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

[desi-plaza]

i get this when i try to add this mod

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/functions_mgc_cb_evo.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/global.php(384) : eval()'d code on line 1

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home2/desiplaz/public_html/forums/includes/functions_mgc_cb_evo.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home2/desiplaz/public_html/forums/global.php(384) : eval()'d code on line 1

[desi-plaza]

i got it..good chat box

[Skyrider]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Hum, perhaps you should consider reading the vBulletin documentation

Importing a mod is one of vBulletin basis so you should really start with it before doing anything with your board.

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/

Missed my reply? ^_^ (read last page)

[aberg]

Well, it seems to be a good mod, but after install the languages in the admin is France.
I have inport the Englisch languages but the admin still France.
Also error in DB after give permission to users.
I have unstall this mod and back to Flashchat.
To many problems I read in this mod and to many points most be done

[Skyrider]

Originally Posted by aberg

Well, it seems to be a good mod, but after install the languages in the admin is France.
I have inport the Englisch languages but the admin still France.
Also error in DB after give permission to users.
I have unstall this mod and back to Flashchat.
To many problems I read in this mod and to many points most be done

Take some time in it.. Are you sure it is french? Have you "set the default language" on the forums set to English? Also, make sure you check the general options for the "chat display" what you always see as text when you want to enter something within the chat box.. It is normally French, but you have to set your own text in English.

I have another bug report though as well. When you use the /me command in another channel (outside the main channel), the text of the /me command shows up in the main channel rather than the channel you used the /me command in. Maybe you should look in to it. And please also check out my other 2 bug reports that I replied in my second previous post at the previous page. (110).

[War_force]

3.7.1 installed and good works

thanks a lot

but I need a cannale script for usergroups

[BozzaJos]

Hey VBDev,

I've got a slight problem with the shoutbox. I've updated my shoutbox (0.3.0) to 0.4.0 but now my Team Channel is gone. Normally, it showed two icons at the left (General and Team) but now there isn't a single icon. Do you perhaps know how to fix this? I need my Team Channel back lol. I upgraded all the commands (except Announcement and Team since they haven't been upgraded) and even deleted and re-added the Team Channel but it didn't help.

Can you please help me with this problem? We are using the Team Channel a lot since my site is pretty big and we talk a lot about bad posts on the forums and bad behavior in the shoutbox.

Thanks in advance mate. Appreciate it...

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by gpc10347

I'm really diggin' the chat usage from my users however, besides the ability to force a sound on the other end - a more useful oddity unrelated to the actual function of a chat would be a smilie chooser for those of us idiots that have in excess of 500 smilies...

Could the Showsmiles function potentially display categorically like the smilies manager... (Number per page per selected group) or something?


Sorry :erm:

I already doesn't have much time to work on the chatbox and thus will not take time on such features, I am sorry about that.

Originally Posted by FF|Skyrider

Take some time in it.. Are you sure it is french? Have you "set the default language" on the forums set to English? Also, make sure you check the general options for the "chat display" what you always see as text when you want to enter something within the chat box.. It is normally French, but you have to set your own text in English.

I have another bug report though as well. When you use the /me command in another channel (outside the main channel), the text of the /me command shows up in the main channel rather than the channel you used the /me command in. Maybe you should look in to it. And please also check out my other 2 bug reports that I replied in my second previous post at the previous page. (110).

I have never said it should work that way . The commands in the chatbox are for the general channel.

This is perhaps not very good but the way I coded the chatbox, a channel corresponds to a command and thus only one command is usable in the channel.

I should certainly rewrite the chatbox code so that channels and commands are not related to each others. This would allow the commands to be used in every channels. But currently I don't have a lot of time to do that. I will see in the coming month. About your other bug reports, they are perhaps certainly listed in the bug list here ? Or I perhaps have already answered you. If not then I am sorry but I don't have the same number of posts displayed by page and I won't get through all the posts to find yours, the problem of this forum is that having only one thread for the support lacks of visibility :/

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by FF|Skyrider

Hey VBDev, just wanted to report a few bugs / problems:

1), Swear filter can be bypassed with the /me command. If you for example have "awesome" within in the filter to change it to *****, so:



Would change to



Within the chat. But if you combine it with /me is awesome, it shows "Skyrider is awesome" <-- its not filtering it.

2), It seems that the /show ban command is only working on fully admins, supers and moderators. If I select that other usergroups can ban, it works fine. But it seems they do not have access to the /show ban command at all. If that usergroup attempts to do so, they are getting that:



and



You might say "The usergroup does not have ban rights", which I'm afraid is not the case.. When I use the /ban on uname Skyrider command from that usergroup (not admin,super or mod) it says "The user was successfully banned"

Ok I'll look into the 1st bug.

I don't understand what you mean for the 2nd bug.

[jim6763nva]

Ok, in my moment of being very tired lastnight, I think I may have posted an issue I was having with this in the wrong forum. lol

I've installed this addon on two other sites with no problems till yesterday on the third site I run into where the "Loading..." won't go away. I've also added that temporary "fix" in the javascript, but that doesn't show any kind of error either to point me in the right direction. I was wondering where I go from here with this?

Thanks in advance!