Chat Modifications - Dream's Chatbox

This adds a Chatbox in your forum home page.

Here's how it works: every 5 minutes the chatbox asks the server if there are new messages. You can change this 5 minutes to any number of seconds you want, but the lower you go the more server resources the chatbox uses.

Features:
- AJAX
- Pages
- Change refresh rate
- Hide chatbox content from chosen usergroups
- Set usergroups that can't send messages
- Set moderator usergroups that can delete messages
- Can disable auto refresh for guests
- Prune messages by user ID, user name, days old or all messages
- Enable smilies, bbcode and/or [ img ]
- Automatic URL parsing
- Option for users to delete own messages
- Smilies popup with all smilies you can use
- Who's Online Support
- User names uses usergroup colors
- Ban Users
- /me code
- Message colors
- and more

This mod is final, no new features will be added.

[Dream]

in the zip file theres a text file with instructions on how to add there

[yinyang]

Thank you. Installed and users loving it.

One thing, and this may be simple, but I can't figure it out.

How do you change the background color of the chatbox?

[yinyang]

figured it out!

just paste

PHP Code:

allowTransparency="true" 


in the iframe attributes.

[AlexanderT]

I upgraded to 3.7rc yesterday and subsequently also upgraded Dream's Chatbox to 2.1. Now I (and my users) have random Ajax error messages popping up on the Forumhome where Chatbox is installed. This never happened while we were still running 3.69 + Chatbox 2.0.

See attachment.

[AlexanderT]

Originally Posted by AlexanderT

I upgraded to 3.7rc yesterday and subsequently also upgraded Dream's Chatbox to 2.1. Now I (and my users) have random Ajax error messages popping up on the Forumhome where Chatbox is installed. This never happened while we were still running 3.69 + Chatbox 2.0.

See attachment.

Update: It seems the error occurs when, as the error message suggests, there is a communication loss. This can happen for instance when you unplug your internet connectivity while the chatbox ajax call is waiting for a response, or when you put your notebook to standby and resume again later.

Perhaps there is a parameter to vb's/Yahoo's Ajax routines to surpress the error exception?

Update 2: It seems there is. Yahoo Ui Library defines a YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest callback for handling failures: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/connection/ and vB is handling this via vBulletin_AJAX_Error_Handler.

[AlexanderT]

OK, I replaced

PHP Code:

failure: function(o) { window.alert('AJAX error, please try again. (HTTP status: ' + o.status + ' / ' + o.statusText + ')'); } 


with

PHP Code:

timeout: vB_Default_Timeout,
failure: vBulletin_AJAX_Error_Handler 


in getNewShouts(), and the error popup seems to be gone.

[Dream]

Yup that happens here too when my computer hibernate and lose connection to the internet. If this gets too annoying I'll remove it depending on the status error.

[AlexanderT]

Dream, there seems to be also other situations. I had a couple of my users report this to me the first day I upgraded to vB 3.7rc. To me it also popped up a few times when I switched back from another Firefox tab to the one containing my forum with the chat installed. It's probably best to make the error handling conditional and ignore it in case of a "connection loss".

[rapidphim]

can someone please tell me how many queries this thing will use? What are the pro and con among this with MCG and CChat?

[bornoffire]

When i am idle on the forum page it pops this error up.

"AJAX error, please try again (HTTP status:0/Communication failure)"

I see you guys are aware of this. Can u tell me how to disable this?