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Posted by: Jan304On 2005/5/14 7:59:26 12290 reads

Another new version of the Shoutbox 3.x serie. Not much changed, mainly bugfixes. If everything goes like planned, the next version should be able to store the shouts in a mysql table.

Till then you will have to deal with this version:
Download Shoutbox 3.1

Changelog:
* Fixed: Possible warning in popup.
* Fixed: Wrong variable selection in popupframe
* Fixed: Forgot ":" after anonymous name...

* Changed: If you now deselect "guest" may post and block is visible to guests they will see the shouts but won't be able to add. This option gots now a logic!
* Changed: Almost all repeated actions are now packed in one class. This will speedy the conversion to a sql version.

* Added: You got now a maxview function. This is seperated from the trim function.

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Re: Shoutbox 3.1

Jan304 Published 05/14/2005 12:06 Updated 05/17/2005 20:06 Official Support Member Joined 03/31/2002 Comments 520

The following languages are included and up-to-date:
- English
- Dutch
- Slovenian (Slovensko)
- Persian
- Portuguese (Português (do Brasil))

The following languages are included but should be updated:
- German (Deutsch)
- Spanish (Español)
- Traditional Chinese (中文 (繁體))

What has changed in the language files:
modinfo.php:

 define("_MI_SHOUTBOX_TITLE6", "Max Shouts"); 
define("_MI_SHOUTBOX_DESC6", "How many shouts should be displayed?");

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

Gambero[removed] Published 05/14/2005 13:15 Quite a regular Joined 01/13/2005 Comments 393

I will update "Slovenski" language today...

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

Jan304 Published 05/14/2005 16:46 Official Support Member Joined 03/31/2002 Comments 520

Ok, thx for that. I renamed it in my post to Slovenian, better?

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

Gambero[removed] Published 05/14/2005 19:37 Updated 05/14/2005 19:38 Quite a regular Joined 01/13/2005 Comments 393

Here is the updated Slovenian (yes, better ) language:

Download

And the language changes are in modinfo.php and not main.php.

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

wcrwcr Published 05/14/2005 20:42 Updated 05/14/2005 20:49 Home away from home Joined 12/12/2003 Comments 1114

HEy Jan304

Thanks for that
It´s always great to hear from you.

Your module rocks.

i´d love to see that nice piece of code becomming a full feature XOOPS chat, with dif, rooms and permissions.

Do you ever thought about?

Thanks for sharing

BTW> i´ve updated the language files (only two defines in the modinfo.php )
How could I send it to you?

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

jskfung Published 05/15/2005 4:00 Just popping in Joined 05/10/2005 Comments 5

is it possible to call out Shoutbox from the menu, please?

if so, how to do that?

please reply, thanks a lot!

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

irmtfan Published 05/15/2005 7:43 Module Developer Joined 12/07/2003 Comments 3419

jan i will update persian language.
but i test this version and have some problems with utf-8 charset.
do you reproduce it?

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

Jan304 Published 05/15/2005 18:45 Official Support Member Joined 03/31/2002 Comments 520

Quote:

jan i will update persian language.
but i test this version and have some problems with utf-8 charset.
do you reproduce it?

Since I only speak English and Dutch I never used the UTF-8 charset. Where is the problem located? The shouts users post or language files?

If it is the shouts of the users itself you might want to manually add a meta tag content-type in the template.

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

Jan304 Published 05/15/2005 18:47 Official Support Member Joined 03/31/2002 Comments 520

Quote:

is it possible to call out Shoutbox from the menu, please?

if so, how to do that?

please reply, thanks a lot!

There is no easy way to do this. There is no main, simply because it is a shoutbox, not a real chat module.

You might want to add the javascript to open the popup in your mainmenu, your choice.

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

Jan304 Published 05/15/2005 18:54 Official Support Member Joined 03/31/2002 Comments 520

Quote:

Your module rocks.

i´d love to see that nice piece of code becomming a full feature XOOPS chat, with dif, rooms and permissions.

Do you ever thought about?

A shameless request, like that

. I have though about it, but the problem is mainly that:
1) My coding skills aren't that fantastic
2) Shoutbox should stay a shoutbox, not a chat module

Quote:

BTW> i´ve updated the language files (only two defines in the modinfo.php )
How could I send it to you

Will send you my e-mail adres thru pm, prefer not to post publicly, got spam enough

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

irmtfan Published 05/16/2005 3:22 Updated 05/16/2005 4:33 Module Developer Joined 12/07/2003 Comments 3419

thanks jan
edit:
yes the encoding problem is in the shouts block i add the charset manullay to template
in shoutbox_block.html:

 <center> 
    <iframe name="shoutFrame" [color=FF0000]charset="utf-8"[/color] width="<{$block.iframe_width}>" src="<{$xoops_url}>/modules/shoutbox/shoutframe.php"  height="<{$block.iframe_height}>" frameborder="<{$block.iframe_border}>" scrolling="yes">iframe> 
center>

and translation updated:
farsi.xoops.lang.shotbox31

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

irmtfan Published 05/16/2005 8:55 Module Developer Joined 12/07/2003 Comments 3419

that modification in template does not solve the encoding problem.
now its very strange but i find a silly solution and solve it.
i save shoutframe.php with utf-8 charset and now it works fine.

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

Jan304 Published 05/16/2005 11:22 Official Support Member Joined 03/31/2002 Comments 520

I prefer not to save my files in UTF-8 since it is not the perfect solution for my language. However, I added in all files a charset attribute.

Please download again and tell me or the problem is solved, or not. And thx for the language.

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

egbringas Published 05/18/2005 21:05 Just popping in Joined 12/08/2004 Comments 18

i've installed it a couple of days and it was working perfectly. now am having problems. the shout are not being shown on the block but when you show the pop-up, the shouts shows. i reinstalled the module but still the same problem. in fact in firefox, it's just blank and in IE it says action canceled. any thoughts?

check it out at http://www.abrenian.com

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

Jan304 Published 05/19/2005 14:49 Official Support Member Joined 03/31/2002 Comments 520

Try to enable debug and post here any error messages related to shoutbox.

Thx!

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

carlinfg Published 05/19/2005 16:55 Just popping in Joined 04/15/2005 Comments 2

I found some traditional characters cannot be correctly saved into the CVS file and some cannot be displayed on the brower. The users will see some strange chinese characters. For example, the chinese character "四"(four), it changed to another chinese character "札". Any advise on solving this problem?

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

Jan304 Published 05/19/2005 18:32 Official Support Member Joined 03/31/2002 Comments 520

Do the chinese characters display properly in your XOOPS site (except then from the shoutbox)? If so, I wouldn't understand why this is happening. The charset is defined properly and a browser should render everything properly.

A question: is the correct character saved? (Check file uploads/shoutbox/shout.cvs)

Lemme know.

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

egbringas Published 05/19/2005 19:17 Just popping in Joined 12/08/2004 Comments 18

i enabled debug and i don't see any error. weird thing is, the shout outs are showing sometimes and not showing sometimes.

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

carlinfg Published 05/20/2005 12:44 Updated 05/20/2005 15:36 Just popping in Joined 04/15/2005 Comments 2

Other areas of my XOOPS site do not have this problem.

For those strange chinese characters, the CVS "uploads/shoutbox/shout.cvs" do not save them correctly.

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

Jan304 Published 05/20/2005 19:20 Official Support Member Joined 03/31/2002 Comments 520

If you manually create a shout.cvs file, save it as an utf-file, upload it, is then the problem solved?

Let me know.

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

irmtfan Published 05/21/2005 5:15 Module Developer Joined 12/07/2003 Comments 3419

jan sorry for my delay
i test the new package but the problem is still remain
i have to save shoutframe.php in utf-8 format instead of ANSY

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

Lakota Published 05/29/2005 22:49 Updated 05/30/2005 0:02 Just popping in Joined 01/28/2005 Comments 11

Hello Lakota here ... I am using Shoutbox 3.1, the pop up error of "additional plugins are require to display all the media on this page." I am using firefox and most of my user are getting the same message. Any thoughts or Idea's ?

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

SawLoserUKLF Published 05/31/2005 10:38 Just popping in Joined 01/16/2005 Comments 4

How do u get the sound to work?

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

Jan304 Published 06/04/2005 18:56 Official Support Member Joined 03/31/2002 Comments 520

Hi Lakota,

Like I told in PM, you prolly enabled the 'make sound on new message' feature. Firefox will need 3th party software to make sound (for example Quicktime) and will notify you.

SO just disabling that feature will solve your problem. You also just might to install the required plugin...

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

wizanda Published 06/05/2005 17:04 Home away from home Joined 03/21/2004 Comments 1585

Hi just upgraded to the new version 3.1 from 3

Before i had it, that it said you need to loggin to use the shout box as guests was disabled
yet visable to guests in groups

Since upgrading if it is visable to guests, and so they can't post, it causes the page to have an error, any ideas why??

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

keemanxp Published 06/18/2005 16:23 Updated 06/20/2005 3:22 Just popping in Joined 05/13/2005 Comments 1

Just asking, is it possible to let "guest" enter a nickname when they are allowed to post?
XxxXXxxx........

I just notice the function, sorry...hehe..

Word Wrapping in the block

adrock Published 06/19/2005 6:22 Quite a regular Joined 12/07/2004 Comments 291

Many Thanks to Jan for the help... and to the PHP manual!

This is my temp solution to the word wrap issue in the block;

in shoutframe.php, find this;
Quote:

if(!empty($_POST['shouttext']))
{
$shouttext = $_POST['shouttext'];
$slashes = new MyTextSanitizer;
$shouttext = $slashes->stripSlashesGPC($shouttext);

if(!$xoopsUser)
{

and add one line to it, like this;
Quote:

if(!empty($_POST['shouttext']))
{
$shouttext = $_POST['shouttext'];
$slashes = new MyTextSanitizer;
$shouttext = wordwrap($shouttext, 21, " ", 1);
$shouttext = $slashes->stripSlashesGPC($shouttext);

if(!$xoopsUser)
{

the '21' is the max number of characters you want before a space is inserted causing the looooong line of text or url to wrap.
It WILL break the url, so if you need the url intact, this is probably not for you...

a working example can be seen at http://www.teamphast.com

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

babawan Published 07/05/2005 10:44 Just popping in Joined 02/10/2005 Comments 1

Absolutely brilliant module!
Best chat there is for XOOPS

One small question:
Is there any way i can change the direction of new shouts - new shouts scrolling up from the bottom rather than from the top?
Maybe change shoutbox_block.html?

Some hints would be very much appreciated

thanks again for an excellent module

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

roujinz Published 12/05/2005 20:43 Just popping in Joined 10/05/2005 Comments 32

Hey great module!!

Q: Is it possible to disable the "ERASE" button on the shoutbox? I didnt realize that it erases everyones shout not just your own.

Thanks!

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

adrock Published 12/23/2005 21:09 Quite a regular Joined 12/07/2004 Comments 291

Anyone else make any further progress on word wrapping?

Although my above metioned 'hack' will do it...it is far from perfect.

For instance....long web addresses get cut into peices. Certain characters do not get broken when exceeding the 21 character mark.
for instance: weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! wil get cut into peices and display without scrolling left and right...but weeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! will not (the exclamation point doesn't count in the char set or something)

Also...since the very beginning, there has been an error with the shoutbox. It displays in the notification area of IE (also the above mentioned errors for FF)...however, this has nothing to do with including a sound file. My belief is that it has to do with the fact that it does not effectively divide it's functions based on user groups. When it is set for anonymous people to not be able to shout, it generates errors in the page....which in turn cause a not so graceful degredation in it's functionality...and eventually it just throws up 404 pages in the shout box.

Don't get me worng...I LOVE the module and still feel as though it is the best overall shoutbox for XOOPS at the current time. I am also on-board with many of the current users that wish that it could be used more like a standard chat room when in the pop-up mode....

Keep up the great work! Thanks in advance to anyone willing to take on some or all of these issues!

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

nelrod123 Published 01/28/2006 4:34 Just popping in Joined 01/13/2005 Comments 17

Can you tell me how to get more area of the shoutbox to show.

Thank you
Nelrod1

PS great module

Re: Shoutbox 3.1

Lucas_M Published 05/25/2006 23:34 Just popping in Joined 05/25/2006 Comments 1

I'm a bit new to the whole XOOPS thing, but for the most part i've been able to handle installing modules that are supplied on this site.. I had no trouble installing the shoutbox either but there's still a problem... I have no clue how to access it. Can someone shed some light on me please?

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