Griever - Shoutmix, cbox and the like have fallen from the glory they knew about three years ago. In fact, all the shoutbox services have. It's really sad.
The best shoutboard I've seen is here:
http://www.aetheriavisio.com But it was coded by my friend's boyfriend and it uses myslq and all that stuff, which I'm not sure I wanted to mess with just for a shoutbox (unless it is, in fact, easy, like phpbb).
Margo - I'll check those out!
EDIT: Looks like I might have to go the MySQL route. It's been a while. c_c;
Well, I think I'm turning this into a free-php-based-scripts thread, because I remembered I have yet to find a working
"# people are online" script, or a
text-based counter script, either. Or a
news script that doesn't cost $50 to remove the "watermark" from.
Edit the second:
http://senshuu.com/copymain.phpXepher, why do shoutbox non-input areas (where the text is supposed to be) keep showing up like this for me? If I can figure that out, I could probably use one of my other shoutboard scripts that I thought had failed. (One of them almost worked, but instead only let me post once and/or failed to refresh. It also would go white if I changed something.)