I would like to have the timestamp back, possibly as an option - on/off. It worked OK in 2.0

Bob

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I have a question i posted @ vb.org thinking your version 2.1 was there.. but found it was here instead...

What i want to be able to do is have this shoutbox in my staff forum ONLY.
OR....
Have it in 2 forums ONLY instead of the main page.?


thanks

Do somebody knows how to fix to allow characters like this "ñ" with vb 3.6.3 ?

Can this mod be installed on 3.5.6? Cuz thats what my forums are...

Thanks a lot!!

no ignore option then?

Hope I'm not requesting something that has already been covered, but is there any way of limiting what is shown?

There are two examples that can seriously distort the Shoutbox - especially if your using the CMPS module hack to display the vbShout on your CMPS page.

Images - Any way to prevent, or better yet, RESIZE them automatically?
URLS - Any way of to auto-trim URLs down to abbreviated links?

I did some modifications to the current version.

1. My german board didn't display special characters (e.g. äöü) correctly in the shoutbox (they displayed fine in the archive).

This is because the flatfile is read before the vB-initialization and thus no Content-type header and no charset is being sent to the browser:
You could either move the if-block below the require_once's or add the following line above "echo $content;":
(And change the carset to whatever your board is set to).

2. I don't really get why timestamps have been disabled. There's no reason why they couldn't be added to the flatfile.

To add timestamps back in, you have to edit the forumhome_vbshout_shout template and add "{$Shout['time']}" wherever you want the timestamp to be. I didn't want the date in the shoutbox so I also modified the buildTime function:
and in the rewrite_shoutbox_flatfile function you have to change
to
This way, only the time will be displayed in the shoutbox but the whole date in the archive.

anime_layer , Do you mean this will let the arabic language seen in the vBShout ?
beacuse i have the some problem its only show in the archive but in the box its rabbish !!