Add-On Releases - [ITech] [AJAX] Inferno vBShout Lite 2.5.0

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[ITech] [AJAX] Inferno vBShout Lite
Created By Inferno Technologies (http://www.infernotechnologies.net)
Copyright 2004-2008
All rights reserved
Project Development Team: Zero Tolerance
Project Lead: Iain "Decado" Kidd
Support Forum: http://forums.infernotechnologies.ne...-Supp-f23.html
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Pro Version: http://infernotechnologies.net/idx/infernoshout/

2.5.1 Update
Fixed Bug: Archive Pagination wasn't working (page 2 showed same content as page 1)
Fixed Bug: Archive member links did not work
AOP Change: AOP now uses aop.txt, to work on IIS servers.


Project Description

This is the latest version of Inferno vBShout LITE, the free version of our Inferno vBShout Pro product (see above link). Those who were running 1.0.1 Lite will find a lot of useful upgrades and additions, including aesthetic changes and many bug fixes and most importantly a huge decrease in server load and bandwidth consumption.

Support
This version is supported, exclusively at our support forums.

Features

• AJAX Shoutbox
• AJAX Shoutbox Active Users
• Formatting Options Saved
• Notice posted when user replies to a thread
• Notice posted when user creates a new thread
• Notices posted for most admin commands executed
• /prune command (admin only)
• /ban userid or username command (admin only)
• /unban userid or username command (admin only)
• /notice message (admin only) Assigns shoutbox notice
• /removenotive (admin only) Removes any assgned shoutbox notice
• On/off switch for the Shoutbox
• Enhanced Page Deployment - Easily place the shoutbox ANYWHERE in your forum
• Editor Colours/Fonts editable
• Editor Position
• Shoutbox frame height
• Select which editor tools to display
• Select which BBCodes are allowed within the shoutbox
• Allow images in the shoutbox
• Allow smilies in the shoutbox
• Edit shoutbox notice (alternate to using command)
• Edit shoutbox banned users (alternate to using command)
• Idle Timeout (Seconds) - Set how many seconds before a user becomes idle in the shoutbox, this stops shoutbox updates
• Select Usergroups who can use admin commands
• Enter forum ID(s) which are exempt from new thread/reply shoutbox notices
• Archive System (view all shouts, see shout statistics, view top shouters)
• Shoutbox Lockdown Mode (Only 1 userid will be able to shout)
• Shouts To Display (How many shouts you want to display)
• Flood Control (Shouts cannot be posted after X seconds of shout)
• Use Normal Font Size (instead of using small font)
• Shout Listings Order (Show newest at top or bottom)
• Smilies To Show (set how many smilies you want to show)
• Maximum [SIZE] (Set the maximum size allowed for the [SIZE] tag)
• Protected Usergroups (cannot be banned)
• Disable Thread/Reply Notices
• Thread/Reply Notice Exemptions (Enter forum IDs to be exempt)
• AJAX Refresh Speed (Set how fast ajax will refresh)
• Smilies Menu
• Hide Shoutbox To UGs

Additional Features

Auto-Idle
The auto-idle system will drastically lower server load on sites with many users on at the same time. It allows you to automatically set the user to "idle" in the shoutbox, meaning the shoutbox will load shouts once, then idle the user until the click the unidle button or make a shout. Afterwards they will idle as normal (as set in the ACP).

Shoutbox Advanced Optimised Protocol
The Shoutbox AOP is a brand new feature that when turned on will dramatically cut server resources/bandwidth used by the shoutbox. Instead of the shoutbox refreshing every X seconds to check if there is new data, it will know when there is new data and only refresh then, meaning when there is no activity in the shoutbox, no resources will be consumed, or bandwidth.

Shoutbox Low Level Logging
The shoutbox low level logging system will provide you with a log of shout edits, deletes, bans, unbans, notices and remove notice commands. This will help you keep track of commands being used in the shoutbox. This can be turned off.

Private Message System
When clicking a username in the shoutbox, it will now open a new "tab" (This is a shoutbox tab, not a browser tab). In this tab you will be able to privately chat to the member where only they and you will see the messages. This helps split private chats and the main chat, and you can have as many private chats open as you like!



vBSEO Issues?
If you're encountering issues with vBSEO this is most likely due to the option within vBSEO to "clean html", you do not need to turn this option off, but you will need to change the plugin for vBShout. Go to the Plugin Manager within your ACP, and find the plugin: "Inferno Shoutbox: Deploy Shoutbox". Edit this plugin, and where you see the option "Execution Order", set this to 1 and save, you should no longer encounter issues.


Note
I'll update screenshots soon! 5am here right now...

Enjoy!

Zero Tolerance
Inferno Technologies Lead Developer

[shavedaccord]

So yeah..this script has just become completely useless to me since it overloads servers..

Dear Customer,

This script has been suspended as it was overloading our server:

top - 02:08:21 up 79 days, 11:52, 2 users, load average: 6.61, 5.60, 5.52
Tasks: 247 total, 10 running, 235 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie
Cpu(s): 60.6% us, 17.1% sy, 2.0% ni, 9.9% id, 10.4% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 2074716k total, 2015884k used, 58832k free, 71964k buffers
Swap: 2096472k total, 139656k used, 1956816k free, 681416k cached

PID USER PR NI %CPU TIME+ %MEM VIRT RES SHR S COMMAND
15792 sixthgen 16 0 15 0:00.46 0.5 21360 10m 4404 S /usr/bin/php infernoshout.php
15801 sixthgen 15 0 15 0:00.46 0.0 0 0 0 Z [php] <defunct>
15813 sixthgen 20 0 12 0:00.37 0.5 21328 10m 4436 R /usr/bin/php infernoshout.php
15815 sixthgen 18 0 12 0:00.36 0.5 21328 10m 4440 R /usr/bin/php infernoshout.php
15816 sixthgen 19 0 8 0:00.23 0.5 21212 10m 4412 R /usr/bin/php infernoshout.php
15788 sixthgen 15 0 0 0:00.42 0.0 0 0 0 Z [php] <defunct>
15819 sixthgen 17 0 0 0:00.00 0.1 15484 1848 1568 R /usr/bin/php infernoshout.php

This is unacceptable. Please replace this script with the fixed version of it.

Best regards,
Alexander Kashkevich
Support Team

[Shazz]

Originally Posted by shavedaccord

So yeah..this script has just become completely useless to me since it overloads servers..

Uhmm.. This shoutbox? Which host do you use

[shavedaccord]

Originally Posted by Shazz

Uhmm.. This shoutbox? Which host do you use

Hostony.com

[Inferno Tech]

are you on a shared hosting plan, or VPS, or dedicated?

[DiageoLiam]

/prune etc. doesn't work..
Although I've applied permissions correctly.. they wont save?!

[shavedaccord]

Originally Posted by Inferno Tech

are you on a shared hosting plan, or VPS, or dedicated?

I believe it's a VPS due to the amount of space & amenities we have.

[Inferno Tech]

Hmm very strange, i know when we used a VPS we never had any problems, even when we were using a more server intensive version of the shoutbox.

A new version of the shoutbox pro using AOP to massivley reduce server load will be released in the next day or two, but i don't think we'll be making a new lite version any time soon unfortunately.

Occasionaly people do have issues with the shoutbox server load, but that's almost exclusivley on shared hosting.

If you throw me a PM on the itech site, i'll try to get you hooked up with a test copy of the new version, if it runs ok on your server you can purchase it, if not, you can delete it =)

[ranj]

I have just upgraded the shoutbox and first it was giving me database error then i unstalled it and installed it again now its not showing me the shouts...... whats wrong

[Kiros72]

Well, I'm getting a database error too:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.9:

Invalid SQL:

			select s.*, u.username, u.displaygroupid, u.usergroupid, u.userid, o.*
			from vbulletin_infernoshout s
			left join vbulletin_user u on (u.userid = s.s_user)
			left join vbulletin_infernoshoutusers o on (o.s_user = s.s_user)
			where
			(
				(s.s_private = -1)
				OR
				(s.s_private = '192')
				OR
				(s.s_private <> -1 AND s.s_user = '192')
			)
			and
			(
				o.s_silenced = '0'
				OR
				(o.s_silenced <> '0' AND u.userid = '192')
			)
			
			order by s.s_time desc
			limit 20;

MySQL Error  : Unknown column 's.s_private' in 'where clause'
Error Number : 1054
Date         : Saturday, April 5th 2008 @ 01:17:01 AM
Script       : http://website.com/forums/infernoshout.php
Referrer     : http://website.com/forums/index.php
IP Address   : 71.12.240.19
Username     : Kiros
Classname    : vB_Database_MySQLi

I just moved to a new server that has PHP 5.2.5 and MySQL 4.1.22, so I upgraded my vBulletin to 3.6.9 and set it to use MySQLi instead of just MySQL.

Any ideas?

[ranj]

i was getting same error too