My endless quest for a shoutbox

[gothic1213]

I have absolutely no idea if I am allowed to "advertise" 3rd party scripts (albeit free) but here goes..
I have been frenetically searching for a suitable shoutbox to use in my portal because my members are totally addicted!
We had been using the one from here that displayed in the side panel, but since upgrading to 3.5.0 that was a non-starter (especially for a php noob like me)
I stumbled upon THIS (http://www.designanet.co.uk/shoutbox/index.php#download) little gem. It is free, simplicity itself to install, and works perfectly (so far)
I sincerely hope this is of some benefit to others here, as I know a good shoutbox is always a sought after commodity.

p.s. you can see it working in the right panel if you click the link in my sig..

[gothic1213]

I forgot to mention, all I did to incorporate it was to make a new template called "adv_portal_shout" with the contents
<tr>
<td class="$bgclass">
<IFRAME SRC="http://localhost/shout/inc_form.php" WIDTH=175 HEIGHT=500 frameborder="0" scrolling="yes">
</td>
</tr>
replace the code in blue with the path to which you installed the shoutbox.
Adjust the height and width to whatever you like, then "Add Module" in your CMPS using the above template.

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[FleaBag]

There's a few people working on getting the AJAX Shoutbox on vB.org integrated into the CMPS. In fact, I think there are some details in the Hacks & Modifications forum here.

[gothic1213]

There's a few people working on getting the AJAX Shoutbox on vB.org integrated into the CMPS. In fact, I think there are some details in the Hacks & Modifications forum here.
Theonly problem with that one is that it's virtually impossible to configure it well enough to work in a side panel on the portal. Damn shame as it's pretty good.

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[FleaBag]

What exactly's the issue with the sidebar? I haven't implimented this myself yet, but I was planning to, as a side module.