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.

[eurofunny]

Okay thx for your quick answer.....When Guest post is there a way that the guest has a number below Guest

[Dream]

What text would you like to be posted every hour?

What do you mean by guest number?

If you mean a visitor number that's not possible, sorry. vBulletin doesn't keep a count of visitors.

[eurofunny]

Originally Posted by Dream

What text would you like to be posted every hour?

What do you mean by guest number?

If you mean a visitor number that's not possible, sorry.

What text would you like to be posted every hour? mhmm Hello at My-CheckPoint.de or what ever

[Dream]

I will try to make the cron files you requested

Check this thread back later.

[ge66]

Thank you for this Chatbox!

How about a pop-up for vBcode and [IMG] or something else to help people to fill in the vBcodes?

[Dream]

Maybe, I would have to think this through.

[Mark.B]

I will happily release the cron file I made to prune the shoutbox, I just need to wait 48 hours so I know for certain it still works with the newest release.

It is very basic though and is hard coded to 48 hours....whilst that can be changed quite easily, it may be possible for someone to write an admin option into the hack to make this user-configurable.

Bit beyond my rather basic skills though that....all my cron is is a lift of some code from the original hack, placed into a php file.

[Dream]

No problem, I'll see how the other vB cron files work and make some for this mod, thanks Mark.

[Dream]

eurofunny, see if these work for you, the instructions are in cron.txt

[eurofunny]

Originally Posted by Dream

eurofunny, see if these work for you, the instructions are in cron.txt

Many thx for this.

At the autopost-test comes this error

Chatbox Auto-Post

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/www/checkpoint/includes/cron/chatbox_autopost.php on line 18