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

[Hornstar]

Hopefully it will be fixed soon my members have been wanting this for so long, and I can't keep installing it and just having to disable it minutes later after each bug.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by LCN2007

Yes sir i had it all set up are you using quicken plugin in FF to make the sound sand that plugin isnt supported any more due to some securities i think.

But i am using :

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6
VBulletin 3.7.2

It did work in IE kinda every time you changed channels it was like boing boing boing even if no new chats had been posted.

Another issue is i cant get the smiles button to show

Well that's strange, did you refresh your cache after install ?

This working properly on my forum.

Anyone else in the same situation ?

Originally Posted by eh69

VBDev whats going on with my problems? Maybe reason are polish letters? Im using Latin2 encode.

Installed 2.2.1 version of chatbox.

Well that could perhaps be a problem of encoding in the language. Have you imported the english language on your polish one ?

Originally Posted by deta

Please fix the bug with ibproarcade!!!!

cu Deta

Hey man calm down !!!
I am not a little dog that obey orders.

Originally Posted by Mihalis

I was wondering if chats show properly in Safari after the update. Is that fixed with 2.2.1? Thank you.

Yes they do, with previous version too (am a Mac user so I have tested on Safari)

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by MDK-Indy

If i move more than one Thread from a sub-forum to another sub-forum i have a Database error.

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.0 Beta 2:

Invalid SQL:

            INSERT INTO vbmgc_cb_evo_chat
                (dateline,fromuid,ctext,sticky,chanid,coidentifier,iswarning,warningtype,tpforumid)
            VALUES
                (1234098648,,'7293,Spionagenetzt',0,0,0,1,'thread',26);

MySQL Error   : Fehler in der SQL-Syntax. Bitte die korrekte Syntax im Handbuch nachschlagen bei ''7293,Spionagenetzt',0,0,0,1,'thread',26)' in Zeile 4
Error Number  : 1064
Request Date  : Sunday, February 8th 2009 @ 02:10:48 PM
Error Date    : Sunday, February 8th 2009 @ 02:10:48 PM
Script        : http://forum......de/inlinemod.php?do=domovethreads&threadids=4731,7252,4730
Referrer      : http://forum.......de/inlinemod.php?forumid=26
IP Address    : 217.84.243.65
Username      : Indy
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.32-Debian_7etch8-log

Was this with the very latest files from here ?

Coz there had been problems with the earlier version 2.2.0.

Originally Posted by exyuteam

OK. I will explain with PrnScr Just to say again, option Align usernames and chats are ON, and it's NOT WORKING on Firefox 3.0.6. (chat ver. 2.2.1), and WORKING OK in Chrome, IE 6, IE 7, Safari, and Firefox 2.0.0.20 (not try with other versions).... PrnScr from Chrome, Firefox 2.0.0.20 and Firefox 3.0.6 are attahed.....

Thanks m8

Wow my damn very odd, I am marking this in the bug list to be checked.

Originally Posted by entertain

Hey, is this correct to fix it like this?

/admincp/mgc_cb_evo.php

PHP Code:

$vbulletin->db->query_first("SELECT MIN(dateline) AS start FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "mgc_cb_evo_chat WHERE isthreadwarning='0' AND ispostwarning='0'"); 


Replace by

PHP Code:

$vbulletin->db->query_first("SELECT MIN(dateline) AS start FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "mgc_cb_evo_chat WHERE iswarning='0'"); 


Or is there more that have to be changed?

Yes that is

Originally Posted by ibeteck

I would like to know if there is a way to make the chatbox faster I already changed the refresh intervals but didn't seem to make a difference. Also I want to clear out my archives I don't know if that might help out to make it faster. How can I clear my archive for the chat?

Well what is not fast for you ? Retrieving of chats data do takes time as it loads all data from ajax but that will be the case with any chatbox.

I might be implementing a kinda cache system in a release of the chatbox later this year to speed things up.

Originally Posted by Gamempire

well, i study the error that firebug gives me:

uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004003 (NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER) [nsIDOMHTMLTableSectionElement.appendChild]" nsresult: "0x80004003 (NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER)" location: "JS frame :: http://yui.yahooapis.com/combo?2.6.0...ntainer-min.js :: anonymous :: line 50" data: no]

the error: NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER mean that there is something( "nsIDOMHTMLTableSectionElement") that the script can't append (the comand is: nsIDOMHTMLTableSectionElement.appendChild)

this create an infinite loop when the chatbox try to connect with ajax to the mysql database

(i have this problem with firefox and chrome, not with internet explorer)

i tried to empty cache and other things..nothing



can you fix it?


i would be very gratefully


EDIT: i also tried disabling all the other products, and it doesn't work

Hum very strange. It seems like your using yui files for chatbox from Yahoo server.

Had you try with local files ? (you can select that in chatbox options)

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Falon

I have got ready installed this mod. But in my AdminCP when i going to Manage commands, Manage channels, View logs, Import scripts, Counters update i see only white page on my right side of AdminCP.

Mod is working. I can see on forum and using. But without Import scripts, Manage channels is not good for me.
?????

I don't understand ? You mean there is an error when you try to use theimport script ?

Or is it the counter ?

Originally Posted by nath89

when i enable the chatbox nothing comes up on my homepage at all. just a blank screen?

Well that's strange, the chatbox should block the display of the forum.

Any error when the forum behave like that ? (SQL you would have received by email or javascript in firefox console)

Originally Posted by acegames

I had this , so I switched off new post/thread notification until its fixed

Well seems like you're using not the right files are you with 2.2.1 ?

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

Hopefully it will be fixed soon my members have been wanting this for so long, and I can't keep installing it and just having to disable it minutes later after each bug.

Well there are currently no blocking bugs as far as I know ?

[DotSauce]

Found another bug related to the post notifications...

When a post is made automatically via RSS feed the thread ID number is incorrect in the chatbox notification and leads to a not found page. Replies also lead to the incorrect thread ID.

I also think this is messing up other normal thread notification ID's.

Example: http://www.TweetSocial.com

Username: TestBot
Password: testing

[LGKeiz]

There is a problem with displaying "answered threads"

http://gamingsync.com/showthread.php...20more%20later.

in the chat box the %20 do not show, and you get;

Answered in thread : [ARG:4 UNDEFINED]

anyone know how to fix this?

[danielbahl]

Hi VBDev and others,

I love this chatbox. It's just perfect.

After upgradering to the newest 2.2.1 I have some problems:

1. Safari is messing up. The first line in the chat is a old post. The other lines is fine?
Attachment 94455

2. There is a problem with displaying "answered threads" in the chat box:
Answered in thread : [ARG:4 UNDEFINED]

Hope you have a fix! :up:

Again thanks for a great chatbox, I'm considering buying branding free to support you!

[Gamempire]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Was this with the very latest files from here ?

Coz there had been problems with the earlier version 2.2.0.



Wow my damn very odd, I am marking this in the bug list to be checked.



Yes that is



Well what is not fast for you ? Retrieving of chats data do takes time as it loads all data from ajax but that will be the case with any chatbox.

I might be implementing a kinda cache system in a release of the chatbox later this year to speed things up.



Hum very strange. It seems like your using yui files for chatbox from Yahoo server.

Had you try with local files ? (you can select that in chatbox options)

yes, i tried, but i get the same error, with a link to the local file..
it seems that it doesn't manage very well the firefox DOM...

have you got some ideas?

[SnapOff Racing]

Originally Posted by entertain

When I make a shout with the following content, there is no way to edit this shout any more.

[URL=http://www.vbulletin.org/]Test[/URL]

I noticed this issue also.. In the older versions of MGC you were able to click somewhere else on the same line as the link and the edit box would initialize. That doesn't work anymore...

[enteha]

I have an amazing problem with this mod and when I updated to this new version my problem still exists. in my browser (opera 8.51) I have no scroll bar to go up and down and all posts are shown in the frame. look at the image:



thanks.