all that i just read :

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Erwin : limit of smilies a person can post in the shoutbox.
This is to prevent smilie spamming : HERE
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Erwin : Another tip for installers - instead of manually having to
ban users in the shoutbox, to automatically ban users who
you have already banned from the forums : HERE
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For the shoutbox to be in a popup : HERE
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To have 5 'shouts/chats' visible when the chatbox is reduced :
HERE
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SpeedStreet : This simply creates a link for people to click on so
that they can easily view the 'Who's Online' page without
having to dig for it : HERE
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ThoughtDiver: if you want the date format on the shout timestamps
to read Month/Day instead of Day/Month : HERE
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[ogden2k]

Does this hack eat a lot of bandwidth?

[jdmuniverse]

04-28-03 at 07:32 PM Sadie Frost said this in Post #319
(I got mine to work - thanks to everyone who tried to help! )

Hello... How did you get this to work? The pop up that is... I've been trying for hours..LOL I tried deleting all the spaces in your code and that didn't work.

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks

[jdmuniverse]

I found the answer on Sadie Frost's site...

<a href="javascript://" OnClick=javascript:window.open('chatbox.php','popup','status=0,direc tories=0,too lbar=0,location=0,menuBar=0,scrollbars=1,resizable =1,width=650,height=130,left=1 00,top=100');return false;">

Thanks

[gmarik]

[url.]http://phpclub.net/talk/[./url]

It does not makes a link, but returns these brackets.
Can it be fixed?

[Slappy Nutz]

*EDIT* Found the problem

[gmarik]

p0s3id0n, have some questions.

I reinstalled the hack three times, but it did not worked for me no more. The problem is - when clicking on the smilie icon, calling smilies page, the browser hangs on and does not replies any more. And another thing - I would realy respect (and would help, if needed), you could install the Embed PHP hack (Ed's?!) and instead of using iframe, just take a require function, so it will be faster and stable on all the browsers.

I would really appreaciate that, if somebody gets to it,

Marco, webmaxtor.com

[Keyser S?ze]

upgrade addon idea, add a box to allow attachments in the chatbox

would be cool, also a quick delete for mods and admins without having to go into the cp would be nice

[padblaz]

working great, i love this hack
thanks for it

[gmarik]

Chatbox wishlist
- add always on top smileys and code windows option
- replace framset with require php function
- add after every post [e] edit [d] delete link for super moderators and admins
- translate all variables from French to English
- an option to chat for Unregestired (if turned on)
- the panel added in vB Options, as vBhomelite, for example

[grog6]

This add-on adds an option in your Admin Control panel, to choose usergroups who will be able to access to the chatbox.
For users which usergroup is not allowed to access the chatbox in your ACP, it will not appear on your main page, but even if they try to access to it with the url (www.yourforum.com/chatbox.php), an error message will be display to show them it's not possible to access to this chatbox :-)

This hack was asked by Curl| in this thread :

- https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=53493

Installation time : 2 min
Files to modify : 1
Files to upload : 2