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Create A Forum => Suggestions => Topic started by: epic_lad on July 23, 2013, 05:49:10 pm

Title: Recieve Instant shouts without reload
Post by: epic_lad on July 23, 2013, 05:49:10 pm
hello guys.
I want to suggest about modification of shoutbox in ezportal. I have got a shoutbox on my forums esa.createaforum.com. But there is a problem with shoutbox that when someone shout i.e. Hi. We can't see their shout unless we refrest or reload the forums. If this shoutbox allows us to have instant chat without reloadin the whole page it will be great. I have seen such shoutbox on other free forums web i.e. Pro boards forum shoutbox is like this.
Title: Re: Recieve Instant shouts without reload
Post by: WholesaleChat on July 23, 2013, 06:01:15 pm
I think thats a paid-for add on. I have the paid Ajax Chat Room, and it works like you suggest
Title: Re: Recieve Instant shouts without reload
Post by: epic_lad on July 23, 2013, 09:28:21 pm
actually no, if you go to ezportal settings there is written "Shoutbox refresh time in seconds (Enter zero to
 disable)" by defualt it has 0 value in it. But i entered 1 but it still not working. Because if the shoutbox refresh after every 1 second i would be able to recieve instant replies with 1 second delay. But its not happening.
Title: Re: Recieve Instant shouts without reload
Post by: WholesaleChat on July 23, 2013, 09:44:29 pm
well, I don't think that it could really refresh in 1 second - even hitting the browser refresh button takes longer than that. As far as I'm aware, nothing on the forum is displayed in real time, the browser page has to be refreshed each time. I have banner adverts with about 10 different banners, but it will only show a different banner each time the page is refreshed.
Title: Re: Recieve Instant shouts without reload
Post by: aIURbliS on July 23, 2013, 10:48:59 pm
actually no, if you go to ezportal settings there is written "Shoutbox refresh time in seconds (Enter zero to
 disable)" by defualt it has 0 value in it. But i entered 1 but it still not working. Because if the shoutbox refresh after every 1 second i would be able to recieve instant replies with 1 second delay. But its not happening.
I believe that feature is disabled here due to bandwidth concerns.
Title: Re: Recieve Instant shouts without reload
Post by: CreateAForum on July 24, 2013, 01:05:07 am
It is also browser dependent I think I use an iframe to reload
Title: Re: Recieve Instant shouts without reload
Post by: epic_lad on July 24, 2013, 07:29:01 pm
well, I don't think that it could really refresh in 1 second - even hitting the browser refresh button takes longer than that. As far as I'm aware, nothing on the forum is displayed in real time, the browser page has to be refreshed each time. I have banner adverts with about 10 different banners, but it will only show a different banner each time the page is refreshed.
Its not like this that function just only refresh the shoutbox and its not alot and its totally different from reloading the whole page.
I think this function is disabled as it is not working even i tried 5 seconds in value box. Admin should have a look.
Title: Re: Recieve Instant shouts without reload
Post by: aIURbliS on July 25, 2013, 12:55:14 am
It is also browser dependent I think I use an iframe to reload
But Internet Explorer 6 is the only browser that has a decent market but doesn't support xmlhttprequest, couldn't you simply write an if statement for it?