vB Chatbox 1.2.4

What this hack does : Adds a box on top of your vB home page
where all members can chat/shout in an IRC like way, with all the
vB options added (smilies, vBcodes....)

I started this hack by modifying the shoutbox made by Doug
Tanner for phpnuke (i think).. And it went far far from his original
code. As far as i think he wouldn't recognize it .

I integrated it as far as i could with vB, and in the admin CP,
with every bit of it being possible to modify trough the admin
CP (prune, ban, censure...)...

SCREENSHOT

This hack has been tested and used by some people out
there in france .

1.2.4 changes :
Install problems with the mysql reserved words solved,
Uninstalling option added to the install script,
Possibility to automaticaly add the templates to the
templatesets you chose in the install script,
IE6 problem with divs solved,
timezoneoffset mod integrated,
text input limited to 255 characters.

1.2.3 changes :
security hole on the pruning of the admin part fixed.

1.2.2 changes :
templatesused var filled with all templates used by the
script in the shoutbox.php file and in the index.php file.
And chmod 777 made on the admin/shoutbox_config.php file
by the install script. Thanks to erwin

Name changed from shoutbox to chatbox, because some people
thought of this hack as related with TWT-commish's shoutbox...
no more excuses


Here is some sort of [high]FAQ[/high] from all the thread,
hope this helps, and prevents you from reading all that i just read :

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Erwin : limit of smilies a person can post in the shoutbox.
This is to prevent smilie spamming : HERE
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Erwin : Another tip for installers - instead of manually having to
ban users in the shoutbox, to automatically ban users who
you have already banned from the forums : HERE
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For the shoutbox to be in a popup : HERE
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To have 5 'shouts/chats' visible when the chatbox is reduced :
HERE
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SpeedStreet : This simply creates a link for people to click on so
that they can easily view the 'Who's Online' page without
having to dig for it : HERE
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ThoughtDiver: if you want the date format on the shout timestamps
to read Month/Day instead of Day/Month : HERE
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[Dennis B]

p0s3id0n,

Can I force the reduced mode? I thought of this to (1) save bandwidth and (2) merge the chatbox into my welcome panel.

Merci.

[Dennis B]

Never mind... I just realized that in reduced mode users can't chat at all... I'll figure out how to customize the big box. Sorry.

[p0s3id0n]

for the first one, i just anwsered :

@ DOTS : look at the chatbox template, you just need to
change the width parameter of the iframe tag.

and to have the chatbox reduced by default, the simplest way
would be to execute the following query :

ALTER TABLE user CHANGE chatbox chatbox TINYINT( 4 ) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL

and maybe if you want to switch all your members to a reduced
chatbox execute also the folowing query :

UPDATE user SET chatbox = 0

~~edit~~
you're welcolme

[Dennis B]

Would new members get the reduced chatbox by default as well...?

[Dennis B]

p0s3id0n,

It seems like the iframe doesn't like to be inserted into a table... When I tried to put $chatbox inside one of my welcome panel's tables it just got all over the other stuff... Any hints...?

Thanks.

[Dennis B]

Made it work... just removed the <center> tags... I promise I'll try stuff first and ask questions later from now on...

[p0s3id0n]

yes with the query i gave you, new members will have the
reduced chatbox by default...

As for the chatbox all wrong inside a table.... it must depend on
your table's parameters : width, height, nowrap, rows, cells.......

~~edit~~
nice to read it works ...

[Dennis B]

Oh, it's a major add-on to my forum, members have been asking for it. Congrats for the great work.

[Dennis B]

p0s3id0n,

If you want to check out the final result, take a look here. Very nice.

Is it possible to make the reduced version diplay the last 3 posts instead of just the very last one?

Thanks,

[Erwin]

Today at 08:30 AM Dennis B said this in Post #260
Is it possible to make the reduced version diplay the last 3 posts instead of just the very last one?

Read this thread - the solution to this has been posted.