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.

[rutch]

Question ! Can I use 1.7 with no Ajak

[BadgerDog]

Upgraded.... thanks ... :up:

I put your GIF file in /images/smilies....

I typed /me :lol: and I don't get anything except the text the way I typed it. Where should it go and I'm not quite sute the value of the /me function, since you already support "clicking" on smilies anyway?

Thanks for the on-going development. Nice product....

Regards,
Badger

[Sir_Yaro]

Originally Posted by Dream

I'll look into making a product file compatible with 3.5.

Thank you very much. I bother u about it cause i'm sick of vBShout. It has no support (or damn shity) and require so much resorses and bandwidth. Over 20GB per month in my case !!!

[arco]

[high]I like! [/high]

Though I had to activate the Create $chatboxheight plugin, and move it to global_start to make it work for the vBa module.

Here's the updated module that uses the new $chatboxheight setting.

[arco]

Originally Posted by rutch

Question ! Can I use 1.7 with no Ajak

I believe not. Use 1.3 for no Ajax.

[auctionguy]

I have either ver. 1.3 or 1.5. To upgrade, do I just import the Poduct XML and upload the chatbox.php??

[Dream]

Originally Posted by rutch

Question ! Can I use 1.7 with no Ajak

no

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Upgraded.... thanks ... :up:

I put your GIF file in /images/smilies....

I typed /me :lol: and I don't get anything except the text the way I typed it. Where should it go and I'm not quite sute the value of the /me function, since you already support "clicking" on smilies anyway?

Thanks for the on-going development. Nice product....

Regards,
Badger

You need to add the lol.gif as a smilie in your AdminCP

Originally Posted by auctionguy

I have either ver. 1.3 or 1.5. To upgrade, do I just import the Poduct XML and upload the chatbox.php??

yes

[Dream]

Can anyone confirm this works in 3.6.6? I'm going to wait a few days to upgrade my board.

[arco]

I have not upgraded to 3.6.6 yet, but will probably do in a couple of days. Just hopes nothing breaks.

[Dream]

3.6.6 has some major changes in vB's javascripts.

I just use one vB javascript function in this mod, maybe two, there should be no reason to change their behaviors though, but we never know.