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]

Originally Posted by TrIn@dOr

Dream, i still can't have moderators!

I'll look into fixing the secondary user groups for you.

[TrIn@dOr]

Originally Posted by Dream

I'll look into fixing the secondary user groups for you.

Thanks a lot!

[Dream]

Originally Posted by TrIn@dOr

Thanks a lot!

Download the 1.9 zip file again and try the new chatbox.php please.

[ForeverForums]

anyone know of a deceny shout box that will work for 3.5.2 ? or will this one work with that ?

[Dream]

This one *should* work with 3.5, try using the 3.5 product file.

[achilies.biz]

Originally Posted by Dream

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

All is OK, thanks

If you want you can see your product for russian customers here: www.fliz.ru

p.s. where i can mark it like installed ?

[Dream]

Awesome glad it worked for you, cheers

Don't forget to tell your users about the /me code :P

[Dream]

Oh guys leave your live demos in this thread for me to use in the first post if your forum webpage isn't a secret and you have your chatbox visible to guests of course

[ForeverForums]

working indeed in 3.5.2 thanks alot for this one. my members are going to love it.

[Omega409]

Originally Posted by Dream

Try changing this

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

for this

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

In chatbox.php

Fine! This fix works! Thanks!