Chat Modifications - MGC Chatbox Evo

This mod is automatically compatible with vB3.6.x, vB3.7.x, vB3.8.x and vB4.x.x

Overview

MGC Chatbox Evo is the most ever installed chatbox for vBulletin !

It offers a new enhanced online experience to your members leading to increased time spent online of more than 25% by providing them with a new, more interactive, way to interact with each other.

• Important number of features
• High level of configurability to fit each users needs
• Channels system
• Many commands
• Bot system
• and more...

... makes MGC Chatbox Evo a must have for your forum !

Detailed features

Following is a non-exhaustive list:

• Simple install
• Ajax based with:
  • Fast and Intelligent chats retrieval through javascript calls to server files (refresh delay configurable per usergroup)
  • Edit/update by double-clicking on a chat
  • Interact on chats through menus and javascript
• Many usergroup permissions to limit features according to usergroups
• Full configuration of the chatbox display:
  Size, position on forum pages, editor layout (either top/bottom input or left/right textarea) and position, number of chats displayed, ...
• Full configuration of the chats display:
  Authorized bbcodes selection, date/time options, avatar display, ...
• Possibility to create channels (unlimited number) with multiple configuration options:
  • Warn user of new message when not active through blinking image and eventually sound notification
  • Possibility to select on which specific page each is displayed
  • Option to display the channel only for selected languages
  • Usergroup/User permissions to access the channel
• Many commands available with usergroup/user permissions to access them:
  • /me: well known IRC command
  • /del: remove shouts (different possibilities of removal)
  • /ignore: ignore shouts from another user
  • /ban: ban user from chatbox
  • /pm: send a private chat to another user
  • /announcement: modify the announcement on top of the chatbox
  • /slap: allow user to slap another user
  • /team: chats sending between specified usergroups
  • /l33t: I33t-ify a message
  • /banchan: ban user from specific channel [PRO only]
• Forum activity notifications system in the chatbox:
  • Different display options:
    • In the chatbox melted with chats
    • In the chatbox in a separate column
    • In the vB4 sidebar or a custom sidebar for vB3
  • Multiple notifications:
    • New thread creation
    • New post creation
    • Post thanked (Abe's)
    • New registrations (not included - separate product)
    • IBProarcade highscore (not included - separate product)
• Bot system with set of predefined trigger chat and corresponding answers and automatic bot chats [PRO only]
• Archive system with statistics as well as download and search capabilities
• Possibility to display the list of users online in the chatbox
• Force anynomous to enter a username before chatting if they can access the chatbox
• Antiflood system
• Private chats feature through PM in tabs
• Optional sound notifications
• Inactive mode feature for server load optimization
• User statistics display in posts and profile
• Chatbox statistics display on forumhome
• Create thread from a chat [PRO only]
• CMS Integration (not included - separate product)
  • vBAdvanced CMPS
  • vBulletin 4 CMS
• Importers from other chatbox systems:
  • cChatbox by Christrato [version 1.5]
  • Cyb - Chatbox by Cybernetec [version 2.3]
  • vBulletin 3.x Shoutbox 1.0 (AJAX) by DionDev [version 1.0]
  • Dream's Chatbox by Dream [version 2.1.1]
  • GSBOS by dinnerbone [version 1.0.5]
  • Inferno vBShout Lite 2.5.0 by Inferno Tech [version 2.5.1 lite]
  • vBShouts 2.0 by Zero Tolerance [version 2.0]
  • MGC Chatbox by MGC [version 1.5]

Install

Refer to the readme for the chatbox install.

Demo

Live demo on MGC Products forum

Languages

1. French
2. English
3. German [Not yet updated]
   
4. Serbian [Not yet updated]

Support

On my website mostly and in this thread

Int?gration

Integration in IBProarcade is described in the readme.
vBAdvanced CMPS and vBulletin 4 CMS integration are available as additional modules.

Compatibility

This hack is compatible with vB3.6.x, vB3.7.x, vB3.8.x and vB4.x.x

Changelog

First part:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=221

Second part:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=5429

Third part:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=8469

How to set the channel images

Thanks to princeedwards for this little how to : click here

PRO version and additional addons available on my website

This mod is automatically compatible with vB3.6.x, vB3.7.x, vB3.8.x and vB4.x.x

[soundbarrierpro]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Do you see the sent shouts in the admin ?

Do you get any error in your browser (javascript error) ?

Hi thank you for respond. I am admin to site and when I click to enter text, I ad my text. When I hit ok, I see nothing. I get no errors and there are no java script errors. My chat window just doesn't show anything I typed. When I click archive, There shows no evidence of anything ever entered. Thank you

This is what it looks like after it hits inactive mode

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by XiZa

You can see a screenshot of the dialog box here that is not displaying correctly in safari:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...7&d=1210106416

Ok I note it.

Originally Posted by soundbarrierpro

Hi thank you for respond. I am admin to site and when I click to enter text, I ad my text. When I hit ok, I see nothing. I get no errors and there are no java script errors. My chat window just doesn't show anything I typed. When I click archive, There shows no evidence of anything ever entered. Thank you

This is what it looks like after it hits inactive mode

Is it in inactive mode by default ?

[soundbarrierpro]

I check and edit with update in a sec

EDIT****Ok, checked everything. Inactive mode was on. I turn off but same problem still. I also turned off the default message in the text box. Nothing still show up when I enter message.

[soundbarrierpro]

Ok, change in plans.

I had to remove the mod because refreshing would blow out my templates or style. Don't know how to explain. Basically, if I hit refresh the whole screen turns white and my fonts change to Times new Roman and I have nothing but links and text everywhere. Now I can't get it back to normal. Any ideas?

[VBDev]

Wow there is no reason why it would act like that !

Can you give me a link to your forum please ?

[VBDev]

Thanks to Zafer BAHADIR for his kind donation

[PGAmerica]

I created two additional channels and assigned the commands "/team" and "/pm" to them. However, when I use those commands in the chatroom (eg. /team Hello), nothing shows up. In the archives however, my chat message is there.

How do this channel thing work? Is there supposed to be a tab so users can switch between channels?

[Tom S]

Originally Posted by PGAmerica

I created two additional channels and assigned the commands "/team" and "/pm" to them. However, when I use those commands in the chatroom (eg. /team Hello), nothing shows up. In the archives however, my chat message is there.

How do this channel thing work? Is there supposed to be a tab so users can switch between channels?

There is suppose to be an image that the channels calls to. Did you download the files for the team and pm channels to your Forums images/misc/mgc_cb_evo/channels.

Then you need to edit your channels team and pm to use the mgc_cb_evo_team_sel.gif and the mgc_cb_evo_pm_sel.gif.

I hope that I have this correct, I am having trouble getting the images to show on my Forum, I just see the text for the channel. I have everything downloaded correctly and have edited out the earlier post above directions. See here > https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1134

Tom S.

[glennybee]

I've been running v0.2.1 for a while with no problems. I've recently upgraded to vBulletin 3.7.0 and now the time for each chat is showing the server time instead of the actual timezone time, if you know what I mean. The server is in the USA and I'm in the UK.

I've upgraded the shoutbox to the latest version but it's still showing the wrong time.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

[PGAmerica]

Originally Posted by Tom S

There is suppose to be an image that the channels calls to. Did you download the files for the team and pm channels to your Forums images/misc/mgc_cb_evo/channels.

Then you need to edit your channels team and pm to use the mgc_cb_evo_team_sel.gif and the mgc_cb_evo_pm_sel.gif.

I uploaded the team and pm images. it would not let me make the channel unless I put the image names in there. The instructions said to put them the "{style folder}misc/mgc_cb_evo/channels" folder. However, I also uploaded them into the main "images/misc/mgc_cb_evo/channels" folder. It did not help.

I do not see the additional channels at all. No images, no text, nothing.