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Dream's Chatbox · **Released**: 11-06-2006

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.

N00BIE · #62 01-25-2007, 07:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flow Fusion

Anybody solve this?

mine is under the nav bar..

in
FORUMHOME
find:

Code:

[x_powered_by_vbulletin]</phrase></title>
</head>
<body>
$header

about 14 lines down from the top below that add the code..

Flow Fusion · #63 01-26-2007, 11:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by N00BIE

mine is under the nav bar..

in
FORUMHOME
find:

Code:

[x_powered_by_vbulletin]</phrase></title>
</head>
<body>
$header

about 14 lines down from the top below that add the code..

Thanx for the reply. I solved this about a week ago and should have posted it. Again, thank you for the assistance!

MistaMarkael · #64 01-28-2007, 03:59 AM

is there a way i could place this in users profiles so that each user had their own tagboard with their own posts n tags

TheFrienzNet · #65 01-28-2007, 04:10 PM

Thanks, this looks great.

*Edit*

Sorry, I don't really like it. Nice effort though!

Patria · #66 02-03-2007, 02:44 PM

- prune support for moderators added
- guests (people who are in the canshout array) couldnt see the content of the chatbox anymore

xoclanes · #67 02-05-2007, 06:00 PM

is there a way to make the chatbox appear on all the forums no just the index?

inspiration100 · #68 02-11-2007, 11:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoclanes

is there a way to make the chatbox appear on all the forums no just the index?

Would like to know also, plus is there a way to make th enames the same colours as the group legend...e.g admin group displays in red

Kadi · #69 03-03-2007, 02:24 PM

My members have been asking for this for a while. I've installed it on a test page and its working fine.

My forum is in Arabic, right to left, is it possible to have the text and time on the right?

Thanks

Dream · #70 03-03-2007, 07:21 PM

I wouldn't know how to change that Kadi, sorry

You can ask for help, for someone to try and change the script and release it again.

scan-pa · #71 03-03-2007, 09:00 PM

You should look for this code in chatbox.php:

echo '['.$time.'] <em>'.$shout['username'].$del.'</em>: '.$parsed.'<br />';
}
echo '</div>';

Re arange this to how you would like to display it.

be sure to save a backup before making changes. if I have time I will try it.

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