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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 very 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

Don't want to steal the other author's thunder though ! :)

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 cols=20 rows=2:)
%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:)%%-'

Release Notes

• 12/06/08
  • Initial release.
  • Added summary message to show up in Recent Changes

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 November 23, 2008, at 06:20 AM

22-Nov-2008 DaveG: Not sure what the intent of "cols" and "rows" on the INPUT tag is, but the correct attribute for INPUT tags would be "size" -- you can't really define 'rows' for INPUTs. Thus:

%center%(:input text class=shoutbox shout size=40:)