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 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 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 .....