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.

[Ryan Ashbrook]

Hi Dream,

First off, I think your plugin is amazing. It works wonders and I especially love the use of AJAX.

However, my question is, what are your plans concerning the use of Ignore Lists?

My users have been complaining lately because the Chatbox does not honor the Ignore List.

I have plans to implement this myself, however I was wondering if you also had plans to add this in.

Thanks!

[Dream]

Hello Ryan, I don't plan on improving this mod anymore. But anyone is welcome to do so, and re-release it if they so wish.

[Ryan Ashbrook]

Thanks for clarifying.

I may yet take you up on that (improving and re-releasing) if time permits.

[GateKeper]

Any thoughts or suggestions ?

Originally Posted by GateKeper

ok no more error message, but we are finding a big time lag, even though the refresh rate was set to 0 and or 3 , and or 5 seconds, members are telling us it take up to a minute to get the message, any ideas, and no our server is not the issue, but I have noticed that this really started once we went to 3.7.0, prior to that release, no lag at all

Any thoughts ?

[F0xy]

is there no way to completely remove the chatbox for groups not allow to view it. at the minte guests see a big box with 'You don't have permission to see the Chatbox.' wrote on it which isn't exactly pleasing on the eye.

[LCN2007]

1st off great mod im a fan of alot of your code Dream.
Is there a way to display on all pages? Also how do i change the font size its so tiny.
Is their a way to add the date and or users in chat?

Sorry for all the questions

[LCN2007]

Anyone?

[nick-harper]

Originally Posted by F0xy

is there no way to completely remove the chatbox for groups not allow to view it. at the minte guests see a big box with 'You don't have permission to see the Chatbox.' wrote on it which isn't exactly pleasing on the eye.

<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, x, c)">
<!-- Chatbox -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
	<thead>
	<tr>
		<td class="tcat"><a style="float:right" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_chatbox')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_chatbox" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_chatbox].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="javascript:openChatbox()">$vbphrase[chatbox_chatbox]</a></td>
	</tr>
	</thead>
	<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_chatbox" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_chatbox]">
	<tr>
		<td class="alt1" width="100%" colspan="2"><div class="smallfont" align="center"><iframe src="chatbox.php?nofocus=1" width="100%"$chatboxheight style="border: 0px" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td>
	</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>
<br />
<!-- / Chatbox -->
<else />

    
</if>

That does the trick, change the Red letters to the numbers of the usergroups you want to see it

[nureeves]

Thanks so much for your hardwork Dreams

Warm regard from Jakarta

[sdsvtdriver]

Thanks for the simple chatbox.

We received some concerns after we upgraded from the 1.x version from users who use mobile devices as they do not support AJAX.

Is there a simple way to display the Chatbox 1.3 code if AJAX is not supported? Will the Chatbox 1.3 code work with 2.1 as far as the DB is concerned? I saw 2.0 and 1.3 were available for 3.6, but only 2.1 for 3.7.

Thanks