Apr 17th, 2006
YShout Enabled
I have recently discovered a neat PHP and AJAX powered, Web 2.0 standards compliant, Non-Intrusive shoutbox called YShout. It’s open source and anyone can download and install in onto their PHP supported webserver. Since the Yshout is AJAX powered you do not have to refresh the page, it’s dynamic! I just need to figure out how to format in to be in my sidebar. Anyway feel free to check it out on my site HERE.
I have changed the ability to see the persons IP address in the chat so that a person can not spoof another persons nickname. I also changed the log file extension to .html rather than .txt so that you can view the file correctly in a web browser. Here is a copy of my modified YShout: Modified YShout
To install all you have to do is install the yshout folder onto your webserver and it’s ready to go. Just point your browser to the folder and there you have it!
i’m not sure how useful it is until it gets some form of authentication. I think we demonstrated it’s spamming weakness (as well as the fact that the original demo was pulled for that same reason). It’s a great idea but with a weak implementation. I’d rather see it as an RSS reader built into a sidebar. That’d be nice.
I sort of fixed the ability to spam it by spoofing someone else’s nickname. Next to the Nickname I included the IP address during the chat. Anyway it’s a neat utility.
cool. much more useful now.