vB Shoutbox 1.0

Well, people wanted it, so here it is: a vB-integrated Shoutbox. It's a little different than the one they used to have on this site, however. The moderation functions are VERY basic...but they'll be improved for 2.0, most likely, if there's any interest.

A short breakdown:

• It's a chatroom-esque page that everyone can use.
• Shouts that day, shouts in last 24 hours, shouts by YOU, and total shouts, are all tracked.
• Leaderboard (top shouters) is tracked.
• Clickable smilies automatically added below the add shout box.
• "delete" link shown on all shouts if you're an admin or a moderator (usergroupids 5, 6, and 7 by default).
• bbCode parsing included.

Attached is an archive containing all the files you'll need for the basic installation, AND for the optional features. NOTE: the vBHacker compatible file included within does NOT constitute a full installation. You'll still need to upload the shoutbox.php file to your main forums directory.

Enjoy. Here's a live demo: http://www.movieforums.net/shoutbox.php

[TWTCommish]

It only adds one query to my mainpage.

[Mickie D]

i must be wrong m8 ... i only have 22 i used to have 19 b4

what it was i was installing a few hacks i thought i checked through them each time i must have forgot to test the queries after each hack

sorry i only wanted to help the barhopper fella... jsut thought i would ask at the same time

[phill2003]

fantastic m8 i put it into the vbhome light home page instead of forum home and it looks fabaroony

thanks very much.....

[XP Kid 86]

odd .. everything works but when i click on Shout Now! it goes to

http://www.expeditiousworld.com/shoutbox.php

and it should go to

http://www.expeditiousworld.com/forum/shoutbox.php

and i thought maybe it would post it .. but it never registared the shout .. so i really have a ussles thing here lol .. anyone help me?

- Speedy

[XP Kid 86]

bump anyone have any ideas?

[XP Kid 86]

bump once again .. any help anyone

[WEForums]

In the "shoutbox_postshout" template, change this:

<form action="/shoutbox.php" method="post" name="vbform">

To this:

<form action="shoutbox.php" method="post" name="vbform">

Not sure if it'll work because I do not have this hack installed.

[proxyMX]

Having trouble displaying on my Index.php page,

Just dosent appear,
Oh well, ive linked to it all the same.

[XP Kid 86]

thanks man worked like a charm .. now alls i have to fix is that RPG battlin hack i insalled .. damn lots of little errors lol.

- Speedy

[Smelly Fed]

We added this to our forums at http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/...n/index.php?s=

We customized it a bit, as you'll see. We added a feature so our users can Expand or Collapse the shoutbox in case they feel its intrusive. Incidentally, the shoutbox defaults to collapsed for non-registered guests. For registered users it will expand to 5 shouts, if of course they hit Expand.

We also reformatted the text a bit.

All in all we think it turned out very well. Thanks for the great hack.