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.

[rnmcd]

Originally Posted by Dream

Uninstall it via the Plug-in and Products manager.

Originally Posted by rnmcd

I uninstalled it via the Plug-in and Products manager but the Chatbox is still working on my site.

Why would that be?

Any ideas Dream?

[Dream]

If you uninstalled it, the chatbox.php should be throwing an error. Can you check if the table "chatbox" is still in your database?

I think theres a file called uninstall.txt in the zip file, follow the instructions there to uninstall.

[rnmcd]

Originally Posted by Dream

If you uninstalled it, the chatbox.php should be throwing an error. Can you check if the table "chatbox" is still in your database?

I think theres a file called uninstall.txt in the zip file, follow the instructions there to uninstall.

I'll do those things your recommended.

My "Manage Products" showed that it was version 1.0.

Does that version have different uninstall procedures?

The only thing that I noticed that happened when I uninstalled it via "Plugins and Products" is that the "Send" & "Refresh" buttons lost their text.

[Deimos]

Originally Posted by barny11

I know this has been asked before by somebody else but cant find any answer to it.

When you collapse chat and then refresh the page or change pages the chat pops back open.

Is there a way to stop that ?

I have the same problem
Anyone know of a way to make it SAVE?

[SuperTaz]

Very nice. Installed.

[TrIn@dOr]

Ok time to ask, if i want to put chatbox under navbar, it will not maintain collapsed, instead yes on the bottom of the forumhome!

How can be this?

I saw http://www.bowlandcentral.com/forum/ and chatbox is maintains collapsed after refreshing!!

HELP?

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by TrIn@dOr

Ok time to ask, if i want to put chatbox under navbar, it will not maintain collapsed, instead yes on the bottom of the forumhome!

How can be this?

I saw http://www.bowlandcentral.com/forum/ and chatbox is maintains collapsed after refreshing!!

HELP?

I and many others have exactly the same problem. I've tried everything and it still comes back up OPEN when you return the the Main Forum page. It stays closed properly when installed at the bottom of the forum, but not at the top.

If you ever figure out how to get it to do that, I'd be interested in the secret. :up:

Regards,
Badger

[TrIn@dOr]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

I and many others have exactly the same problem. I've tried everything and it still comes back up OPEN when you return the the Main Forum page. It stays closed properly when installed at the bottom of the forum, but not at the top.

If you ever figure out how to get it to do that, I'd be interested in the secret. :up:

Regards,
Badger

Originally Posted by TrIn@dOr

http://www.bowlandcentral.com/forum/

This guys have it working properly!!, they can help us!

[nureeves]

Great Mod

anyway, is it posible to change background colour off the chatbox

[Deimos]

For those having problems with the chatbox not staying minimized when in the navbar, try using this code

<!-- Chatbox -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tbody>
	<tr>
		<td class="thead" colspan="2">
			<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_chatboxtop')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_chatboxtop" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_chatboxtop].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="#" onclick="return openChatbox()">$vbphrase[chatbox_chatbox]</a> (To shrink this chatbox, click the small + to the right ---->)</td>
		</tr>
	</thead>
	<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_chatboxtop" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_chatboxtop]">
		<tr>
			<td class="alt1" width="100%" colspan="2"><div class="smallfont" align="center"><iframe src="chatbox.php?nofocus=1" width="100%"$chatboxheight style="border: 0px" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>
<!-- / Chatbox -->

Works for me.