Version: 2.0, by Dream
Developer Last Online: Sep 2010
Category: Chat Modifications -
Version: 3.6.8
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Released: 11-06-2006
Last Update: 08-13-2007
Installs: 381
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Re-useable Code Additional Files
No support by the author.
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
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.
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great hack just installed it on my board workin fine, have a question though i have alot of smilies like over 300 and i dont want all of them to show in chat box.Is there a way that i can make a seperate folder with certain smilies? if it is then where do i have to do changes. like right now the smilies path is default to images/smilies. I will appreciate your help and for sure its going for nomination, thnx
you would need to edit chatbox.php... are all your smiles in images/smilies?
Hi,
I've installed the chatbox today (vb3.6.5) and set everything up as good as I can but for some reason the changes for the box height don't have an effect... I've seen there's a var in the template for it but somethings not right - chatbx itself works fine good work.
I couldn't find a var in the php file either... but then again I have no clue about codeing
any help appreciated
EDIT: found the code on page 9 in this thread to insert in the chatbox template to fix the lenght
changing it through the vb-options would be preferd thouh
EDIT2: would it be possible to set the lenght according to the messages... i.e. if I say display 10 messages per page the box will be as long as it needs be to display all 10 (despite them being all one liners or loads of text)?
There's an option to show the text input and pages on the bottom.
On the height problem, sorry I don't know what may be happening... may be a problem with running vba. Try changing the plugin hook to global, not sure each one.
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09-18-2007, 06:52 PM
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good work.
