This mod adds a Chat Box with wysiwyg editor to your ver. 2.4 Forum.
Besides a "General Chat" room it uses the existing Board names as Chat room names.
It shows a list of participants for every Chat room.
Participants can start/stop Chat auto-update.

Admin can:
- Enable / disable Chat
- Enable Chat Button on Message Index
- Enable / disable alert before deleting a Chat message
- Exclude Board names not wanted as Chat rooms
- Set max. number of characters in a Chat message
- Set the number of minutes Chat messages stay alive
- Set the number of minutes inactive participants stay in the Chat log
- Set Chat/participants update rate in seconds





History:

Sep 19^th, 2009 at 2:27pm - beta 0.2 - added admin section for admin to set the number of minutes a chat message stay alive, the number of minutes a inactive participant will stay in the chat log, the update frequency in seconds and select boards that should not be used as Chat Room names. Also fixed a small glitch causing unwanted scrollbar in some browsers.

Sep 20^th, 2009 at 1:15pm - beta 0.3 - fixed spelling error (seconds) and removed linking to moderators.

Sep 21^st, 2009 at 1:02am - beta 0.4 - added admin option to exclude a complete category by selecting the category name. Added admin option to enable/disable Chat as requested by 'chillipepper'. Added a "General Chat" room in case a confused admin should exclude all boards or a member group only have access to boards excluded. Linking to moderators profile are back and opening correctly now.

Sep 21^st, 2009 at 5:08pm - beta 0.5 - made Chat CE compatible with the Y 2.1 template.

Sep 25^th, 2009 at 1:37am - beta 0.6 - made changes for a better way to handle / me functionality.

Sep 30^th, 2009 at 4:57pm - beta 0.7 - added admin option to set max. characters in chat messages. Added admin option to show / hide Chat button om Message Index. Fixed bug when excluding a board with the same id as a category.

Oct 1^st, 2009 at 12:03am - beta 0.7.1 - fixed admin and gmod visible in stealth mode

Oct 1^st, 2009 at 1:29am - beta 0.7.2 - fixed remaining characters counter starting 1 low in some browsers

Oct 2^nd, 2009 at 9:57pm - beta 0.8 - added admin option to enable/disable alert before deleting chat comment (favor to Derek for his loyal testing   ). Added "Clear" button to reset the editor.Made some code streamlining.

Oct 3^rd, 2009 at 5:15pm - beta 0.8.1 - fixed wrong .mod file attached to prev. package. Fixed option group labels for empty categories in selector.

Oct 4^th, 2009 at 10:45am - release ver. 1.0 - done some code-streamlining for faster loading.

Oct 9^th, 2009 at 8:23am - ver. 1.2 - improved wysiwyg editor. All editor updating now based on events rather that the old timer based updating. Much less 'flicker' and much faster. Now buttons indicates when the cursor is inside a node, and 'node select' links are shown in the status bar (see attached screenshot). Added background color button. All changes since ver. 1.0 are in ChatCE.pl, ChatCE.lng and a number of new image files - no need for un-install / re-install.

Hi carsten,i tryed beta1 and stall ok and worked ok. i just install beta2 and boom i have nothin but probs..it install ok but when i try to use it,it not work and locks the forum..i check my server and its run 90% get it afew mins and back to normal..i go in admin and look at the chat and when i look at which boards can be use for chat there is nothin there and onlt a scroller..i go back to chat and get server error..i sude my backup and board was ok then i started again with this beta 2 and just came up the same..well thats my testing so far..

Installed ok and works great,so much better now we can have how many chat rooms we want..before there was too many to control in beta1 but now its great.. on one thing i would wish for is to be able to turn off and on in admin

This is really cool, Carsten. Thanks!

Quick links aren't working for me though on the usernames under 'Moderators', and if quick links aren't enabled, then the members profile page opens in the chat frame rather than a new one.

Also, a small spelling error...

'update' => "Update frequency in secunds.", 

Should be...

'update' => "Update frequency in seconds.", 

Thanks! All seems fine now.

Great! Everything seems in working order from a quick test. It's nice to have the moderator links back too.

This would be another nice feature for YaBB 3.

I hope you don't mind if I ask a couple of things about the wysiwyg editor. These aren't problems to me in the slightest, I'm more inquisitive than anything else, so I thought I'd bring them up:

Anyhow, I've only tested on a Mac but, when using the '/me' feature, any text after is in red. This only happens in Safari and works fine in FireFox. People usually sign their name last anyway, so it's not really important.





Also, when inserting an email address, the 'mailto:' appears before. If you meant it that way, then it's absolutely fine - I just wasn't too sure it was meant to have been there or not.



As I say, they're only very minor things, and not in any way a problem.

Thanks again for your work on the Mod!

Edited:

Thanks. All's good now.

And thanks for explaining. They're fine as they are anyway.

Carsten wrote on Sep 21^st, 2009 at 5:25pm:

Doh! I didn't even think of that. It works as it should do then.

Carsten wrote on Sep 21^st, 2009 at 5:25pm:

Ah, yep, You're right. I hadn't checked it in FF.

It's a very nice Mod!

Cool. No more red text in Safari.