il like Shoutbox of the forum ,and i would make one on my site web , not identical to the forum one ,I would make mine ,I think it isn't eisy but well i would have one to communicate with visitors of my site , but i don't know how to make one ,
can anybody help me , ...????

thinks ,and i hope there will answers to my question.

This post has been edited by aminzzlink: Jul 19 2005, 11:37 AM

First of all it shouldn't be made with Javascript but PHP (if you have it). There is a tutorial on here that dungsport made for his shoutbox that should help you out. There are many tutorials on the net about this, visit phpfreaks.com, or hotscripts.com. It would be a good idea to figure out how you want to store the shouts; text file or database? I find both ways pretty easy but Mysql database is easier to manage.

Dungsport tutorial:Shoutbox

If you dont want the hassle of creating your own or one from a tutorial then i suggest Shoutmix

Good luck.

In this day and age people rarely bother writing their own scripts like this

Shoutmix is great, the advert is only a textlink which is tiny and at the top. It is barebones featurewise but it is good enough for whatever purpose you are trying to serve.

There are also quite a large number of pre-made scripts on various PHP websites that you can just download, but I recommend for you not to get ones with a database because they are harder to install and rely on the databases being up.

Making a shoutbox isn't very easy if you don't have much basic php or mysql knowledge. Well i know i don't. So i skimmed the web for a simple yet easy to alter shoutbox script and i found one at www.tag-world.com.

Firstly, it's free.
Secondly, you get to edit just about anything in it.
Thirdly, you don't get the ads. (Well...you DO get'em but you can just erase the simple link back to the website.)
Fourthly, the shoutbox is simple and any other editing is done purely by HTML.

I used to have another pretty good and fast one at some site which i forgot. Well...turned out the site closed down so it DID appear on some old sarch engines but not on Google and even if it does there is no link to the site.
I previously reformatted my computer not long ago and found out i forgot to save my BOOKMARKS (Mozilla Firefox calls it Bookmarks). So i surrendered to the only other shoutbox website i knew - www.myshoutbox.com. It doesn't come with an ad but takes awhile to refresh.

These are just my past of what i found out about shoutboxes. and if you're asking - no i do NOT like www.tag-board.comwww.tag-board.com
although i have no idea why.....

those things are awesome

You can get a free one here: www.yellbox.com it's a very good one that you can configure like you want it.
Hope I helped
-=jeroen=-

See, I always prefer to have my scripts hosted on my own account. It just gives me a feeling of control that I know I can fully edit/delete it. Another remotey hosted shoutbox is Shoutmix but you have to pay to get it to auto-refresh (like the one on astahost). You can see the shoutmix box in action on my forum: IFF, although it's not being used, because my forum is still growing.

Indeed it is very interesting , i hope that will work , thank you for all, i 'm going to try your suggestion and i will shown my siteweb when it finish ,

thinks !!!!!


This post has been edited by aminzzlink: Jul 19 2005, 11:45 AM

I use php to just do it... You just download a free script from google and walla, you got one... Oh yea, there's ones that run on text files instead of databases so I recommend you use those

Try checking out http://www.shoutmix.com/main/ , It seems pretty simple if you are a begginer.

Have Fun