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]

no problem good night

[achilies.biz]

Originally Posted by Dream

no problem good night

Hello!

I just want to ask you one little stupid question:

where i can change title of window, i want to change everywehre 'Chatbox' to 'Chat' ?

thanks advance

[Sofia]

Hello Dream

It's ok. I post the french translation of your Chatbox. You can put it in downloads.

Regards, Sofia.

[Omega409]

Top Hack!

Originally Posted by Mark.B

You can change the default text size quite easily by editing chatbox.php.

Please, what for code must i chance?

[TrIn@dOr]

Dream, i still can't have moderators!

[TrIn@dOr]

Originally Posted by TrIn@dOr

Dream, i still can't have moderators!

I know what is it.

If a user belongs to more than 1 usergroup, u need to put both or all usergroups to work.

[TrIn@dOr]

Originally Posted by TrIn@dOr

I know what is it.

If a user belongs to more than 1 usergroup, u need to put both or all usergroups to work.

Is not this, usergropup need to be primary to work!

[Dream]

Originally Posted by achilies.biz

Hello!

I just want to ask you one little stupid question:

where i can change title of window, i want to change everywehre 'Chatbox' to 'Chat' ?

thanks advance

Just change the GLOBAL phrase chatbox_chatbox. Also please mark as installed if you use this mod

[Dream]

Originally Posted by Sofia

Hello Dream

It's ok. I post the french translation of your Chatbox. You can put it in downloads.

Regards, Sofia.

Thank you

Also I love your avatar =^_^=

[Dream]

Originally Posted by Omega409

Top Hack!



Please, what for code must i chance?

Try changing this

echo '<div class="smallfont" id="shoutsDiv" align="left">';

for this

echo '<div id="shoutsDiv" align="left">';

In chatbox.php