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.

[Mark.B]

Now marked as uninstalled as I have upgraded to vB 3.7 and have installed to 3.7 version of this instead.

Note to anyone upgrading to 3.7, you MUST upgrade the chatbox as the 3.6 version is totally incompatible with 3.7. Dream's done a new version in the 3.7 mods section.

[MISCMORE]

I didn't specifiy a member group that is not allowed to shout. But guests are still not able to shout? What can I do?

Thanks,
MISC

[samual]

Originally Posted by ezekiel97

I cant find " <td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>" in my template, is it supposed to be something else?

I cannot find it either. Any help would be great.

[anglah]

I cannot find the admincp for the life of me

[Mother_Dee]

Here's the chatbox on my site:

http://www.darkportals.com/forum

[dbtp]

I have installed this and it is working good, but I have a couple questions.

How do i set these items up?

- Who's Online Support
- User names linked and colored with their user group colors

Also is there a way to space out the messages a bit. Once people get posting message it starts to look a little bit like a cluttered mess and is hard to read. If I could just space the posts a cenameter or two it would be easier to read everyones messages.

thanks.

[dbtp]

Also has anyone altered the default message for usersgroups who don't have permissions to use the chatbox?

You don't have permission to see the Chatbox.

I would like to edit this if possible.

[Sgt Pepper]

I am having trouble.. Where is the main forum folder

[luckid]

I have this problem over chat :

PHP Code:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /global.php(237) : eval()'d code on line 2 


I can not solve this problem ....

You help my plese.... TNX in advance Luckid

[Sgt Pepper]

Dream Thank you for the chatbox. IT RULES! took me a while to find the main forum folder(for people who dont know where it is its in public_html then double click admincp then paste the chatbox.php file)But in the end i found it. All my members love it!

Rating:5 stars to see it go here:www.ss-clanserver.com

P.S ull have to register though