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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[jdmuniverse]

Is there a way to get the background and fonts to change when a user changes the style of the forums?

Works great for me in 2.2.9 Thanks!

[esfron]

As Scottctd, is there anyway to keep unregistered from from posting in the chat? With http://www.yourdomainname/forum/chatbox.php? , they are able to see the chat and posting.

It's working on 2.3.0

Thx

[esfron]

I want to add the Grog6's usergroup_add-on to keep unregistered from from posting in the chat but I got this MySQL error message.

SQL Error 1064
You have an error in your SQL syntax near '; INSERT INTO `chatbox_config` (`id`,`usergroupid`) VALUES ('1', '1|2|3|4|5|6|7' at line 1

The requests are:

CREATE TABLE `chatbox_config` (`id` TINYINT (2) , `usergroupid` VARCHAR (20) );
INSERT INTO `chatbox_config` (`id`,`usergroupid`) VALUES ('1', '1|2|3|4|5|6|7');

Any idea ?

[wolfgang2]

Great hack , i installed it right away.
But one Problem...the smilies are not showing up at all

Any suggestions?

[ViewMy.biz]

So is this considered a flawless hack for 2.3.*

[gmarik]

For 2.3 no problems.
Only it would be good if guest could chat as well ...

[obsidian]

06-26-03 at 06:00 PM dakotausa said this in Post #353
I get this when i try to chang something in the admin panel:


Warning: fopen(chatbox_config.php) [function.fopen]: failed to create stream: Permission denied in /home/dakotaus/public_html/vBulletin/admin/chatbox_admin.php on line 21

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/dakotaus/public_html/vBulletin/admin/chatbox_admin.php on line 23

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/dakotaus/public_html/vBulletin/admin/chatbox_admin.php on line 24

Not sure how or what to fix. The chat is working it shows up and people have used it but i can't change the config from the admin panel

You need to CHMOD your chatbox_config.php file

[gmarik]

1. Every day chatlog archive
2. Guests can enter nick and chat as an option

[Mitsuaki]

will there be a version of this hack released for vB 3??? cus this is the best chatbox hack ever and i would like it for vB3..

[ViewMy.biz]

Anyone have it running on 2.3.2