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.

[TrIn@dOr]

Originally Posted by 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.

Works like a charm, thanks!

I only added a <br /> bellow the last </table>

[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 did not find an uninstall.txt in the zip file.

[Dream]

Uninstall is just uninstall product, delete files, and undo template changes. Just undo everything in install.txt.

[rnmcd]

I decided to skip the uninstall at this time.

But now when I try to import the product-chatbox.xml using the Product Manager I get a db error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.4:

Invalid SQL:
CREATE TABLE chatbox (
`shoutid` INT( 10 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
`userid` INT( 10 ) NOT NULL ,
`username` VARCHAR( 100 ) NOT NULL ,
`shout` VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL ,
`dateline` INT( 10 ) NOT NULL ,
`ipaddress` VARCHAR( 16 ) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY ( `shoutid` )
);;

MySQL Error : Table 'chatbox' already exists
Error Number : 1050

What would you recommend I do so that I can import it?

[Dream]

Manually remove the table chatbox from your database

[raiderlax]

I'm worried too, because I am going to uninstall this, you have said:

Uninstall is just uninstall product, delete files, and undo template changes. Just undo everything in install.txt.

But above you say:

Manually remove the table chatbox from your database

Could you please make full clear uninstall instructions?

Thanks in advance.

[Dream]

He had version 1.0 installed, that's why he has to manually remove the chatbox table. Other than that, just undo everything in the install.txt file.

If you don't know if you have to manually remove the chatbox table, edit your chatbox product and see if you have the uninstall code that drops the chatbox table. Version 1.0 didn't have it because I forgot to add it back then.

[Dream]

Rnmcd, use the attached product file to update your chatbox to 1.9, and then update your files with the files in the chatbox 1.9.zip (if you havent removed the chatbox table)

[rnmcd]

Thanks dream. I manually removed the table "chatbox" from my database and re-imported it and everything seems to work fine now.

Is there a reason I should upgrade to 1.9 if I am pleased with ver. 1.0? Does ver. 1.9 use much more system resources?

Do you keep records of who has donated to you? I can't recall if I have. Can you check?

[Dream]

Version 1.9 has many new features, like AJAX (no page refreshes), smilies popup, and message colors. For a full list check the version history in the first post. System resources actually decrease from version 1.0 to 1.9.

I haven't received any donations from "rnmcd"