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.

[Khalid-B]

Hello.
How can i add chatbox under Navbar??

Thanks

[GSPFAN]

To add the Chatbox below the navbar on the forum home:

In FORUMHOME template, find

$navbar

Below that, add

<!-- Chatbox -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat"><a style="float:right" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_chatboxtop')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_chatboxtop" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="#" onclick="return openChatbox()">$vbphrase[chatbox_chatbox]</a></td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_chatboxtop" style="">
<tr>
<td class="alt1" width="100%" colspan="2"><div class="smallfont" align="center"><iframe src="chatbox.php?nofocus=1" width="100%"$chatboxheight style="border: 0px" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br />
<!-- / Chatbox -->

[gonkowonko]

why does the username colour not match the forum? it shows the primary user group colour and not the selected groups colours ?

[rnmcd]

Originally Posted by Dream

Rnmcd, use the attached product file to update your chatbox to 1.9, and then update your files with the files in the chatbox 1.9.zip (if you havent removed the chatbox table)

I overwrote the existing product (ver 1.0) with the product-chatbox.xml (ver. 1.9) then I uploaded chatbox_admin.php, cpnav_chatbox.xml, and chatbox.php.

Are there any template changes I need to make?

Also, does the "Enable Color?" option in Admincp > vBulletin Options use much resources?

[Dream]

No need for new template changes, unless you want to use the option "chatbox height", then you redo your forumhome template edit.

No the colors don't use much resources.

[rnmcd]

Tonight I plan to upgrade from vb 3.6.4 to vb 3.6.8.

What template edits will I need to make for that? Do I do what is listed in the install.txt for Chatbox 1.9?

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Did you get my donation?
I plan to use some of your other mods soon and I'll donate for those when I install them.

[Dream]

Yes I got it it's really appreciated, thanks.

Just follow the template edits in install.txt and you are set. There's no secret to it, if you have problems just ask.

Are you using the chatbox under the navbar or at the bottom of the forum?

[rnmcd]

Mine is at the bottom of the forum.

[Dream]

Then just follow the instructions in install.txt and you'll be fine.

[Zaeolos]

Dream, I too need the usernames' color to be the same as the 'Display Usergroup' color and not the 'Main Usergroup' color. If you can just show a quick edit to do or add that into your options, that would be great.