Chat Modifications - Dream's Chatbox

This adds a Chatbox in your forum home page.

Here's how it works: every 5 minutes the chatbox asks the server if there are new messages. You can change this 5 minutes to any number of seconds you want, but the lower you go the more server resources the chatbox uses.

Features:
- AJAX
- Pages
- Change refresh rate
- Hide chatbox content from chosen usergroups
- Set usergroups that can't send messages
- Set moderator usergroups that can delete messages
- Can disable auto refresh for guests
- Prune messages by user ID, user name, days old or all messages
- Enable smilies, bbcode and/or [ img ]
- Automatic URL parsing
- Option for users to delete own messages
- Smilies popup with all smilies you can use
- Who's Online Support
- User names uses usergroup colors
- Ban Users
- /me code
- Message colors
- and more

This mod is final, no new features will be added.

[Kaelon]

Works beautifully with vB 3.7 Beta 4. Very nicely done, Dream. I love the simplicity and elegance of it.

[Kaelon]

Update: So, I have found a problem. I want to disable the Chatbox's use for non-subscribers. Subscriptions in vBulletin typically add a user to a secondary usergroup. However, if I prevent a primary usergroup from using the Chatbox, no matter what secondary usergroup they are added to, they are still prevented from entering text in the Chatbox.

Help!

[gwerzal]

Thanks!

Just installed and added it as a Vba module and there both working perfectly.

Cheers man

[metin]

mm nice thanx

[Kaelon]

Originally Posted by Kaelon

Update: So, I have found a problem. I want to disable the Chatbox's use for non-subscribers. Subscriptions in vBulletin typically add a user to a secondary usergroup. However, if I prevent a primary usergroup from using the Chatbox, no matter what secondary usergroup they are added to, they are still prevented from entering text in the Chatbox.

Help!

Any thoughts on this, Dream?

[Mark.B]

I am not sure the refresh button works properly on this version....If I post a shout on one account and then, on another PC with a different accoutn press the refresh button, it doesn't bring the new shout up.

I've tried it with "get all new shouts" both enabled and disabled tono avail.

[ramsayeg]

This is exactly what I was after .Thank you very much for the hard work!

[powerful_rogue]

Dream,

Just a quick question! How come you no longer wish to develop this mod and add further features?

Just out of curiosty!

[Dream]

Because I use this on my own website, and it fits my needs. Also it already has a lot of features, and I don't wish to work on this anymore that is needed.

There are many different chatboxes to choose from too if you need more features. I don't think chatboxes should do and be so complicated as some are today though.

[powerful_rogue]

Hi Dream.

When I had this installed on 3.6.7 I managed to have it in the "Whats Going On" section, however for the 3.7 version I cant seem to find the template edits to place it there.

I know this is un-supported, but could you help please!

Thanks

Dave