Thinking of making a shoutbox - Ideas?

 

Hi there everyone!

 

I'm bored and am still working on a vital part of my site so I need somethign too occupy me in the meantime so I am thinking of writing a shoutbox script.

 

Before I start (Or even if I do) what type of features would you suggest I add?

 

Cheers,

 

Ryan Jones

If you can, some sort of flood control. Language filters would be nice, and maybe even emoticions (odly, that's pretty much the same thing).

Hmmm....

 

Flood control should be no problem using cookies or sessions

Language filters - same as word censors? If yes then those are already on my features list as are the emoticons

 

Cheers & Thanks for the suggestions,

 

Ryan Jones

Make sure if any long words are posted in the chatbox that your code injects regular spaces to stop it from stretching and breaking the layout of your page.

 

If the viewer's name is used in any of the posts you can change the background colour of the message to highlight it.

 

If you know javaScript you could add a little XMLHttpRequest to make it update and submit messages without refreshing the page, but then its kinda turning more into a chatroom.

 

What's the address?

Have it in the main ayout of the site. I hate places that have shoutboxes but outside of their site.

 

Click here to shout!!

Make sure if any long words are posted in the chatbox that your code injects regular spaces to stop it from stretching and breaking the layout of your page.

 

Like it' date=' thats an important one. Added too the list.

 

If the viewer's name is used in any of the posts you can change the background colour of the message to highlight it.

 

Interesting... I'll see what I can come up with

 

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I know Javascript - if I add this feature it will be admin enabled / disabled

 

What's the address?

 

http://www.allscience.spiralmindsinc.com/Testing/Shoutbox/Admin/index.php

 

Its just the basics, its a few hours work

 

Here are a few other features I'm thinking of....

 

RSS feed for posts.

Enable / Disable UBBC codes and smilies, totally or individually.

Wildcard IP bans.

Admin can set a time a certain 'shout' will appear like an announcement.

 

Comments anyone?

 

Cheers,

 

Ryan Jones