Chatbox Lite

This is a very simple shoutbox.

For those of us who don't have the resources to spare for vBShout v2.0.

[high]Installation[/high]
Instructions in the zip.

[Otikeu]

Originally Posted by ARCANE_B0SS

can i use this hack with vb3.5.4 ????????

is there r any risk?????

Yes, it works with 3.5 series. Please use correct english next time. Thank you.

[UDPride]

This is an awesome hack thanks. A couple stupid questions because Im stupid:

Where does all the chat get stored? Are there ways to define how much chat to keep in the chat history when someone views it? And ways to completely purge it? Ways to limit how much can be stored in it?

Im just thinking from a maintenance/server usage perspective. Thanks.

[UDPride]

Ive also noticed after several minutes a person logged in to the board who posts in the chatbox get named "Unregistered". They log back in and are their own nick for a while. Its like theres a timeout or something.

[05:40 AM] Unregistered X: test
[05:33 AM] Chris R X: weird
[05:24 AM] Unregistered X: back to unregistered - there must be a timeout causing this - i am still logged in
[05:24 AM] Unregistered X: clock looks better now - already "sprung" forward
[05:02 AM] ud69 X: dont forget we spring forward tonight
[05:02 AM] ud69 X: why is the clock off?
[05:01 AM] ud69 X: ok now
[05:01 AM] ud69 X: not it shows correctly
[05:01 AM] ud69 X: did so
[04:35 AM] Administrator X: log out and back in

Any way to fix this?

[UDPride]

anybody with any ideas?

edit: oops. I think I found the variables in the php file. I decreased the refresh fro 300 seconds to 60.

That didnt seem to solve the problem though it does refresh after 1 minute. After nine minutes I got another "unregistered" even though Im still logged in:

[12:41 AM] Unregistered: yyy
[12:32 AM] Chris R: rat
[12:28 AM] Chris R: BOING
[12:26 AM] Chris R: Another test
[04-02-2006 10:38 PM] Unregistered: tt
[04-02-2006 10:37 PM] Unregistered: test
[04-02-2006 10:22 PM] Unregistered: another test
[04-02-2006 10:05 PM] Chris R: Idle test
[04-02-2006 08:03 PM] Chris R: oo
[04-02-2006 07:54 PM] Chris R: works?

As you can see at 12:32am I was logged in. At 12:41am I posted as "Unregistered." Ive also noticed that is physically logs you out of the message board. I go to another page on the message board and Im no longer logged in. This was never the case before this hack.

I wish I knew why this was happening.

[rareclownfish]

is this working on 3.5.4?

[bashy]

Hi peeps

I know its been mentioned but....
Any chance on getting this to work with AJAX please?

[UDPride]

ive got ti working on 3.5.4 but the chatbox will log you out after 10-15min if you arent logged into the board with a "remember me".

[Burley]

Does anybody know a way to remove the time/date indication from the shoutbox?

The same go's for the horizontal scrolling, anyway to remove that?

[bashy]

Hi

How do you mass delete shouts or pages please?

[Diae]

I have this working on 3.5.4, but for some reason I can't see the text in the text input field.... any ideas? It's working, and the text shows in the shoutbox, but not where I'm typing....