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.

[KHALIK]

ok, will be testing version 2 now with ajax enabled

btw it works perfectly BUT on IE i get errors!

Hi,
Install worked well, but the chatbox never empties itself..
So since day 1 all messages are still there.

How can I set this to be cleaned / emptied daily or weekly ?

txs
khb

[Dream]

Read the instructions in the cron/ folder

Thank you !
I had missed this one
kh

[thepub]

what is the difference between the ajax verson and the other one? I don't know what ajax is *hides*. Also, how can I set this up to be on every page and not just the forum home?

[Dream]

Ajax means no page refreshes.

You can add it to every page if it's below the navbar.

[thepub]

I do have it below the navbar but how do I put it on every page?

[Dream]

Just put it on the bottom of the navbar template instead of in the forumhome template.

[thepub]

Originally Posted by Dream

Just put it on the bottom of the navbar template instead of in the forumhome template.

just paste the code at the bottom?

[thepub]

Originally Posted by thepub

just paste the code at the bottom?

woohoo it worked! Except it put the shoutbox on my homepage (cmps) twice and I didn't know how to remove the extra one and keep the module one (looked better as a module for homepage). How can I set it up back like it was for my homepage?