caerostris/van2shout

[discontinued] A simple shoutbox for vanilla2

Van2Shout: shoutbox for Vanillaforums

A simple shoutbox for vanilla2 with support for different groups and private messages.

Private messages

Start your message with /w {Username} or /msg {Username} to PM somebody

Emoticons

CSS emoticon integration helps you express your feelings

Group based colours

Want your Administrators to shine in bright red? No problem, just set the the colour on the settings page.

Support for firebase

With firebase, the shoutbox works incredibly smooth and fast!

Development

Keno Schwalb

Contributors

lifeisfoo
peregrine
izifortune Lars Sander

Thanks

Many thanks to
hgtonight
vrijvlinder
peregrine
who regularly help out people at vanillaforums.org
Lars Sander - for the gorgeous icon design

###License GPL v3

van2shout's Issues

firebase private message recipients are case sensitive

the user Caerostris won't receive a private message sent to caerostris because firebase is case sensitive.
Just transforming all PM recipients to lower case won't do the trick as it would say "PM to caerostris" instead of "PM to Caerostris" then. (big deal, but still...)

Online user count

Feature request by jeongwee @ vanillaforums.org
Display the number of users currently online somewhere next to the shoutbox.
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/25308/some-suggestions-for-this-plugin#latest

colour select drop down does not open with current setting as default

Spam protection

Add a spam protection by limiting messages per second

Request: URL parsing in messages

Would love to get urls parsed as links in messages.

Annoying sound for new messages

Feature request by Dr_Sommer @ vanillaforums.org:
Hi! Are there any plans for integrating Sounds to the Shoutbox? So if one User shouts, there would be a "Ping" ? If this is not integrated and you find it a good feature that would be great.. ;) And don't forget an OFF Button.. ;)
Greetz,
Dr. Sommer
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/24719/sound-for-shoutbox#latest

display the shoutbox on a separate page

display the shoutbox on a separate page

Role permissions safed in the Firebase token

When changing role permissions, there is no way to update the firebase tokens except for manually deleting them from the database. Just a small button on Van2Shout's settings page would suffice.

Problem with UTF8 chars

Sending a message like "chars è others" will result in the message "chars".

If the message starts witha a char like these (èéìùò etc) the message is blank.

colour settings don't work when using firebase

When the firebase backend is enabled, changing the colour in the profile settings has no effect at all

private messages stay at the bottom when using firebase

Support for pictures and videos

I'm considering support for pictures and/or videos in a future version.
As @melaur already pointed out in #17 though, bandwidth might become a problem...

XSS vulnerability

Shoutbox is vulnerable to encoded XSS

Example:
ASCII:

<script>alert("XSS")</script>

Encoded:
%3C%73%63%72%69%70%74%3E%61%6C%65%72%74%28%22%58%53%53%22%29%3C%2F%73%63%72%69%70%74%3E

Looks like this has been an issue for some time
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/83425

Problem with special characters

I have installed Van2Shout with:
Vanilla forum 2.1.6
The Server and Vanilla are in Italian.
I have an issue with special characters: "ò, à, è, ì, ù". They are displayed as "ò, à , è, ì, ù ".

Too many requests for emoji

Hi devs,

This emoji import structure is wrong, think there is an forum which will have on chat over 50 people and there will be 4 emoji listed than there will be 200 requests for 4 emoji instand of 1. Try to use all emoji in one sprite and to use sprite structures for display to save requests, something like this http://is.gd/jseNd8 .

2 bug fixes. forbidden setting and emoji fix

to allow non-root admin roles to go to settings page

change

in class.van2shout.plugin.php
from:
public function SettingsController_Van2Shout_Create($Sender) {
$Sender->Permission('Garden.Plugins.Manage');
to:
public function SettingsController_Van2Shout_Create($Sender) {
$Sender->Permission('Garden.Settings.Manage');

to allow emoji to show images when viewing from category, etc

for the js

plugins/Van2Shout/js/emojify.min.js

I added the gdn.definition('WebRoot')+ "/" +

@Caerostris @‌woft more dynamic...

change...

*/!function(a){var b=function(){function b(a){return" "===a||" "===a||"\r"===a||"\n"===a||""===a}function c(a,b,c){var d=i.createElement("img");d.setAttribute("title",":"+c+":"),d.setAttribute("class","emoji"),d.setAttribute("src",q.img_dir

to

*/!function(a){var b=function(){function b(a){return" "===a||" "===a||"\r"===a||"\n"===a||""===a}function c(a,b,c){var d=i.createElement("img");d.setAttribute("title",":"+c+":"),d.setAttribute("class","emoji"),d.setAttribute("src",gdn.definition('WebRoot')+ "/" + q.img_dir

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/26834/smileys-403-forbidden-on-any-page-but-category-overview-page

When using Firebase, empty messages are being sent to database

Every time I click Send it posts a blank message.

Unable to delete messages in Vanilla 2.3

The title says all, when you try to delete an entry from the shoutbox in Vanilla 2.3, it says "Message deleted" and....
Still here.
I'll try to find the problem, If I fix it, I'll send a pull request.

Cannot delete messages when using firebase

Delete private messages

It seems as if the private messages can't be deleted. Now they are polluting the bottom chat lines, so that new messages of other users can't be read if you have a higher count of private messages and a "regular" chat window height. They also stay for users when they logout or leave the chat but come back.

Can you add an "x" or similar to throw away read private messages?

www.VanillaSkins.com likes to sponsor: Private Message Deletion, any other ideas in the pipe for Van2Shout?

Ascending / Descending order for messages

Add an option to display new messages at the top, not at the bottom

cannot delete messages when using firebase

The current firebase security rules do not allow messages to be deleted.

reset firebase tokens on upgrade

Old firebase tokens might cause issues after upgrading when the token schema changes.

CSS Emoticons freeze firefox

Using the CSS emoticon jQuery plugin to render the smiley freezes firefox for a few seconds