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.

[Zidane007nl]

When I overwrite chatbox.php with the new one (1.1) I'm getting a database error:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM chatbox ORDER BY dateline ASC LIMIT 0,;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1

[GBSteve]

that comma is killing you.

LIMIT 0,;

[Zidane007nl]

Yeah, but when I remove the comma from the query it doens't show any shouts.

[Dream]

Did you update the product file?

[Dream]

Originally Posted by Patria

Suggestion: After WOL support you could maybe add the option to show the people who are chatting on the frontpage (Forumhome).

Thanks!

That?s interesting, but I think it should be done as an add-on. I?ll give it more thought after I release the update of this mod.

[Dream]

Originally Posted by MelH

Is it possible for users to delete their own shouts? If so how is that activated?

If not is there a way of doing it?

There?s no way to do that currently. I?ll see in adding that in the next version.

[Dream]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Hi Dream ....

I also added the optional part to the NavBar so it appears up there. I notice now that when I open the forums page, the "chatbox" is open for business. If I close it, leave the page, then return, it's open again. Is there anyway to have it retain the last setting (open or closed) that the user left it at?

Thanks

Regards,
Badger

I?m talking to you over PMs.

[Dream]

Updated, version 1.2

Added option to let users delete their own messages.

Added option to show username links with user group colors. Note this may raise resource usage.

Added WOL support.

Added option to change the HTML tag used around usernames.

Added smilies!

Let me know how this works out for you.

[snoop1979]

love this hack thanks, is there a way to put it in all forums (not one for each forum)

[Dream]

You can try to add the code in "chatbox below navbar.txt" in the navbar template.