I dont really need smileys in the shoutbox anyways. As long as it can be used as a simple shoutbox

Yessssss it works.

Here is the code I changed in ShoutDisplay.pl

from this

		<form name="shoutbox" action="$shoutform_action" method="post" onSubmit="changevalue()">
			<input type="hidden" name="shoutout" maxlength="$max_shout_length" /><br />
			<input type="hidden" name="formsession" value="$formsession" />
			<input type="text" name="message" size="20" maxlength="$max_shout_length" onfocus="clearText(this)" value="$shout_txt{'30'}" />
			<br /><br />
			<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="$shout_txt{'31'}" />
		</form> 

To this:

		<form name="shoutbox" action="$shoutform_action" method="post" onSubmit="changevalue()">
			<input type="hidden" name="shoutout" maxlength="$max_shout_length" /><br />
			<input type="hidden" name="formsession" value="$mbname$username" />
			<input type="text" name="message" size="20" maxlength="$max_shout_length" onfocus="clearText(this)" value="$shout_txt{'30'}" />
			<br /><br />
			<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="$shout_txt{'31'}" />
		</form> 

Thanks driven and thanks batchman

Just an observation,  none of the shoutbox admin settings have any effect. Shoutbox does not refresh. timestamps do not work etc....

And yet, it doesn't work for me.

Can somebody post an updated, working version of the ShoutDisplay.pl?

I'll try it on my board, and include it in the main package, which I'll then add to the first post. I'll also add back in the English language file, and try a code posted for the smilies, and see if it works.

Progress. Maybe not super fast, but progress, none the less.

First post updated with new information and a new zip file.

The mod now functions, even if barely.

The english language file has been added back in, and I have added the 'make sure you type something before shouting' alert to the language file, so it is no longer hard coded.

Most of it should be a copy of the last version, but if some kind people will update any desired language files for the newest version, I will include them in the zip package.

Today and/or tomorrow, I will try and see if I can get smilies working with some codes somebody posted in the old thread ... may or may not work.

There is one thing that really ought to be done before I bother to take any pictures for this mod, but it is something I am not any good at.

Currently, the enclosed mod to add the shoutbox to the board index doesn't add it very well. It is just stuck as an odd little box at the bottom of the screen, off to the side.

Can anybody who doesn't get completely screwed up by HTML tables update that mod to make the entire info center into a table with the Shoutbox on the left side of the screen, taking about 20% of the width, and the info center on the right side, taking about 80%?

Or perhaps two versions, nearly identical, but one for the left, and one for the right.

Eventually, when Jet Li releases the latest version of Ronnie's Recent Users List, we'll probably even want to do one that has one on one side, the other on the other, with the info center in the middle, but obviously we can't do it yet, since the mod isn't finished yet.

Tables throw me, but can anybody else manage that?

Progress, folks ... we are making progress.

I have it neatly installed, I'll try to get a mod file out tonight. I have other mods installed so I will try to sort it out

For some reason this is the same code I use for my Y2.1 board but for some reason in YaBB2.3.1 I have problems with IE7 and firefox3. I have scrolling="yes" in the shoutbox iframe and in firefox I can see the scroll bars but they are greyed out.  In IE7 the shoutbox iframe doesn't scale to the table width but the horizontal scroll bar does work and vertical scroll bar is still greyed out.   Any ideas? I have scrolling set to "no" so that both browsers at least display the shoutbox correctly but I would really like to have the scrolling option is at all possible.

Below is a layout mod to the BoardIndex.template.  It neatly puts the shoutbox to the left of the Info Center.