Originally Posted by osso12

I am not the author of shoutbox.
I do not remember how I did mine, but this should work, a it works with arcade shout and this is another way of putting it on all pages:
To install, first open the plugin manager, and find the vBShout [Template Alteration] hook. Open it for editing. Replace all of the code inside with:
Then open up the Header template, and go to the very bottom, and add this:
After that is done, you will have a shoutbox on all pages! It works fully, aswell. To change the name,
Find in the above code:

And change the text saying ShoutBoxX.
To change the size, find:

And change the height value.


All done! Everything should be working, and you will have a shoutbox on all pages!

Originally Posted by novelidea

This isn't working for me with 3.6.3.

Originally Posted by anime_layer

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.