Version: 2.0, by Dream
Developer Last Online: Sep 2010
Category: Chat Modifications -
Version: 3.6.8
Rating:
Released: 11-06-2006
Last Update: 08-13-2007
Installs: 381
DB Changes Uses Plugins Template Edits
Re-useable Code Additional Files
No support by the author.
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
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.
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I believe the three features would be handy for the chatbox, which others have..
/ban *username or *userid* Function.
/unban *username or *userid* Function.
/notice To set a notice above all shouts.
I hope you could add them, they help keep monitoring of the chatbox easier. Otherwise, I'm going for the MCG shoutbox, but i really love you're quality as it gives what is needed.
heyy ... would you please add to this mod, style button for chat ... such Bold, Italic .. and also for text size !!!
Sorry no new features are planned for this mod.
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Originally Posted by cuphongle
nice one dream
how do we disabled banned usergroup from seeing the shoutbox?
You put the usergroup you want in the 'cant see chatbox' option.
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Originally Posted by WNM07
the 'Text Input on Top' option doesn't seem to be working. Where can i check the template? is there one?
otherwise it works great thanks
There are no templates in this mod. The 'text input on top?' option is to show the send button etc on top or at the bottom, and it also changes the messages order for them to begin from the bottom or from the top.
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Originally Posted by Otikeu
Hello,
I believe the three features would be handy for the chatbox, which others have..
/ban *username or *userid* Function.
/unban *username or *userid* Function.
/notice To set a notice above all shouts.
I hope you could add them, they help keep monitoring of the chatbox easier. Otherwise, I'm going for the MCG shoutbox, but i really love you're quality as it gives what is needed.
Thank you.
Hello, no new features are planned for this chatbox. You have a banned users option in the chatbox options in the admincp.
If you want it to appear on all pages of your forum, add the forumhome template edit at the end of the navbar template. That would show the chatbox at the top of your forums though. To add it to the bottom of all pages you would need to add the template edit somewhere else, but I wouldn't be sure where.
Hiya. I'm going to try your chatbox. I currently have the one from vBDev installed and it's irritating, lol. It's a good one, but doesn't work well on my forum for IE7 users.
Well, It's easy to install and I like it except for one thing. I need the text input and buttons to stay at the bottom of the chatbox, not move with each post.
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09-01-2007, 06:31 AM
