vB Shoutbox 1.0

Well, people wanted it, so here it is: a vB-integrated Shoutbox. It's a little different than the one they used to have on this site, however. The moderation functions are VERY basic...but they'll be improved for 2.0, most likely, if there's any interest.

A short breakdown:

• It's a chatroom-esque page that everyone can use.
• Shouts that day, shouts in last 24 hours, shouts by YOU, and total shouts, are all tracked.
• Leaderboard (top shouters) is tracked.
• Clickable smilies automatically added below the add shout box.
• "delete" link shown on all shouts if you're an admin or a moderator (usergroupids 5, 6, and 7 by default).
• bbCode parsing included.

Attached is an archive containing all the files you'll need for the basic installation, AND for the optional features. NOTE: the vBHacker compatible file included within does NOT constitute a full installation. You'll still need to upload the shoutbox.php file to your main forums directory.

Enjoy. Here's a live demo: http://www.movieforums.net/shoutbox.php

[Mr L]

Hi,

I wonder if anybody can help with this great hack!

I have some users that are actually using the "Shoutbox" as a chatroom! Intresting reading but it is really annoying some other members.

Can I restrict users from posting if their user ID is X or Y?

Thanks.

[TWTCommish]

Sure. Right BEFORE this...

  if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 10 && $action == 'delete' && $shoutid) {
    $DB_site->query("DELETE FROM shoutbox WHERE shoutid = $shoutid");
    header("Location: shoutbox.php");
  }

...add this...

  if ($bbuserinfo[userid] == X || $bbuserinfo[userid] == Y) {
    header("Location: index.php");
  }

Replace X and Y with the userids you want to block, and those users will just be redirected back to the board's index when they try to load the Shoutbox.

[Mr L]

Surperb! Thank you for this and also the extremely quick response!

[Wildthinks]

the problem is still going on...anybody can help me?
I have create a account
User: guestvb
PW:guestvb ,

so you can try it. :bunny: :dead:
Plz help me...

Originally posted by Wildthinks
On my Opera works fine, but when I use mozilla or IE (6.x) ... after click "shout now" I get a Dowenloadbox for Shoutbox.php and in mozilla I see cryptical text...
any hints, whats wrong?

try it here: http://swishzone.net/vb/shoutbox.php

[Dyntheos]

First up love this hack.

some problems Iam experiencing.

1) Smilies. I have tried all the suggestions in this thread to fix them but the bbcode for smilies does not work. all other bbcodes do though, so you can post images using [img] and that's how members are posting smilies at the moment.

2) The width of the text in the output box when posted only stretches half the screen yet you can lengthen, down the page, the output through a post, to basically stretch the forum in length. Currently the box is at the bottom of the forums due to this.

What I would like to do is add it to the top but have it only take up half the width of the page, and have the length of a post limited in its display, possobly using a scrollbar to view it all.

I have my users browsing the forums at the top of the page and would like to have that and the shoutbox side by side in their own category, yet the length of the shout box limited on the forum home, so as it won't screw with the formatting.

any ideas?


My forums are here http://forums.relicnews.com/

It's only visible on the "purplehaze" skin tho as we're testing it out at the moment. The quickskin selector is at the bottom of the forumhome to view the shoutbox.

[Dyntheos]

gah I have the smilies working but I have html code popping out everywhere

[edit]

w00t fixed the code aswell.

in the previous post that stated too add this

$shout_text = bbcodeparse($shout_text,X);

above this

eval("\$shoutbits .= \"".gettemplate("shoutboxbit",1,0)."\";");

I did this exactly.

what fixed it was to actually replace the instance of

$shout_text = bbcodeparse($shout_text);

above this code (some lines above) with

$shout_text = bbcodeparse($shout_text,X);

In essence I was basically duplicating a line of code instead of replacing it.

[/edit]

[Dyntheos]

sorry for all these follow up posts but Iam still trying to work this out.

when i posted above i was only refreshing the actual shoutbox page.

all is working fine there, iam not getting smilies to show in the forum home display.

[Bugz]

TWTCommish on your forums shout box your colors and backgrounds are perfect with your forum but when i installed this the colors and back grounds wernt at all right with the rest of the forums i have inserted a pick of your shout box.

[Bugz]

mine as i stated before are messed up

like the cats bagrounds and the borders and cfont colors. i was wondering if you can post the fixes to this if not i will end up figuring it out after awhile

heres a pick of mine i circled whats wrong with it

[TWTCommish]

Well there's nothing to be fixed really: vB Shoutbox uses YOUR settings and colors for categories and table headers to create its look and feel. It's all in the templates.

Dyntheos: replace the "X" with a number of one of your forums, bud.