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MGC Chatbox (with AJAX)

Last version - MGC Chatbox Evo available : here

Description

When I had left the vBulletin world, I was in the past the co-author of a little chatbox (shoutbox), very well known in the vBulletin world.
This chatbox had been developed by Svaliotti (known as Poseidon on vb.org) for vB2 in the past and I had made the porterage (with is authorisation as we were both members of the same french non-official support forum) and the improvement for vB3.

It is thus normal that in my return in the vBulletin world, I begin by getting down to this hack. Even if several versions of chatbox are already present in the vBulletin world, I said to myself that it would be a good thing to make a made in France.

Naturally, I don't deal with a "copy" version of the other chatbox, I have any coded at the beginning (it was preferable because the front code wasn't so clean any more), and I integrated a good quantity of very interesting features.

New version features

The new version contains all the features from the previous version. Description of these versions can be found in Sofia's post hereabove (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1257510&postcount=3).

Modifications from previous version are the following :

1.5 :
- Fixed bugs :
  - Chatbox is shown two times in full page mode when the Display on all pages under the navbar option is selected.
  - "Fermer" is not in a sentence.
  - Overflow problem with Netscape.
  - Uppercase transformed to lowercase in the PM channel.
  - The ban cron debans user indefinitly banned.
  - Chatbox continuously loading on some forums.
  - Inactivity and guests problem.
  - Team icon blinking is not working properly.
  - Coma error in the who is online.
  - 2 spaces instead of one between the date and the time.
- New functionnalities :
  - Option to deactivate the random smilies.
  - Option to deactivate the automatic PM sending when banning a user.
  - New permission to allow or not the downloading of shouts.
  - Option to specify the name under which unregistered users shouts appear.
  - Syntax change for the /ban, /ignore, /del, /pm commands : Possibility to use them with the username or the userid (For more information about the new syntax, check the help button in the chatbox).
- Removed functionnalities :
  - vBAdvanced integration [TEMPORARLY] => See this for integration with this version https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=163628

This hack is very light in term of queries : only one for every recharging / refreshment of the chatbox and 5 for the statistics in the load of the page if you actiate them. If you don't activate advanced options of course as stated aside each in the acp :)

Installation

Read the file "Installation" in the pack.

Once the installation is ended, go in usergroups and edit permissions to see the Chatbox.

By default, no group has access to the chatbox.

Screenshots

The screenshots are in french as I have made it on an online website which is in french. Don't hesitate to give me new one if you want in english :)

They are up to date of 1.3 version.

See the following post : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1292136&postcount=559

User manual

Coming soon ...

Copyright

This hack is under copyright MGC (Mtor&Grog Corporation) 2007-forever and was developed for vBulletin-Resources.com & vb-hacks.org. Its redistribution on another forum that vbulletin-ressources.com, vb-hacks.org or vbulletin.org are prohibited without aggreement of the authors!

Evolutions and improvements

This sixth version of the chatbox is already very complete, but like each product, its evolution depends on all. Then don't hesitate especially to share your ideas of improvements so that we can improve even more this chatbox.

Languages

Actually available :

French
English
Arabic [Translator : alessai]
German [Translator : captainslater]
Vietnamese [Translator : Anhyeu12000]
Turkish [Translator : neutralizer and bocek]
Spanish [Translator : obmob] [TO BE UPDATED FOR 1.5]

To be available [Translation in progress] :

Bosnian [Translator : Benjaminbih]

[FONT='Calibri','sans-serif']For the translators : phrases with version number 1.5 in the English language file are the one that have been modified or added in the new version so you should probably find the modification for your language file easily.[/font]

Contact me if you want to participate and add your own country language file :)

Support

Several possible problems are explained in the file "Read Me" ;)
Chatbox in iBProarcade and vBadvanced CMPS

See the readme file for iBProarcade.

For vbadvanced, a module is available here : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=163628.

FAQ

Q: I installed the chatbox but it doesn't display
R: Check if you have allowed users (permissions in usergroups)

Q: I see shouts but in the collapsed chatbox
R: You can specify number of shouts in the collapsed chatbox. If you don't want to see it, put "0" for this option.

Q: The chatbox doesn't display below or in the top of one of the pages while in the other position it displays
R: You use a style and it's possible that variables used in templates aren't present. (Read the file "Read Me")

Q: I have a problem with accents in the Chatbox
R: Read the file "Read Me"

Q: How to change the value of color for date and for command /me?
R: When you add additionnal CSS for each style, you can change color in class CSS.

Thanks to Sofia for her earlier help on the chatbox.

You can donate if you want to show your support

Last version - MGC Chatbox Evo available : here

Good job,looks great!Installing it now,thank you!

*Clicks Install*

*Edited:Installed and works perfectly fine on 367PL1!Installation is easy and less than a minute!:)

Older version features

1.0 : Creation of the first version
- MGC Chatbox Options:
  - Enable/Disable of the Chatbox
  - Chatbox Height and Widht of the field input
  - Choose the number of messages in collapsed chatbox and expanded chatbox
  - Enable/Disable automatic refreshment and you can specify a value of refreshment.
  - Allow text formatting BBCODE, URL and IMG
  - You can choose the number of smilies on the menu
  - Choice of number of smilies that an user can use in his shouts
  - You can choose the date color of the Chatbox
  - Display the chatbox on index, in the forums or in the theads
  - Choose the position of the chatbox on index/forums/threads
  - Enable/Disable command /me, choice of the command color
  - Enable/Disable command /team, choice of command color and usergroups who can see and use it
  - You can specify which usergroups can manage his shouts (delete and edit)
  - Enable/Disable the display of Chatbox statistics on the index
  - You can choose the number of days for the automatic deletion of messages (cron)
  - You can consult the archives of Chatbox
  - Choice of the number of messages per page for the archives
- Usergroups permissions:
  - Usergroups who can use the Chatbox
  - You can specify a number of posts that an user must have to use the Chatbox
  - Usergroups who can manage his shouts
- Banishment of users via the users manager
- Enable/Disable the automatic deletion of old messages with the scheduled tasks manager
- Automatic sending of a private message to the banned user
- You can edit shouts by double-clicking on them in the Chatbox or in archives (AJAX)
- Deletion of shouts via a little red cross in archives (AJAX)
- Automatic/manual refreshment of Chatbox (AJAX)
- Sending shouts without the loading of page (AJAX)
- You can download archives in TXT, CSV or XML
Version 1.1:
- Fixed bugs:
  - Enlarge Chatbox when you click on the display of BBCODES (IE)
  - Problem with the display of smilies (IE)
  - Display statistics in archives
  - Automatic parse of url when BBCODE URL is allowed
- New features:
  - Banishment via the Chatbox with 3 new commands : /ban, /deban and /showban)
  - Automatic MP sending on user ban
  - You can see all banned users with the command /showban
  - You can ban an user for a specific period (you can lift a ban automatically by a scheduled task)
  - You can display the Chatbox on a full page (you can specify the full page chatbox height)
  - Add a chatbox menu in navbar when you enable the display of full page Chatbox
  - Split of shouts in two tabs: one for the general messages and the other one for shouts /team (use 2 channels)
  - BBCODE color is now included for the shouts /team
  - Colors of shouts /me et and shouts date for each style via the CSS
  - Options in the user profile for the selection of default font, color and size
  - You can add an announcement at the top of the Chatbox (for rules for example)
- Deleted features:
  - Banishment via the users manager in the admincp
  - Color of command /team
Version 1.2 :
- Fixed Bugs:
  - Problem with CSS overflow with Opera and Safari
  - Full mode permissions
  - Strange number of queries when unregistered users
  - Prevent downloads shouts when there isn't
  - Fonts size in Statistics
- New features:
  - Command /del all independent according to channels (when the two channels are enabled).
  - Users can choose to display chatbox in the usercp (options).
  - Default BBcode B, I and U in usercp (options).
  - You can choose the number of users for the Top X Shouters.
  - Choose the display order of shouts (Newest or oldest at the top).
  - You can choose the editor position in the Chatbox (at the top or below).
  - Adding command /annonce. You can manage announce in the chatbox (and in the options).
  - You can choose to use chatbox with two channels (normal and team) or simply one general channel and team shouts appear in this channel.
  - You can change chatbox title.
  - New usergroups permissions for commands like team and me, ...
  - Enable/disable date in the chatbox.
  - You can specify users who can use command /team (if they don't have permissions in their usergroup).
  - Specify your team prefix (appear in the chatbox) when the team channel is disabled.
  - Choose your date format for the chatbox.
- Deleted features:
  - Deletion of options for users can manage chatbox and use command /team (based on usergroups permissions now).

Version 1.3

Fixed bugs :
- Ksort function error when chatbox is empty.
- Error in the top shouters phrase in the archives.
- Italic selection in the user control panel not taken into account.
- Date local problem in the chatbox depending on server (% necessary and some server while not on others) - Thanks to Dream from here.
- Browser sent to the top when clicking on a smiley on some forums (now a click on the smiley bump the browser to the top of the chatbox).
- In the oldest shouts first mode, the scrolling bar is not at the bottom thus forcing the user to scroll in order to view new shouts.
- "Can view" permission only not working properly.
- Team image disapearance when clicking on it on IE6.
New features :
- All chatbox buttons redesigned - Thanks to Raz from vbulletin-ressources.com
- Opacity effect on select channel button.
- New option to add a delete cross directly aside the shouts (in addition to the one in the archives).
- Selection of the maximum size selectable by users for the SIZE BBCODE.
- New option to select the items the users can choose for the default shouts formatting in their user control panel.
- /announce command added as an equivalent of the /annonce one.
- Possibility to hide the refresh displaying elements (animated gif and refresh button).
- New options to hide the time or the date or both.
- Option to activate the chatbox on all the pages (all or define ones through a list). Two implementation possibilities :
  - Above the navbar.
  - Or in the $mgc_chatbox global variable which can be used in the pages corresponding templates.
- Idle mode which permits to disable the refresh of the chatbox when a user hasn't participated to the chatbox since a define time period (timeout). Can be enable/disabled from the acp, along with the time period value.
- Dropdown menu in the archives to show only team shouts (if user has the right) or only generals or both.
- Warning system when a new shout is available in the team channel with the chatbox in 2 channels mode (animated gif). Both activation/deactivation and time period for the new shouts presence checks can be done within the acp.
- /ignore (ignore shouts from a particular user), /showignore (view ignored users list), /deignore (remove a user from your ignored users list) commands added.
- New channel activable from the acp to allow defined usergroups to view who is actually online in the chatbox.
- Split of options in four groups.
Removed features :
- None

1.4 :
- Fixed bugs :
- Removed features :
  Aucune

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sofia (Post 1257510)

Reserved....:D Good job my darling ;)

Good job too darling :p I post it thanks to your job on the french to english translation :)

thanks !
a lot of options [including display modes] makes this hack a very useful code
joao barroca
aka beduino

Quote:

Originally Posted by VBDev (Post 1257512)

Good job too darling :p I post it thanks to your job on the french to english translation :)

I made it with pleasure :o

In the Admincp options,there's the option for Refreshment Time (in seconds).Does that mean when other users enter their shouts,we wont see their shouts instantly until the shoutbox automatically refresh itself in the given value?

Yes you are right ! Anyway, you can set this time as you like but I don't think thats it is absolutoly mandatory to see the shout immediatly as it's only a chatbox not a chat :)

Anyway you can set it to the value you want so you've full freedom on this :)

Thanks! I installed it and works smoothly.

i like it
good job

Thanks

Quote:

Originally Posted by VBDev (Post 1257535)

Thanks,i got it.Very feature-rich chatbox!:up:
What's the Team Channel button for anyway?:confused:

On the chatbox, some usergroup are able to use the command called "/team" (usergroup parameter in the vbulletin options for the chatbox).

The chat sent with this command are shown in the Team channel ;)

I have done this coz when lots of people speak in the day you might miss some important team messages. So with the separation of the channels, this problem is solved (I plan to do an alert in the next version which tell the user that a new chat has been sent on this channel).

However, user are not obliged to you the /team prefix for their messages when they are located in the team channel.

installed!!! thanks...!! looks good!!!

Great mod! I'm going to install it.

I have left column blocks on my forumhome.Right now,the chatbox is sitting right on top of everything,on the left column blocks and my forums on the right.
How do i make it that the left column blocks sits on the left all the way up,while the chatbox sits on top of my forums on the right?:confused:

e.g see my screenshot

*Edited: Here's how you can solve that

Go in the admincp
-In the plugin manager, open the forumhome_complete plugin in the chatbox product
-Find $navbar and replace it by $chatbox_forumhome
-Then in your FORUMHOME template, add $chatbox_forumhome where you want the chatbox to appear

Thank you VBDev!:up::)

You told me about the integration in arcade main page, you spoke about ibproarcade or vbarcade one?

I could try to do it but not sure I got the time for it :( I have a lot of things to do.

How Can We Have This On All Pages

Actually you can't, but I plan to add an option for this in the next version.

Quote:

Originally Posted by VBDev (Post 1257677)

You told me about the integration in arcade main page, you spoke about ibproarcade or vbarcade one?

I could try to do it but not sure I got the time for it :( I have a lot of things to do.

I'm using ibproarcade.It'll be nice and useful to have in there i think.
:)

And when is that due out

@ Adam21 : Yes I'll look that for the next version

I think the new version will be out in 2 weeks coz I am actually working on other projects :)

I have installed this beautiful, beautiful hack.
This is BOSS!
Chatbox V1.7 is an excellent simple chatbox. Inferno Shoutbox Lite had many attributes but was too server intensive for my forum. Couldn't get EWT vBChat to work.
Not to worry, now, though.
MGC Chatbox Rules!
Salue to VBDev!

Hi

Installation has failed a tiny bit.

The navbar is not how it should be

here is part of my navbar code where the template changes are

Code:

<!-- / nav buttons bar -->



<br />

$adv_navbars

<br />

<if condition="$show['forumdesc']">

    <table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

    <tr>

        <td class="alt1" width="100%"><strong>$foruminfo[title]</strong> <span class="smallfont">$foruminfo[description]</span></td>

    </tr>

    </table>

    <br />

</if>



<if condition="$show['popups']">

<if condition="$vboptions[mgc_chatbox] && $chatbox_permission">

    <td id="mgc_cb" class="vbmenu_control">

        <a href="#">$vbphrase[mgc_chatbox]</a>

        <script type="text/javascript">

            vbmenu_register("mgc_cb");

        </script>

    </td>

</if>

<!-- NAVBAR POPUP MENUS -->



<if condition="$vboptions[mgc_chatbox] && $chatbox_permission">

    <div class="vbmenu_popup" id="mgc_cb_menu" style="display:none">

        <table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">

            <tr>

                <td class="thead">$vbphrase[mgc_chatbox]</td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td class="vbmenu_option">

                    <a href="mgc_chatbox.php?$session[sessionurl]do=view_chatbox" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[mgc_cb_voir]</a>

                </td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td class="vbmenu_option">

                    <a href="mgc_chatbox.php?$session[sessionurl]do=view_archive" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[mgc_cb_voir_archives]</a>

                </td>

            </tr>        

        </table>

    </div>

</if>

Please see the image as to what is happening

Any advice please?

Quote:

Originally Posted by bashy (Post 1257699)

Hi

Installation has failed a tiny bit.

The navbar is not how it should be

here is part of my navbar code where the template changes are

Please see the image as to what is happening

Any advice please?

I think you have installed a hack to add links to the navbar so the code is slightly different for you, no ?

If yes, you have to add a new menu called MGC Chatbox and then add the two following links:

name : $vbphrase[mgc_cb_voir]
url: mgc_chatbox.php?$session[sessionurl]do=view_chatbox

name : $vbphrase[mgc_cb_voir_archives]
url: mgc_chatbox.php?do=view_archive

Great !!

Congrat poulet ;)

I'm not generally a fan of chatboxes.. but this one is lovely!
*clicks install*

is there anyway to get the messages to show up in ascending order... when i was running vbshout it would allow me to switch between new messages on top or bottom, and i want them on the bottom.

Nop actually there are not but I will do it :)

Anyway you could be a little more polite ;) I would ;)

Great work on this :D

Quote:

Originally Posted by whitemike (Post 1257748)

Great work on this :D

Hi, Mike :D yes, it's a good work, isn't it ? I am proud of him :p

Very nice hack. Well done.

Can chat box show in every page ??

Quote:

Originally Posted by RFViet (Post 1257814)

Can chat box show in every page ??

At present, You can display chatbox on index / forums / threads. And you can display the Chatbox in a full page.

For all pages, Mtor plan to add this option in the next version of the Chatbox ;)

Hi, actually i think i will have to pass on this one, it adds 6 queries to forumhome, thanks any way, tis a big shame really as its a very good addition to any forum, well done!!

I've installed the chatbox at the bottom of my forumhome. Is it normal that every time I click on a smiley I automatically will be returned to the very top of the page (the smiley code appears correctly)? I think this could be a problem for some of my chat-junkies. ;-)

Is it possible to have the editor on the bottom instead of the top? If so how would I do that?

@ bashy :
It add 6 queries if you activate he stats ! It is said in the admincp that it adds lot of queries.

If you deactivate them, the chatbox takes only 1 query !!

@ Zeitgeist :

This is maybe due to the fact that the link on the smileys is a link with ref = #top and an onclick event. Open the functions_mgc_cb.php file in the includes directory and remove #top in the getchatboxsmileys function.

@1337_macro : in the next version yes

Awesome job on this man! Marked as installed installed.
But, I can't use it because it is slowing down some of my users browsers. Whenever it loads it will make everything slow down. If you are entering text in the text box when it loads it will just freeze up or slow way down.

Quote:

Originally Posted by da420 (Post 1257887)

Awesome job on this man! Marked as installed installed.
But, I can't use it because it is slowing down some of my users browsers. Whenever it loads it will make everything slow down.

Really ? None of our users on vbulletin-ressources.com have experienced that during the past 2 month.

What is their browser ?

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