Chat Modifications - Dion Dev Shoutbox v2.0 (uses AJAX)

Preview:

http://www.diondev.com/vb

Screenshots:

(see attached)

Features:

- Uses AJAX so new shouts show up without the page having to be refreshed
- Set the title and other language features to anything you want
- Will ignore empty shouts, and ones that are being repeated one after the other
- Enter how many shouts you want it to show
- Enter how many days you want it to store shouts in the database (even forever)
- Enable or disable guest shouting
- Members names are linked to their profile pages
- Admins can delete shouts directly through the shoutbox itself
- A fully customizable shout archive with pagination
- Works with any custom theme automatically
- Parses BBcode, smilies, and images if you allow it to
- Installation takes about 5 minutes and is all done through the admin CP
- You can even modify the amount of time it waits in between checking for new shouts
- Plus lots more!

Installation instructions:

1.a) Extract the "ddshoutbox2.zip" file onto your computer using a program like winrar, or winzip

2. Log in to your admin CP, everything will be done within here

3.a) Go to Plugins & Products -> Manage Products
3.b) Click on the "[Add/Import Product]" link
3.c) Browse for the "product-ddsb2.xml" file
3.d) Click on the "Import" button

4. Upload all the ".js" and ".php" files into your main vbulletin directory (the same directory as index.php)

5 Decide where you want the shoutbox on your site (I recommend the top of your forum index)

If you want the shoutbox at the top of your forum index, go to the "FORUMHOME" template, find:
"<!-- / guest welcome message -->
<br />
</if>"
Copy and paste the contents of "template.txt" underneath.

If you want it at the top of every page, go to the "navbar" template, find:
"<!-- / nav buttons bar -->
<br />"
Copy and paste the contents of "template.txt" underneath.

6.a) Go to vBulletin Options -> vBulletin Options
6.b) Select "Dion Dev Shoutbox v2.0 Options"
6.c) Click on the "Edit Settings" button
6.d) Edit all of the values as you desire
6.e) Click on the "Save" button

Additional options:

1. If you want to change the time in which it checks for new shouts, open up "shoutshow.js" with notepad, find "timeint = 2000" at the top of the file, and change "2000" to the time (in milliseconds) you want it to wait before checking for new shouts. 1 second equals 1000 milliseconds. If you want shouts to show up faster, set it to a lower number. If you are worried about server load, set it higher. Don't forget to upload it to your server after you change it so the new timer takes effect.

2. You can edit the shoutbox width and height by changing the iframe width="100%" and height="200" attributes from the "template.txt" file.

You're done! Please donate anything you can spare to donations@diondev.com before removing my copyright notice.

[TheInsaneManiac]

can you put the files in their own folder. My ftp is already messy enough.

[Milez]

Dion any chance you will be updating this with mysql's changes and putting it into its own folder soon? Just checking on the status, it's a great mod!

[kyrenator]

works perfect

thanks

[matt691]

thanks installed it yesterday but forgot to mark it.

very good mod thanks

but only one issue so far is that the pound symbol (£) comes up as an A with two dots above it or something similar not sure about other special characters but as this can be a popular one is there a way to fix it?

[DionDev]

Originally Posted by Milez

Dion any chance you will be updating this with mysql's changes and putting it into its own folder soon? Just checking on the status, it's a great mod!

I will be in the near future, I have just been really busy with other things.

Version 2.1 will include some of the hacks posted in this thread, will be in its own folder, and will have a collapsable box style that flows better with the forums.

[stud]

any ETA on that new version?

[DionDev]

Originally Posted by stud

any ETA on that new version?

1-2 weeks.

[m0rgulvale]

i got some weird errors today... any ideas what is wrong? should i do DB repair function or is this not a big deal?

First Error:

Database error in vBulletin :

mysql_connect() [<a href='function.mysql-connect'>function.mysql-connect</a>]: Too many connections
/home/laserpoi/public_html/laser_pointer_forums_3/forum/includes/class_core.php on line 311

MySQL Error :
Error Number :
Request Date : Friday, May 8th 2009 @ 05:22:21 PM
Error Date : Friday, May 8th 2009 @ 05:22:21 PM
Script : http://laserpointerforums.com/laser_.../shoutshow.php
Referrer : http://laserpointerforums.com/laser_...m/shoutdiv.php
IP Address : x.x.x.x
Username :
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :



After that i got more errors like this:


Database error in vBulletin 3.8.2:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(userid)) AS count FROM session WHERE session.userid>0 AND session.lastactivity>1241763334;

MySQL Error : Out of memory (Needed 1048548 bytes)
Error Number : 5
Request Date : Friday, May 8th 2009 @ 05:22:14 PM
Error Date : Friday, May 8th 2009 @ 05:22:23 PM
Script : http://laserpointerforums.com/laser_.../shoutshow.php
Referrer : http://laserpointerforums.com/laser_...m/shoutdiv.php
IP Address : x.x.x.x
Username : asdasdasd
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

[m0rgulvale]

here are mysql and php settings:

PHP Max Post Size 80.00 MB
PHP Maximum Upload Size 40.00 MB
PHP Memory Limit 256.00 MB

MySQL Packet Size 36.00 MB

should i change any of this stuff around?

[computergeek]

I was using the old shoutbox 2 from like 2006 or something. it used a flat file to pull data to the box for the 50 posts. It had almost 0 server load.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=93097

maybe this will help you for the next version.

However i can't confirm it but i think that version is weak on security. Have had to injections to my server from vbulliten even after the latest upgrade adn the only thing i can see that is still not updated was this old hack.

So be careful with any code you use from that link if you do.

Anxiously await update! the secial characters fix didn't work for me.

i even tried all this

 
  var value = document.getElementById('body').value;
  var amp = "%26";
  txt = value.replace(/&/gi, amp) 
  var params = 'body=' + txt;

i checked the DB too and it never makes it. Every character works except for the ampersand... no matter what i try, even escape().

irritating!