[Ajax] Dream's Chatbox

This adds a simple Chatbox to your forum home for your members to chat in.

The Chatbox is like a thread, members leave small messages in it for others to see. Think of it as an off-topic thread that never ends. The Chatbox can also help keep chatting out of the threads.

This mod is light on the server, uses little server resources to work. The default refresh rate is set to 5 minutes. You can disable automatic refreshing entirely in the options.

What's the refresh rate? The chatbox updates the messages shown every given seconds, that's the refresh rate. It sends a request to the server asking for new messages every X seconds, that you choose in the options.

Warning: If you set your refresh rate to 10 seconds this mod stops being so light on the server. You can do it, but be sure your server can handle it.

This mod is optimal on fixed width styles. You can change the width of the text input box to fit your style width.

Features:
- Ajax (no page refreshes)
- Pages
- Set refresh rate in seconds
- Hide Chatbox contents from certain user groups
- Set user groups that can't send messages but can view chatbox
- Moderator user groups that can delete messages
- Disable auto refresh for guests
- Prune messages by user ID, user name, days old or all
- Enable/disable smilies, bbcode and [ img ]
- Automatic URL parsing
- Users can delete their own messages
- Smilies popup with all smilies you can use in messages
- Who's Online Support
- Show message dates or not
- User names linked and colored with their user group colors
- Banned Users
- Hide refresh button
- /me code
- Optional message colors
- Other misc options in the Admin Control Panel

Live Demos: (leave your live demo in this thread!)
http://www.fliz.ru/ (http://www.fliz.ru/) (russian)
http://www.sustainabilityforum.com/forum (http://www.sustainabilityforum.com/forum)
http://www.virtualorbit.com/ (http://www.virtualorbit.com/)
http://www.bowlandcentral.com/forum (http://www.bowlandcentral.com/forum)


VERSION HISTORY (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1112683)


Another chatbox (or shoutbox) is vBShout (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=93097) (server intensive)

If you want a real chatroom, get FlashChat (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=120926)

Another browser-based chat option is EWT Chat (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=145384)

Other chatboxes are MGC Chatbox (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=148472) and vBShout Lite (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=147346)

Loooks good! Installed :D