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FoxShoutboxAlternative

Questions answered by this recipe

• How do I implement a basic shoutbox on my wiki, which allows user communication ?

Description

Fox forms shoutbox

Notes

The solution on Shoutbox is nice, but I added some improvements due to problems I encountered whilst implementing it on a personal wiki:

• Input checking: Checks whether or not sensible (non-spaces) input was given
• Link to author profile: Adds a link to the author profile to the message
• Success/Fail messages
• Summary message in recentchanges

Installation

Copy the following code on a page which you will provide to your users for entering shoutbox content. (The Sidebar, for example). You can change ShoutBox to a name of a page you'd like to post shouts to. Be sure that the Fox security settings were configured properly.

>>font-size:10px<<
(:include ShoutBox lines=8:)
>><<

(:if ! equal {$Author} "":)
(:fox shoutbox put=top target=ShoutBox foxsuccess='Posted succesfully !':)
(:foxcheck shout regex='\w' msg='No sensible input':)
(:input hidden author value='{$Author}' :) 
(:input hidden csum value='posted shoutbox message':)
%center%(:input text class=shoutbox shout size=20:)
%center%(:input submit post Submit:)
%right%[[ShoutBox | more]]
(:foxtemplate "'''[[Profiles/{$$author}]]''': {$$shout} - [-''{(ftime fmt="%d/%m %H:%M")}''-] [[<<]]":)
(:foxend shoutbox:)
(:if:)
'-%red%(:foxmessage shoutbox list=check:)%%-'
'-%green%(:foxmessage shoutbox list=nocheck:)%%-'

Screenshot (using Monobook theme)

Release Notes

• 12/06/08
  • Initial release.
  • Added summary message to show up in Recent Changes
• 11/05/09
  • Textfield fixes (thanks DaveG)
  • added screenshot

See Also

• Shoutbox

Contributors

Comments

Could you please provide an example of how it looks? (by the way, thanks for not locking this page's interaction as the author of regular shoutbox has). -Chris May 19, 2013, at 05:41 AM