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.

[LBmtb]

Very nice. Installed with no issues.

edit: nevermind there was an issue. After the install I couldn't upload attachments even though I have the quota at 0 (no quota). Disabled chatbox and attachment uploads worked fine again so I completely uninstalled chatbox.

Any idea why this happened?

[Dream]

Uhm no. Aren't you in two usergroups, one with 0 quota and another with maximum quota?

[LBmtb]

Originally Posted by Dream

Uhm no. Aren't you in two usergroups, one with 0 quota and another with maximum quota?

Ah yes . . .didn't realize I put myself in so many usergroups. I only checked two but one of the ones I didnt check had a limit. I'll try this again later tonight and let ya know how it goes.

Thanks.

[LBmtb]

Thanks again, works perfectly now. Here's the URL: SocalTrailRiders.org

Any way to bold comments made within the last x minutes?

[Dream]

Looking good

You would have to edit the code, could be a little complicated to do.

[deeoo]

-edit- Spoke too soon. Great mod!
Would be nice to have the shoutbox and the messages seperated so autorefresh won't steal the focus.

[shadow smith]

Any compatibility as a vbAdvanced module?

[mdzcpa]

Thanks for Mod!

Question: What is the easiest way to fix the navbar link on the vb advanced cmps page? The link to chatbox doesn't work from there.

Thanks.

[haytham]

just installed on 3.6.4 with no problems so far..I'd like to be able to include smilies and colored text though..any chance I could? Thanks..the other VB shoutboxes never worked on my VB..no idea why though.

[Knightmane]

Is it possible to run this at the same time as the usual vBShout... say... vBshout on forumhome and chatbox on another of the other forums? I ask because I know you can't have 2 instances of vBshout at the same time. Is this possible?