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.

[Dream]

lol can you take a screenshot for me?

[arco]

Originally Posted by Dream

And thanks a lot arco for helping me with support of this mod

No problem.

[Amiga75]

I see you fixed that in your site, what did you do to fix it?

I changed the following

Line 524: echo '<div align="left"><div class="smallfont" id="shoutsDiv">';
Line 526: echo '</div></div>';
Line 596: echo "\n\n".'<div align="left"><div class="smallfont"><span id="timeNow">'.$date.'</span><form action="javascript:postShout()" name="chatboxForm"><input type="hidden" name="nofocus"><input type="hidden" name="isrefresh"><input type="hidden" name="repostshout"><input type="hidden" name="from"><input type="text" name="shout" size="'.$input_size.'" maxlength="255" class="smallfont"'.$disabled.' value="'.$message.'"> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="'.$text_send.'" class="button"'.$disabled.'>'.$refreshbutton.' '.$pagelinks.$smilieslink.'<br /></form></div></div>'."\n";

[LockeAG]

small bug, I can not leave the Chatbox collapsed.... They are users that doesn't want the Chatbox expanded...

Thnaks .!

see'a

[SkippySkippy]

I was so tired of the bulky and slow Java IRC chatroom... this was the perfect, easy solution (now my users that don't run Java can use this!). Installed... thanks!

Nominated for MotM.

-Skip

[Tri@de]

There's a way to put it only in a forum (ex: admin sub forum)?

[nureeves]

Some users that online via their mobile phone can't use this feature
any suggest?

[TrIn@dOr]

Soory, but can't delete shots, the usergroup of moderator must be primary?

[TrIn@dOr]

Originally Posted by TrIn@dOr

Soory, but can't delete shots, the usergroup of moderator must be primary?

Is a fact, users can delete own messages, but Usergroups 5 and 6 can see X to delte others messages.

vB 3.6.7

[fpattberg]

Brilliant work Dream. It works like a charm and is exactly what I needed! :up:

Installed!

Fabian