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

[Queball_Beast]

I am having this same problem.

Using both IE and firefox I can see it in firefox but I cannot see chat messages in IE.

When the script was first updated I was unable to see chats in both IE and firefox, after refreshing a few time I can now see it in firefox but cannot see it in IE.


Also is there a way to stop the chat from displaying Horizontal .[ Example below ] ?
The Align usernames and chats set to NO/Yes makes no difference as it still aligned horizontally in the chatbox.

[umusic2000]

I keep getting the nonstop loading and refresh button. I want to make sure I installed the correct version. Which is the link if you're using vb 3.6.8?

Which version did I install? Honsetly I don't remember. Installed a few versions.
I'm thinking I should remove everything and start fresh with the correct version.

[EvilJohn]

Originally Posted by AWJunkies

http://www.prototypejs.org/
Prototype not mine it is just like jquery. The two play nice with each other and have been for years. Since vB uses YUI most scrips SHOULD be made with it and not try to do jquery or prototype. You end up loading js scripts multiple times sometimes 4 times or more and becomes counter productive. Again looking into issue now will let you know what I come up with. Have to load this software on test site to really test.

Thank you Adam for this, and your awesome donation system. I was wondering why I was having problems with the latest version of the chattbox. I won't try and cut off the head of the messenger. LOL Peace!

[Keyser Soze]

I know how you can fix the MSIE problem of not displaying the shouts:
Simply open the Style Manager in your AdminCP, click on "edit templates" and revert all templates belonging to the MGC Chatbox.
It seems like the uninstall routine of the MGC Chatbox does not work as expected and is incomplete. It doesn't remove all old templates if you click on "uninstall".

But I found another more serious bug. If you enable the "ban" command in the latest version and enter the command "/ban show", the only thing you can see in the popup is a mysql error message:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT username,userid,usergroupid,displaygroupid
FROM user
WHERE mgc_cb_evo_banned='1'
ORDER BY username ASC;

MySQL-Fehler : Unknown column 'mgc_cb_evo_banned' in 'where clause'
Fehler-Nr. : 1054

Why does the plugin expect a column called "mgc_cb_evo_banned" in the user-table if it didn't create it in installation process? So it seems that not only the uninstallation routine is buggy but also the installation.

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by Kaycee123

I have recently upgraded to the new version. Now there are at least 4 members who can't see any of the chats. They see the box, the BB code icons, and who's online, but no actual chats!!

I tried signing in as two of them, and I can see the chats just fine signed in as them. Here is a screenshot of what they are seeing:



Any suggestions? Also - one other weird thing, the chatbox was working fine for one of them this morning, and nothing was changed in the meantime.

EDIT: Two of them have just told me they can see it with IE but not with Firefox, but I use Firefox and I can see it fine.

Yeah, empty the cache, sounding like a user issue.

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by umusic2000

I keep getting the nonstop loading and refresh button. I want to make sure I installed the correct version. Which is the link if you're using vb 3.6.8?

Which version did I install? Honsetly I don't remember. Installed a few versions.
I'm thinking I should remove everything and start fresh with the correct version.

1. Read the readme. Says right in first area. That var security token.
2. Which version did you install? You installed it, not anyone else. Goto the plugin manager and find out dippy.

[Queball_Beast]

Completely uninstalled and reinstalled and still not working for IE. it works for Firefox.

Also still unable to get chat to align 1 chat per column , the chat runs the user name like the below image .

[pedroenf]

Just to add that remaining bug with the PM pop-up. Still not showing.

[gothicuser]

Want a chuckle??
I downloaded this and set out to test it locally on one of my dev machines as is the norm.
I uninstalled the old copy, copied the new files across and imported the product and hey.... not working.
Well, to cut a long story short I spent virtually all yesterday spitting blood, and cursing the ground every Mother and their Son walked on
It wasn't until My Daughter returned from shopping, towards the evening that she reminded me that I had changed the HTDocs folder to another partition (without deleting the original one)

What a bloody eejit I felt... could've crawled into the woodwork

[Deimos]

I to experience the same "Loading.." problem, so have reverted back to 0.5.0, which was the version for me, which seemed a lot better.