[Extension] Ajax Chat (Page 1 of 2)

Notes
Some part like set the max post chat, enable link post on chat, create more room, edit  room name, and so on still need manual editing on the setchat.php file. You should find some of this line code below and edit it as your need.

// Maximum number of post chat
define('MAXROWS', 10);             

// allows links in texts (1), not allow (0)
define('CHATLINK', 1);             

// For create more rooms, add lines with this syntax  $chatrooms[] = 'room_name';
// For edit the rooms name, just edit room one and room two with your desire name
$chatrooms = array();
$chatrooms[] = 'Room One';
$chatrooms[] = 'Room Two';

// Password used to empty chat rooms, just edit 12345 with your password
define('CADMPASS', '12345');

// Name of the directory in which are stored the TXT files for chat rooms
define('CHATDIR', 'chattxt');

Demo
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How does one set the chat time? It's May 19 in my country already. But it still shows May 18 in chat.

Date and timestamp format by default is set into date('j F H:i'). And you rite, it still lack of timezone support. I will fixed it soon.

^^ Thank you.

FANTASTIC !! could you do this for 1.3 also ?? lot of thanks !!!

It should work for v1.3 too, just extract the file, open the manifest.xml file and edit the min version of this extension to your current installed PunBB version.

In my trial error at PunBB 1.3.6 and it still work, you can check on this  PunBB 1.3.6 demo site. I think, there are some conflict with other extension (probably its cause by js cache, since it merge all js things into single file). But I'm not pretty sure.

Do you able to mention your current installed extension, punbb ver and your forum link?
If I have some spare time, I'll try to check it out and thx for the report.

From your chat html source code, the define forum_root seem not matched and it cause some files to be 404/not found, eg:

http://ps3pirata.com/chatfiles/chatfunctions.js
should be
http://ps3pirata.com/extensions/chat/chatfiles/chatfunctions.js
etc

.
That why your chat room look like keep on frozen.

Open your index.php in chat extension folder and make sure the define forum_root (in line 2) is correct with your extension folder path, by default is set to:

define('FORUM_ROOT', '../../');

If it is correct then the file will no longer be 404/not found and your chat will be work like on this v1.3.6 demo.

finally I fix the problem
users can now chat !!!
I want to give you some ideas for the future version of this excelent chat , for example :

-Private rooms ( for moderators ) using a password o directly by rank
-Admin or moderator permissions to delete messages , links or ban users

Thank you very very mucha delta

Sure, the ajax script is configured to make the scrollbar auto scroll to the latest/recent chat post. But you can play around with the css there, eg: to solve your issue you can customize the width property in the css file as your desire.

For example to your issue:

Find this line in the css file

#chats{margin:2px auto 3px 2px;[b]width:78%[/b];height:330px;border:1px solid #aaaafe;background-color:#fdfdfe;overflow:auto;padding:2px;box-shadow:.18em .18em .2em #a0a1d2;-webkit-box-shadow:.18em .18em .2em #a0a1d2;-moz-border-radius:.8em;-webkit-border-radius:.8em;-khtml-border-radius:.8em;border-radius:.8em}

In that line, you can edit the width css property into 100% to make it fit without scrolling. Else for the balance, the other optional is to set the width on #chatarea css tag into 100% too. So, your chat room will display fit to screen.

For other layout/display issue, all you can do is just to play arround with the css there.

This extension works with Punbb 1.4.4 ?