Chat Modifications - Cyb - ChatBox

Info:
Powerful AJAX-based ChatBox for vBulletin.

Main Features:
-One step installation (no file uploads, no manual template modifications required)
-Put ChatBox on any forum page by setting script name and adding variable to desired template
-"ChatBox Full" (always available on separate page)
-"Messages Archive" (available on separate page, with options to edit/delete messages)
-"ChatBox Search"
-Option to block usergroups from viewing ChatBox
-Option to delete messages older than x hours automatically
-"ChatBox Statistics" (new messages since last visit, messages in last x hours, total messages, top x chatters,...)
-View users active in ChatBox (available in CBFull and Archive)
-Text formatting options (color, weight, style, decoration,...)
-Advanced Smiliebox
-Smiliebox options: total smilies available, smilies per row, smilie clipping, disable smilies...
-A lot of customizable stuff, including: set new/old status icons, time/date format, box height, message order, auto-refresh intervals,...
-One-click actions: View all messages posted by user X, Delete all messages posted by user x, Ban/unban user from ChatBox, View last message posted by user X, View your last message, View first unread message
-"/me" action (used when you want to refer to yourself in the "third person")
...and more...

See screenshots for more details.

Installation:
1. Import XML file (as product): AdminCP > Plugin System > Manage Products > [Add/Import Product]
2. OPTIONAL (custom placement on forum page)
Open desired template and put "$cybchatbox" to desired line.

To set options:
Go to: AdminCP > vBulletin Options > Cyb - ChatBox

To have ChatBox enabled on desired page:
1. THIS_SCRIPT must be defined in php file (by default all important vBulletin files has this)
2. Hack options - You must add THIS_SCRIPT value for target page to "Show ChatBox on" setting field
3. Main template called on target page must contain "$cybchatbox" variable

To have ChatBox enabled on vBa CMPS:
1. Hack options - Add "adv_index" to "Show ChatBox on" setting field (values in this field should be separated by commas) > Save
2. vBa CMPS Default Settings - add "cybchatbox" to "Portal Output Global Variables" field (values in this field should be separated by carriage return) > Save
3. [Optional] Template "adv_portal" - add "$cybchatbox" to line where you want ChatBox to appear (for example below "$navbar") > Save

Versions:
v1.0 - Sep 15. 2007.
-First version
v1.1-v1.6 - Sep/Oct 2007.
-Bug fixes, improvements, several new options added,...
v1.7 - Oct 07. 2007.
-Released at vB.org
v1.8 - Oct 11. 2007.
-Fixed bug where moderators can not delete messages
-New: Set auto-refresh interval for messages
-New: Set auto-refresh interval for active users
-New: Option to enable auto-refresh for guests
-New: Option to reverse message order (newest at bottom)
v1.8.1 - Oct 11. 2007.
-Fixed bug where colspan in Archive is not set correctly for moderators
-Added ability to disable date in mesages (simply leave date field blank)
-Added option to have ChatBox always collapsed by default (ChatBox Full not affected)
v1.8.2 - Oct 12. 2007.
-Fixed bug (reversed message order gives wrong results)
-New: Set timecut in minutes for active users listing
-New: Automatically parse links in messages (can be disabled)
v1.8.3 - Oct 13. 2007.
-Auto-prune setting field restored
-Fixed bug where some users are logged-out after posting message
-Improved detection and listing of active users
-If user is active in ChatBox it will be shown in profile and wol list
v1.9 - Oct 15. 2007.
-New: Not all smilies are loaded on startup. Set how many of them you want to show before user clicks "More".
-New: "/me" user action ("/me" in submitted message will be replaced by author's username, and message appears in color you set)
-Minor bug fixes
v1.9.1 - Oct 15. 2007.
-Fixed bug from previous version where message area height not follows your settings properly
v1.9.2 - Nov 06. 2007.
-New option in user menu: View messages posted by user
-Option to allow users to delete their own messages
-Fixed bug where admin with primary usergroup different than 6 is not able to delete all messages
-Fixed bug where links to member profiles in messages are broken at "/member.php"
-"Delete Selected" moved to phrases
v1.9.3 - Nov 20. 2007.
-New: Set groups able to view Chatbox but not post messages
-New: Set groups able to edit/delete all messages, and ban/unban users from ChatBox
-New: Customize color list in message posting interface
-New: Ban list
-Fixed default text color
-Fixed some compatibility issues for "/me" action
-Fixed bug where some users get db error when importing product
-Fixed bug where you need to refresh page after "Busy" message to continue chatting
-Minor bug fixes
v1.9.4 - Nov 21. 2007.
-Fixed bug with changing colors in IE
-Some code optimization done
v1.9.5 - Nov 26. 2007.
-Fixed bugs with stripping html tags and "/me" action
v1.9.6 - Nov 29. 2007.
-New: ChatBox Search
-New: Click on message icon in main box to open message for editing/deletion
-Fixed bug with page navigation
-Minor bug fixes/code improvements
v1.9.7 - Dec 01. 2007.
-New: Find first unread message
-New: Find your last message
-New: Find last message by user X
v1.9.8 - Dec 05. 2007.
-New: Ban certain BB tags from being used in the ChatBox
-New feature in user messages view: "Locate this message in Archive"
-New: Message icons in Main box now opens Archive where requested message is highlighted
-New in "Top Chatters": Click on number to view chatter messages
-New in "My Messages": Click on number to view your own messages
-Fixed bug where space after username is lost in "/me" action message
v1.9.9 - Dec 06. 2007.
-New: Users with post count less than X can not view ChatBox
-New: Log/view/resolve IP addresses in CB messages
-Fixed bug with searching last message by user X
v2.0 - Apr 30. 2008.
-New: "Locate message in Archive" option in search results
-CSRF protection added
-Compatible with vBulletin 3.7 Gold (may not work with Beta/RC releases)
v2.1 - Jun 24. 2008.
-Fixed bug (users always shown using their primary group display parameters)
-Fixed bug (if there are whitespaces in banned tags setting it will not work properly)
-You can now choose which usergroups are able to moderate ChatBox (not just switch between 5/6/7)
-"Below Forums" added to auto-insert locations (ForumHome only)
-New: Option to disable parsing of manually entered smilie codes
-New: Disable message time in ChatBox (Archive not affected)
-New: Submit button added
-New: Option to change text size (display)
-New: Option to set width of [code], [php] and [html] BB code blocks in ChatBox
-New: Limit message lenght
-Several minor bug fixes/code improvements
v2.2 - Jul 10. 2008.
-New: auto-hiding Status bar to inform you about ChatBox activities
-Improved ChatBox performance
-Improved char counter compatibility/look
v2.3 - Sep 22. 2008.
-Fixed XSS vulnerability in ChatBox Search
-Improved Tags Banning feature
-Fixed bug (user can add forbidden tags by editing already posted message)
-Fixed bug (user blocked by low post count can access ChatBox on separate page if url is known)
-Fixed bug (page shifting on refresh in IE)
-Fixed bug (Smilies menu breaks row on expand in Opera)
-Minor bug fixes

MARK AS INSTALLED to get support and updates.

[highlander56]

Nice mod!
In installing this, first on a sandboxed version of our forum, I have been able to sucessfully install the product.
However, in trying to enable to moderation capability, I do not see the Ban User, etc sections in the Chat Archive drop down. I've included the relevant groups who can mod in the list of who can mod area in the Chat setup
Also, when I do a test with a test member, and then place that member in the banned list of chatters, he is still able to post in the chat.
Any ideas what may need to be done? Using, vB 3.7.4.

[hermoine22]

does this mod work for 3.8.5 cause the other version for 3.8 is the same and it does not work its just keeps saying loading?

[93Corvette]

Originally Posted by hermoine22

does this mod work for 3.8.5 cause the other version for 3.8 is the same and it does not work its just keeps saying loading?

It doesn't work on 3.8 either. It just keeps saying "Loading".... However, after reading this thread https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...177552&page=49 which is post #722 posted in the 3.7 cybchatbox (this thread) section writting by lard007 at 23 Oct 2008 17:45 fixes the problem....

This is what I found with the 3.8.x version....
Goto Style Manager>your style> edit templates> double click on Cybernetec-templates
Edit the templates and before all misc.php? add the words $vboptions[bburl]/ so your will go from:
misc.php
to $
vboptions[bburl]/misc.php?

These are the templates that Chatboxes uses....
Cybernetec Templates
cyb_chatbox - 17 changes
cyb_chatbos_archive_bit - 3 changes
cyb_chatbox_bit - 1 (however it's already done, so no change)
cyb_chatbox_topchatter_bit - 1 change
cyb_subforummanager - 0 no misc.php
cyb_topstats_blogs - 0 no misc.php
cyb_topstats_classads - 0 no misc.php
cyb_topstats_hottest - 0 no misc.php
cyb_topstats_infractions - 0 no misc.php
cyb_topstats_lastestnews - 0 no misc.php
cyb_topstats_member - 0 no misc.php
cyb_topstats_mostviewed - 0 no misc.php
cyb_topstats_newposts - 0 no misc.php
cyb_topstats_php - 0 no misc.php
cyb_topstats_poster - 0 no misc.php
cyb_topstats_referrer - 0 no misc.php
cyb_topstats_reputation - 0 no misc.php
cyb_topstats_starter - 0 no misc.php
cyb_topstats_stats - 2 (however it's already done, so no change)
cyb_topstats_thanks - 0 no misc.php
cyb_topstats_topforums - 0 no misc.php
cyb_topstats_turnon - 1 (however it's already done, so no change)

[haytham]

Working perfectly on 3.8.5. Actually, never had a problem with it. Strange!

[john2k]

Does anyone else notice the chatbox archive attracting a very large number of bots?

I'm not sure what causes it, but I often have thousands of bots viewing my chatbox archive. Yesterday it was more than 7,000 showing up in the 'currently active users' section, which I have set to the default vB timeout of 15 minutes. I don't even know if they are all bots to tell you the truth.

The IPs are all over the place, from many different networks, and are scattered all over the world. Some IPs are for actual websites... so I imagine either the website or their servers are connecting/scanning my chatbox archive for some odd reason. Other IPs appear to be for legitimate ISP customers and still others I did notice appear to be spiders (but most that I checked did were not spiders).

The suspect IPs do not appear to be loading javascript since my javascript stats tracker doesn't report them in the visitor totals. I figure this means that they are all bots/spiders of some sort that do not read/load javascript.

This isn't a new thing, either. It's been going on for quite some time. Yesterday it got to the point of slowing down my server due to the 7000+ bots (of whatever) that were concurrently connected based on the vB 900 second timeout.

I just cleared my chatbox archive and will be seeing about locking it down so that only members can view it.

Anyhow, just wanted to see if other people using this mod are having similar issues...

[Barteh]

I've had the archive locked down from day 1 so I can't confirm it myself, but several people have been reporting that in the 3.8 thread too. Anyway, pointer on how to block guests from the archive also there: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1866133

[Matrixthestar]

thanks alot
but when i install it and user want to post link in the chat box...it doesn't appear
how can i solve it please

[geckoz]

I'd like to see an "Ignore"-function for this. Also I would like to have "private room" features! What do you think ?

[persianpros]

Persian Language For ChatBox

By Persian Prince

Good Luck

[Bester]

Hi,
I've got quite a weird problem, the chatbox does NOT show the time of sent messages.

See this



Any ideas?