Hey. I am trying to make a custom page for my forum to place a chat box. How would I do this and make it so only members can access it? Thanks.
easiest way is via a plugin ... nickman has developed one avail at mybbsource . allows permissions etc.
for using chatbox, shoutbox is the best idea,
rather to use a separate chat client , in that case it requires a database to run
In this plugin you need to have a sufficient knowledge to have a .php file
good, It also need some basic HTML knowledge though