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.

[LisaJH]

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.8:

Invalid SQL:
CREATE TABLE chatbox (
`shoutid` INT( 10 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
`userid` INT( 10 ) NOT NULL ,
`username` VARCHAR( 100 ) NOT NULL ,
`shout` VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL ,
`dateline` INT( 10 ) NOT NULL ,
`ipaddress` VARCHAR( 16 ) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY ( `shoutid` )
);;

MySQL Error : Table 'chatbox' already exists
Error Number : 1050
Date : Wednesday, April 2nd 2008 @ 09:17:44 AM
Script : http://www.wildmums.com/admincp/plug...=productimport
Referrer : http://www.wildmums.com/admincp/plug...?do=productadd
IP Address : 124.182.222.141
Username : Queen Bee
Classname : vb_database

it dont wanna work for me...

I have version 3.6.8

[torturedsoul26]

Hey everyone, I'm getting the following problem:

I uploaded all the files, did the whole setup and the chatbox works like it says. However, the chatbox logs the user out. As admin, I don't have a problem on my computer, but many others are telling me that the chatbox logs off. I mean, they are still "logged in" on the forum, but the chatbox area dissapears saying they have been logged off even though they are still logged in. Is this a chatbox problem or something else?

[sensuison]

Very nice mod. I got it up and running on my forum.

http://www.philippinebasketball.net/forum

Thanks!

[torturedsoul26]

Originally Posted by torturedsoul26

Hey everyone, I'm getting the following problem:

I uploaded all the files, did the whole setup and the chatbox works like it says. However, the chatbox logs the user out. As admin, I don't have a problem on my computer, but many others are telling me that the chatbox logs off. I mean, they are still "logged in" on the forum, but the chatbox area dissapears saying they have been logged off even though they are still logged in. Is this a chatbox problem or something else?

BUMP!

[sensuison]

Ok I got 1 issue here on my VBAdvanced. I just installed a vbadvanced to make it my homepage:

http://philippinebasketball.net

Notice that on the homepage, the "chatbox" button on the main menu is not working. It is working on the http://philippinebasketball.net/forum page though.

Maybe some script fixing?

[torturedsoul26]

Originally Posted by sensuison

Ok I got 1 issue here on my VBAdvanced. I just installed a vbadvanced to make it my homepage:

http://philippinebasketball.net

Notice that on the homepage, the "chatbox" button on the main menu is not working. It is working on the http://philippinebasketball.net/forum page though.

Maybe some script fixing?

The link is wrong. It just links you back to the "forum/#". It should say "/forum/chatbox.php" or something to the like.

[sensuison]

But why is it working on the forum folder? http://www.philippinebasketball.net/forum and it's a java script pop up.

[PoLlama]

Having a problem too. Just rather different. When you try to post the site will begin to show the source of chatbox.php. Using vB 3.7 RC2.



Any idea what that means?

http://www.pollama.com/forums.php
^ Scroll down to "What's going on".

[Dream]

Originally Posted by PoLlama

Having a problem too. Just rather different. When you try to post the site will begin to show the source of chatbox.php. Using vB 3.7 RC2.



Any idea what that means?

http://www.pollama.com/forums.php
^ Scroll down to "What's going on".

use the chatbox for vb 3.7 not this one

[Dream]

Originally Posted by torturedsoul26

BUMP!

do you use multiple domains? see if the chatbox isnt linking to a different domain