On January 2009, Batchmann has startet a community projekt to call back to life the shoutbox mod from Loney Pandora. Since these day a great member projekt was born and some people worked on it successfully. The Shoutbox mod for YaBB 2.3.1 Forum Software was relaesed in a RC beta Version. For the complete development please read this thread. At the moment Unilat is working on a advanced (Ajax) Version, but i'll working further on the "perl" edition.

Now, with some changes and additionals i release the shoutbox for YaBB 2.4 but before, i say: "Thank you!" to the other great guys they worked on this project.

• Batchman
• DOT-COM
• Derek Barnstorm
• Unilat
• Driven

It was a great pleasure for me to cooperate with you on this project!

..... not to forget .....

• MasterKarmann (He checked the english language on errors)
• deti (He gave the solution for the error 500 in conjunction Shoutbox and YaBB 2.4)

Did I forget someone now let me know please.

For YaBB 2.3.1 Forum Software we have stoped the work on the revision number RC5. The first revision number for YaBB 2.4 called RC 5.4.1. Actually we have the

Shoutbox - Version 5.5

Description:

It allows a "shoutbox" to be placed on your forum. This allows members to chat quickly, rather than making posts. This is NOT designed to be a chat-system, but is somewhere inbetween posting, and realtime chat.

Features:

Most of the settings are full configurable in your Shoutbox Settings over the admin panel. Take a look on the following screenshots  

Screenshot 1: Shoutbox display with default template (Shout highlighted on mouseover and autoscroll function below the box, if the features enabled)



Screenshot 2: Shoutbox display with yabb21 template



Screenshot 3: Shoutbox general settings



Screenshot 4: Shoutbox layout settings



Screenshot 4a: Scrollbar settings



Screenshot 5: Shoutbox delete shouts



Screenshot 6: Shoutbox user profile options



Screenshot 7 and 8: Shoutbox user profile display




Screenshot 9: Admin profile setting for banning user from the shoutbox



Screenshot 10: External window by onclick on more options link



Please notice: The form field limiter and the highlighted shout feature that i'll added, based on external javascript from the dynamic drive website. Let the copyright notice from the developer in the source code!

The form field limiter works only with the "onkeypress" function! It doesn't  support copy and paste or onclick on any smilie or bb code.

Mod Package:

• shoutbox24_RC5_5.mod
• shoutbox24_templateRC5_5.mod
• shoutbox24_RC5_5_German_Du.mod
• shoutbox24_RC5_5_German.mod

Installation:

1) Modify YaBB files using BoardMod or manually.
2) Load modified files to your server in ASCII mode.

• cgi-bin/yabb2/AdminIndex.pl
• cgi-bin/yabb2/Admin/AdminSubList.pl (ASCII)
• cgi-bin/yabb2/Admin/ModList.pl (ASCII)
• cgi-bin/yabb2/Sources/Register.pl (ASCII)
• cgi-bin/yabb2/Sources/SubList.pl (ASCII)
• cgi-bin/yabb2/Sources/System.pl (ASCII)
• cgi-bin/yabb2/Sources/Profile.pl (ASCII)
• cgi-bin/yabb2/Sources/Palette.pl (ASCII)
• cgi-bin/yabb2/Languages/English/Error.lng (ASCII)

Before install the template mod with BoardMod:

Copy both files below to your cgi-bin/yabb2 directory (same directory as YaBB.pl)
- /yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default.css
- /yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/yabb21.css
- Apply Shoutbox24_templateRC5.5 mod
- Return both css files above back to their original directory
- Transfer all changed files to your server.

• cgi-bin/yabb2/Templates/default/BoardIndex.template (ASCII)
• cgi-bin/yabb2/Templates/yabb21/BoardIndex.template (ASCII)

Upload files from Zip Package:

• cgi-bin/yabb2/ShoutDisplay.pl (ASCII and CHMOD 755)
• cgi-bin/yabb2/Admin/ShoutAdmin.pl (ASCII and ChMOD 755)
• cgi-bin/yabb2/Languages/English/Shoutbox.lng (ASCII and CHMOD 666)
• cgi-bin/yabb2/Languages/German/Shoutbox.lng (ASCII and CHMOD 666) - if you want
• cgi-bin/yabb2/Languages/German_Du/Shoutbox.lng (ASCII and CHMOD 666) - if you want
• cgi-bin/yabb2/Sources/Shoutbox.pl (ASCII and CHMOD 755)
• cgi-bin/yabb2/Variables/shoutsettings.txt (ASCII and CHMOD 666)
• cgi-bin/yabb2/Variables/shouts.txt (ASCII and CHMOD 666)

• yabbfiles/ModImages/Shoutbox/all Files (BINARY)
• yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/yabb21/all Files (BINARY)
• yabbfiles/shout.js (ASCII)
• yabbfiles/shoutnew.js (ASCII)

The shoutbox works best together with IE 8 and Firefox Webbrowser. Tested with both and IE 7 on a fresh installed YaBB 2.4 Version. Not tested with others. I can not ruled out (and not tested) conflicts with other installed mods.

Mod History:

• 1. First relaese for YaBB 2.4 on 21th Apr. 2009 (8 Downloads)
• 2. Updated on 5.4.2 on 22th Apr. 2009 (Small changes - look at this post) (27 Downloads)
• 3. Updated on 5.5 on 20th May. 2009
  What's new:
  1. Encrypted usernames
  2. Groupcolors on usernames
  3. Link to Profile by onclick username
  4. Last online Feature by mouseover username
  5. Removed Font and Size Button in shout window - added TT Font and Palette Button on shout window
  6. Removed Font and Size Button in more options window - added Dropdown Field for that and Palette Button for Font Color
  7. New scrollbar color feature in admin shout settings
  8. Bugfix on yabb21 template

Feedback, hints and suggestions welcome .....  

Congratulations, ThM, when I find the time to do a 2.4 board, I'll add this in for testing and use ... right after I get my quiz mod updated. (That has to be my first goal, of course.)

I try to find tomorrow a solution (i have an idea), but i don't know if it works.

Just got this installed, and did some testing ... I have to say, very nice!

Installed without any serious problems (the search string for one of the files in the template mod isn't right ... it is looking for Version 1.6 to add after, and it is actually something like 1.6.2.7 or something), and all the features that I could think to try seemed to work nicely.

Still have to figure out that hide username / usergroup colors thing at some point, but an extremely nice product at this point!

Edited:

mick wrote on 21.04.09 at 20:00:36:


@mick

Please test this. In  ShoutDisplay.pl search for:

Code:

if ($ENV{'SERVER_SOFTWARE'} =~ /IIS/) {

	$yyIIS = 1;
	$0 =~ m~(.*)(\\|/)~;
	$yypath = $1;
	$yypath =~ s~\\~/~g;
	chdir($yypath);
	push(@INC, $yypath);
} 

and add after

Code:

	$yyexec = "YaBB";
	$script_root = $ENV{'SCRIPT_FILENAME'};
	$script_root =~ s/\/$yyexec\.(pl|cgi)//ig; 

and tell me if it works.

batchman wrote on 22.04.09 at 05:26:59:


I download the yabb package again und you are right. There is an update from a update aviable
I'll will fix the step and add the missing icons.

@all: Thanks for the report

Ok ...

new zip File - Version 5.4.2 in the first Post

Changelog:

- Added missing icons Edited:

- Fix step in the template modfile
- Added a small code piece in ShoutDisplay.pl

Works well here, thanks lads, excellent (2.31 upgraded to 2.4)

At first I had issues with the install but later found out that the *.txt  CHMOD's were not set to 666 course as stated in the readme text...

It seems you set the shoutbox width value on 380 or higher.
If so, then open the ShoutDisplay.pl, search for:

Code:

######################################################
# Increasing the number below increases the height
#of the bottom portion of the shoutbox. The top
#portion containing the actual shouts will auto size
#accordingly.
####
	$shout_text_height = 92;
###################################################### 

and change the highlighted on 110.