Joomla Reviews : AJAX ShoutBox

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Written by Editor (cowboy)

Wednesday, 09 November 2005

I've been watching this piece of project since it was launched few months ago. I went back and try the latest version, and it worked! AJAX ShoutBox is a module that adds live chat functionality to your Joomla website. Your visitors can chat with each other right in your website without refreshing their browsers.

But first of all, what is AJAX?

For the geeks, it's Asynchronous JavaScript + XML. For the not so geek, it's a whole new way of looking at the web. Really. AJAX enables faster, more responsive Web applications through a combination of asynchronous Javascript, the Document Object Model (DOM), and XMLhttpRequest. What this means for Web interface designers is that a DHTML-based Web application can make quick, incremental updates to a user interface without reloading the entire screen.

Installation.

Install the component (com_shoutbox.zip)
Install the module (mod_shoutbox.zip)
Edit "index.php" of your template and insert the follwing code just above the "</head>" tag.

Comments (14)

very nice component : joni6

but i guess, i have to wait for the next version.

November 9, 2005

i like it : robert

it's awesome, i like this one! I hope the next version will have all the things mentioned in this review.

November 9, 2005

very cool : twitch

I am using this shoutbox on my test site and I am very pleased with it. Hope to see further development.

November 9, 2005

Great! : Guest

Good work !

Tried it on my homepage and works fine ! One feature request: is it possible to restrict unregistered users to either none-registered names only, or just give them without an option a name like guest[randomnumer] ?

November 10, 2005

AJAX is sweet : Guest

I like this module too. Just few more releases...

November 10, 2005

Fantastic!! : Guest

It's really cool.

But it's not saving special characters (spanish) well :cry

Just more customization is need ("Latest message" text customizable, etc.)

Thanks!

November 11, 2005

UTF-8!! : Guest

If you're not using UTF-8 the shoutbox doesn't encode certain characters

November 12, 2005

it needs hyphenation : Guest

and it would be great if you could have settings to select a fixed height and force a hyphenation of long words/urls.

looks great!

November 14, 2005

... : djkac

It would be great to have an option to use this in a popup window and just have a button to open/activate it.

November 14, 2005

Make sure it's supported : Guest

I tried the Ajax shoutbox on my website and was contacted a day later by my ISP saying that my processor usage had increased over 10 times! They were going to shut me down. I removed the shoutbox and all things returned to normal. I'm scared to try it again.

November 16, 2005

Unfortunately it does not support UTF-8 : mikeho1980

I had tried it, but it doesn't support messages other than in English.

February 26, 2006

encoding : palik

hello there!

non utf-8 or iso-8859-1 languages are possible, but you have to hack some code inside module. if you see the comments on utf8 decode function on php.net you will do it

http://pl2.php.net/manual/pl/function.utf8-decode.php

March 29, 2006

cool : upineter : http://www.asiatourismtravel.com/recipes

It's really cool.

Thanks!

March 17, 2007

the ShoutBox. won't appear : cachep113

hi, I am a very beginner with joomla, and I do need help pls, I have seen nothing after installing the AJAX-ShoutBox, how come? is it possible to remove the Polls and replace it with the AJAX-ShoutBox? and how? thank you all

April 12, 2008

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