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Dion Dev Shoutbox v2.0 (uses AJAX) · **Released**: 04-01-2009

Preview:

http://www.diondev.com/vb

Screenshots:

(see attached)

Features:

- Uses AJAX so new shouts show up without the page having to be refreshed
- Set the title and other language features to anything you want
- Will ignore empty shouts, and ones that are being repeated one after the other
- Enter how many shouts you want it to show
- Enter how many days you want it to store shouts in the database (even forever)
- Enable or disable guest shouting
- Members names are linked to their profile pages
- Admins can delete shouts directly through the shoutbox itself
- A fully customizable shout archive with pagination
- Works with any custom theme automatically
- Parses BBcode, smilies, and images if you allow it to
- Installation takes about 5 minutes and is all done through the admin CP
- You can even modify the amount of time it waits in between checking for new shouts
- Plus lots more!

Installation instructions:

1.a) Extract the "ddshoutbox2.zip" file onto your computer using a program like winrar, or winzip

2. Log in to your admin CP, everything will be done within here

3.a) Go to Plugins & Products -> Manage Products
3.b) Click on the "[Add/Import Product]" link
3.c) Browse for the "product-ddsb2.xml" file
3.d) Click on the "Import" button

4. Upload all the ".js" and ".php" files into your main vbulletin directory (the same directory as index.php)

5 Decide where you want the shoutbox on your site (I recommend the top of your forum index)

If you want the shoutbox at the top of your forum index, go to the "FORUMHOME" template, find:
"
<br />
</if>"
Copy and paste the contents of "template.txt" underneath.

If you want it at the top of every page, go to the "navbar" template, find:
"
<br />"
Copy and paste the contents of "template.txt" underneath.

6.a) Go to vBulletin Options -> vBulletin Options
6.b) Select "Dion Dev Shoutbox v2.0 Options"
6.c) Click on the "Edit Settings" button
6.d) Edit all of the values as you desire
6.e) Click on the "Save" button

Additional options:

1. If you want to change the time in which it checks for new shouts, open up "shoutshow.js" with notepad, find "timeint = 2000" at the top of the file, and change "2000" to the time (in milliseconds) you want it to wait before checking for new shouts. 1 second equals 1000 milliseconds. If you want shouts to show up faster, set it to a lower number. If you are worried about server load, set it higher. Don't forget to upload it to your server after you change it so the new timer takes effect.

2. You can edit the shoutbox width and height by changing the iframe width="100%" and height="200" attributes from the "template.txt" file.

You're done! Please donate anything you can spare to donations@diondev.com before removing my copyright notice.

DionDev · #12 04-02-2009, 07:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ahmed-samara

Ummm good .. but can't read arabic ?

and what is diffrant from the livechat ?

What do you mean, can't read arabic?

Also, what is livechat?

goxy63 · #13 04-02-2009, 08:21 PM

Nominated, rated....thinking about install, but..

How about main page under VBA cmps ?!

Just downloaded and would like this mod on my main page under one of my modules

Any suggestions ?!

Super Jinni · #14 04-02-2009, 08:42 PM

seems good
gonna give it a try and see

thanks mate

TheLastSuperman · #15 04-02-2009, 08:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by goxy63

Nominated, rated....thinking about install, but..

How about main page under VBA cmps ?!

Just downloaded and would like this mod on my main page under one of my modules

Any suggestions ?!

Hey goxy

Did you check his Readme/Install file??

It was in there

Quote:

5. Decide where you want the shoutbox on your site (I recommend the top of your forum index)

If you want the shoutbox at the top of your forum index, go to the "FORUMHOME" template, find:
"
<br />
</if>"
Copy and paste the contents of "template.txt" underneath.

If you want it at the top of every page, go to the "navbar" template, find:
"

<br />"
Copy and paste the contents of "template.txt" underneath.

So basically open up template.txt included in the download and copy the entire code...

PHP Code:


			
<!-- Dion Dev Shoutbox v2.0 -->
<iframe src="shoutbox.php" width="100%" height="200" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0">
Browser does not support iframes
</iframe>
<br /><br />
<!-- end Dion Dev Shoutbox v2.0 -->

Now paste it in any template i.e.

Forum Home for main forum
Forum Display for Subforums etc
Navbar if you find a good spot
Header
Footer
etc
etc

Also note you can change some of the variables i.e. height width etc as seen in the code!

--> width="100%" OR just 900 for px

--> height="200" Same as above but you can increase to 300px by changing to 300 etc etc.

--> frameborder="0" To add a border etc so put in 1 or 2 etc etc.

Enjoy and thanks DionDev for the new Shoutbox for vB owners

S-MAN

Super Jinni · #16 04-02-2009, 08:58 PM

it does not support Arabic language, it gives unknown output characters when input in Arabic.
also, it does not Arabic language direction which is rtl.
see the attachment.

if you can find a workaround it will be really great.
thanks again

Markos · #17 04-02-2009, 09:30 PM

thanks going to test it out

goxy63 · #18 04-02-2009, 10:25 PM

@DionDev
thanks for this nice hack

@TheLastSuperman
Hay mate nice to hear from you

Thanks a lot for details

Would like to pay few rounds of beer, and I hope that once...

Cheers

TheLastSuperman · #19 04-02-2009, 10:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by goxy63

@DionDev
thanks for this nice hack

@TheLastSuperman
Hay mate nice to hear from you

Thanks a lot for details

Would like to pay few rounds of beer, and I hope that once...

Cheers

No prob Goxy

Yeah I was out for a while, a friend was in the hospital then I had some RL issues but spil't milk as they say or shiz happens

but back to the mod, it is nice and useful... some might like another more or less however not all forums need the same shoutbox

so hats off to DionDev eh?

S-MAN

zero5854 · #20 04-02-2009, 11:54 PM

thanks but no thanks too generic looks like that horrible looking one phpbb cam out with a while back

TheLastSuperman · #21 04-03-2009, 12:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zero5854

thanks but no thanks too generic looks like that horrible looking one phpbb cam out with a while back

Well use some of your forums css if using a custom style OR google css, find a good site w/ some tutorials and do something about it

remember what I said, to some this might be all they need.

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