JustShout! my php & gd based shoutbox

helraizer · 03-30-2008, 11:50 AM

Hey all,

I've been working on this project for a while now, it was originally called 'MyChat' or 'MyChatbox' but it was more along the lines of a shoutbox, than a chatbox so it has been named 'JustShout!'.

The entire concept of it is an image based shoutbox. Usual/traditional shoutboxes are hosted on the user's website and can only be viewed on that one page on that one site, this is 'portable' in a sense; you can link to it in any site/forum.

For instance, these following images are hosted on my site but can be viewed here.

- full sized - a working example can be found on my myspace page here

-or-

- JustShout! mini

At the moment the following things have been implimented:

-Registered users get both JustShout! and JustShout!Mini shoutboxes.
-Choice of 6 fonts and 5 colours to add variety to posts.
-The shoutbox author (user who's shoutbox it is) can delete posts the don't want in their shoutbox.
-Users (registered or not) who have posted in a shoutbox can edit and/or delete their posts.
-The image and form can be included on a myspace page so users can post directly from MySpace.

Coming soon:
-User CP:
-users will be able to make their shoutbox different dimensions.
-users will be able to make a personalised censor list to filter posts with words they may find offensive.
-users will be able to upload their own background, choose different fonts and colours.

So, what do you guys (and gals) think?

Can you think of any other cool tools and 'things' I could impliment to make it better/more accessible/'cooler'?

Sam

CrazeD · 03-30-2008, 10:02 PM

That's a great idea! Nice job.

helraizer · 03-31-2008, 12:17 PM

Thanks

Can you think of any new features I could add? =)

Sam

CrazeD · 03-31-2008, 12:39 PM

Maybe a timestamp next to their name/message?

I dunno, you pretty much got it covered. I can't really think of anything else.

helraizer · 03-31-2008, 02:45 PM

Ooh, that's a good idea. I'll give it a go. I'll try and get the time stamps all one colour, instead of changing colour with the post.. Should be a challenge.. I'll do it.

Thanks for the idea.

Sam

Yek · 03-31-2008, 03:11 PM

Pretty Nifty

What's wrong with good old IFrames

You need to look at this from a spammers point of view

Good Job
~ Tkey

helraizer · 03-31-2008, 03:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tkey

Pretty Nifty

What's wrong with good old IFrames

~ Tkey

How do you mean?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tkey

You need to look at this from a spammers point of view

Good Job

users can only post once every 60 seconds, so you'd have to be a very bored spammer to wait

Sam

Ewc1307 · 03-31-2008, 04:01 PM

Not being funny, but there's a million and one shoutboxes out there that people can customise themselves.

Sure it looks nice, but i'd need something unique for me to use it.

Good work though

Constructive Criticism!

Yek · 03-31-2008, 04:30 PM

Spammers don't mind waiting 60 seconds, if there URL is out there they dont care!

Talking of URL's, do we have link functionality!

(The IFrames was a joke, you say it can be used anywhere provided you have the code. An IFrame can display a remote shoutbox anywhere also

)

You may want to move this off your myspace, PM me the code and ill host it for you if you like. The "You are moving away from MySpace - This is not a MySpace login page" kills it sometimes

~ Tkey