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

[man1ak]

Hi, i've installed MGC ChatBox Evo on vBulletin 3.7.3 and past some chat messages when i refresh the page my chatbox area says "Loading... " and nothing else.
All users have the same problem in my forum.
Also when i intent to write a message i receive the next error:

"Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error."

Thank you

Ths hack is very very good!!

[pody]

hello VBDEV ( bonjour)

i read the uninstall of the shoutbox but i have all the time this error when i want to change something into the control panel


MySQL Error : Unknown column 'mgc_cb_evo_permissions' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054

thx et merci

[Netunt]

Originally Posted by man1ak

"Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error."

See this thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=268862

It explains how to fix the error. Hope this helps.

[pedroenf]

That has nothing to do with it. You have to remove all the uploaded files. This error is because you still have the bitfield file in /includes/xml folder and consequently still have the mgc_chatbox options field in your groups settings. Remove that file and everything will be fine. If you have one of the lattest versions of VB the bitfield rebuild will be auto, if not you will have to do it your self.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by gxiglon

Nearly because I noticed a little bug : after the installation, I couldn't access to my forum. After many search, I find the source of the trouble : with Firefox (and Opera also I think), people who belong to an additional group can not access to the main page of the forums. Indeed, there is this alert :



I permit to translate my post in French, because my English is so bad and because I know that VBDev is French

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Apr?s installation, je me suis rendu compte que sous Firefox (et sous Op?ra aussi je crois, si mes souvenirs sont bons), un membre appartenant un un ou plusieurs groupes d'utilisateurs additionnels ne pouvait pas voir le hack, le message d'erreur suivant apparaissant :



Ce soucis est assez g?nant tout de m?me.

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I have never experienced such problem.
Does your server has a specific/strange configuration ?
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Je n'ai jamais eu ce probl?me.
Est-ce que ton serveur a une configuration sp?cifique/bizarre ?

Originally Posted by gxiglon

[EDIT] I have found a second bug : the unselection of checkbox to not display the choice of the font, the color and the size and the buttons for put the text on bold, italic and underline is ineffetive.

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J'ai trouv? un second bug : la non-selection des checkbo pour ne pas afficher les listes d?roulantes permettant le choix de la police, de la couleur ou de la taille et pour ne pas afficher les boutons pour pouvoir mettre le texte en gras, en italique ou en soulign? ne fonctionne pas.

I am not sure that you did use the good checkboxes. There is one group to avoid users to select them as default parameters in their usercp and the other to just allow the bbcodes. I think you misunderstood the text and did the contrary.
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Je ne suis pas sur que tu ais s?lectionn? les bonnes checkbox. Dans l'admincp, il y a la possibilit? de choisir les param?tres que les utilisateurs peuvent s?lectionner par d?faut dans leur usercp et ?galement la possibilit? de choisir quels bbcode sont utilisables par les utilisateurs. Je pense que tu as mal compris le texte et fait l'inverse

Originally Posted by shot2bits

Re-uploaded the files but has made no difference, still page not found.

Can you send me by pm :

• URL of your forum
• Admin account on your forum
• FTP accesses

So that I can try to check that out more deeply ?

Originally Posted by man1ak

Hi, i've installed MGC ChatBox Evo on vBulletin 3.7.3 and past some chat messages when i refresh the page my chatbox area says "Loading... " and nothing else.
All users have the same problem in my forum.
Also when i intent to write a message i receive the next error:

"Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error."

Are you using the latest version of the chatbox ? Earlier version of the chatbox aren't compatible with the 3.7 due to token late introduction in the vBulletin code.

Otherwise you shouldn't get that error message as it's now corrected since 0.3.0 I think.

Originally Posted by pody

hello VBDEV ( bonjour)

i read the uninstall of the shoutbox but i have all the time this error when i want to change something into the control panel


MySQL Error : Unknown column 'mgc_cb_evo_permissions' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054

thx et merci

See pedroenf answer above

[pedroenf]

Hi VBDev, as i "get" you here i would like to ask you again to please please please solve that pop-up issue in the next version. Could you? Please. With that issue solved the chat would be perfect. Thanks.

[Markos]

is there any chance that i can change the border of this mod ??

[gxiglon]

Originally Posted by VBDev

I have never experienced such problem.
Does your server has a specific/strange configuration ?
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Je n'ai jamais eu ce probl?me.
Est-ce que ton serveur a une configuration sp?cifique/bizarre ?

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I am not sure that you did use the good checkboxes. There is one group to avoid users to select them as default parameters in their usercp and the other to just allow the bbcodes. I think you misunderstood the text and did the contrary.
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Je ne suis pas sur que tu ais s?lectionn? les bonnes checkbox. Dans l'admincp, il y a la possibilit? de choisir les param?tres que les utilisateurs peuvent s?lectionner par d?faut dans leur usercp et ?galement la possibilit? de choisir quels bbcode sont utilisables par les utilisateurs. Je pense que tu as mal compris le texte et fait l'inverse

I will test my forum on an other server to see.
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Je vais essayer sur un autre serveur pour v?rifier.

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Not because I have checked some checkbox and unchecked others, but all options appears on the chatbox.
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Non parce que j'ai s?lection? certaines checkbox et d?selectionn? les autres et toutes les options apparaissent sur la chatbox.



Thanks for your support
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Merci pour ton support

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by pedroenf

Hi VBDev, as i "get" you here i would like to ask you again to please please please solve that pop-up issue in the next version. Could you? Please. With that issue solved the chat would be perfect. Thanks.

Problem is I don't have internet explorer => I am a Mac user.

But I think I have found what might have been causing the problem. Do you have the show whos online in the chatbox option active on your forum ?

Originally Posted by Markos

is there any chance that i can change the border of this mod ??

By editing templates as it's using your default forum bordering configuraiton.

[VBDev]

1.1.0 Development status update :

As you can see from the first post, many new features will be included in the next version.

I think I'll stop there for the new features introduction and will start translating the new/changed phrases into english in order to launch the beta test phasis.
Unless you guys have some bloody hell ideas of new features that are not in the todo list

I'll ask, when it will be time to, for beta testers so that you can track the snitchy bugs that could be remaining.

One of the bug I would like to be tested is the PM popup problem. I think it's fixed but I need some users who were having the problem to test it (as I can't myself due to no internet explorer on Mac).