Chat Modifications - Dream's Chatbox

This adds a Chatbox in your forum home page.

Here's how it works: every 5 minutes the chatbox asks the server if there are new messages. You can change this 5 minutes to any number of seconds you want, but the lower you go the more server resources the chatbox uses.

Features:
- AJAX
- Pages
- Change refresh rate
- Hide chatbox content from chosen usergroups
- Set usergroups that can't send messages
- Set moderator usergroups that can delete messages
- Can disable auto refresh for guests
- Prune messages by user ID, user name, days old or all messages
- Enable smilies, bbcode and/or [ img ]
- Automatic URL parsing
- Option for users to delete own messages
- Smilies popup with all smilies you can use
- Who's Online Support
- User names uses usergroup colors
- Ban Users
- /me code
- Message colors
- and more

This mod is final, no new features will be added.

[SBoards]

Originally Posted by HTMMinion

Are you getting the "403 Forbidden" error too SBoards?

yes ... completely reverted the forumhome template and reinstalled the chatbox ... same thing. But, completely random. I haven't experienced the errors myself... but all of my users are complaining about it.

[sdsvtdriver]

Using 1.3, but this may apply to 2.1 so I'll ask.

Links that have comma's in them don't parse properly. The code parses the link up to the comma and ignores the rest. Is there an easy fix for this?

[SBoards]

I can't post a link in our chatbox now without removing http:// from it

[abotavon]

chatbox is awesome, but one thing, how do you change the background color? my background is black, I'd like for the chatbox background to be white, thanks in advance

[nasko]

I'm looking for a private moderators only chat add-on, but one which is like a chat room. Whenever a moderator writes something it should pop out to every other moderator, that is online and vice versa. It is needed for better collaboration between moderators so everyone agrees with a certain course of action being chosen. It would be advantageous to have the option to sign in the chat, to show that they are available as moderators. Maybe something like the one in facebook, but for more than 2 persons. I believe permissions will be based on usergroups, so having the same one for regular users will be good too.

I looked through the available ones, but the choice is big and I'm probably not even getting the full list with the search term "chat"

vBulletin? Version 3.7.2

Will this chat work for me?
Thank you.

[bluesoul]

Dream, is there any way to call the replacement variable manager to parse the chatbox entries on the fly? I'm wanting to using it as a more powerful censorship variable and the chatbox doesn't seem to look for replacement vars.

[wickedstangs]

how to setup to automatically refresh not working for me?

[mbnoob]

i have vb 3.8.0
chatbox 2.1.1

works fine in firefox3, but the auto refresh dont work in ie7 ???

any idea?

[sdsvtdriver]

Originally Posted by HTMMinion

I'm not sure what happened, but suddenly I cannot post links in the chatbox anymore, it worked fine 2 days ago and i have not updated anything. I'm using version 2.1 with vBulletin Version 3.7.2. When I attempt to post a link I get the error "AJAX error, please try again. (HTTP status: 403 / Forbidden)".

I tried overwriting all the files for version 2.1 and overwriting the product xml import as well and I have the same issue.

Any ideas?

Not that this helps much, but I started seeing this error after I installed XCache, but not related to posting links. If it is idle for a long time, I'll get this message. Not sure if it is related to XCache or not as it really isn't a big impact to track down.

[The Donkey Farm]

any chance you will make this mod compatible with 3.8?