Lightweight MyBB AJAX-based chat with simplified interface and ACP-configurable functionality, permissions and optimizations.

Major features:

• smileys and MyCode parsing
  
• away mode (turns off autorefreshing when user is inactive for a specified period of time)
  
• antiflood control
  
• minimum forum posts to shout
  
• blocking specified users from shouting
  
• advanced group permissions system (to view, shout, auto-refresh, moderate, moderate own messages)
  
• lazy load
  
• archive mode with moderation panel (banned users, shouts pruning) and IP information
  
• auto-synchronization of edited & deleted messages
  
• unread messages tracking
  

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Installation

This plugin requires PHP version 5.4 or higher.
The installation is not fully automatic so the plugin will not mess with your styles or templates. Complete the following steps to set up the plugin:

1. Upload
   Upload the files from UPLOAD to your MyBB root directory.
   
2. CSS Code
   Copy the CSS included in the package (STYLES.txt) into your theme stylesheets (for example global.css).
   
3. {$dvz_shoutbox}
   Insert the {$dvz_shoutbox} variable into your index template (Index Page Templates of your theme).
   
4. Install the plugin in the ACP
   

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Official addons

Sound notification for DVZ Shoutbox 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 2.3.x

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Suggestions and general feedback: http://community.mybb.com/thread-156080.html