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.

[rnmcd]

Originally Posted by jking222222

Thanks for the mod!

Is there a way to have it show up on the home page and one specific thread or board?

Originally Posted by Dream

The instructions for it to show on the home page are included in the zip file.

For the chatbox to show on a thread or a particular forum, you would need template conditionals, but I'm not sure which ones you would need. You can try to ask for help on this forum.

Did anyone figure out how to show the chatbox on a particular forum? I couldn't find in anyone asked about it in the forum that Dream linked to.

[metin]

Thanx

[haytham]

Can someone tell me the difference between this and Cyb chat?

[snakemaycry]

Originally Posted by calyx

greetings, I am having an issue with the chatbox ive attached a ss of the error i get

any ideas?

this is what happens after text is typed in the chat and tried to send.. any advice would be greatly appreciated

Look on the previous page. Install 3.7 version from here https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=167569

[calyx]

Thanks

[ARSamo]

thnx

[eyeoftiger]

Hello
I've been using your chatbox and it works great.
However i faced one problem , hope you can tell me what's wrong.
I want to diable "chatbox" time to time , so i log in to my cp and disable the chatbox however the chatbox still remains open in my forum.
I can not control on/off for the chatbox, how can i fix this????
Thanks!

[Dream]

you need to manually remove it from the template.

[eyeoftiger]

so i have to install and uninstall every single time?
lol... that's not work efficient , is it..
hm

[Dream]

not really, but saves resources. and no need to uninstall, just remove from the template.