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

[RedDevil]

Originally Posted by Doctor Death

Right, I have set the default channel, but within usergroups I have specified a different channel as the default for certain usergroups. It worked well two updates prior to this, but now it seems that even though the option is still in there for usergroups, it ignores the start channel and goes to the system default.

Hope I was clear enough

I get what you mean now, not tried that will have a look as i have 3 channels set up.

[RedDevil]

Originally Posted by Doctor Death

Right, I have set the default channel, but within usergroups I have specified a different channel as the default for certain usergroups. It worked well two updates prior to this, but now it seems that even though the option is still in there for usergroups, it ignores the start channel and goes to the system default.

Hope I was clear enough

I tested this and if you allow members to select their own default channel in user cp it overides the forced channel in usergroup settings.


In usergroup setting

MGC Chatbox Evo : Custom Parameters set default channel

MGC Chatbox Evo : Custom permissions Can choose its default displayed channel Y/N this should be no or it overides the above.

hope this solves your problem, if not bug Dev

[Doctor Death]

Originally Posted by Red-Devil

I tested this and if you allow members to select their own default channel in user cp it overides the forced channel in usergroup settings.


In usergroup setting

MGC Chatbox Evo : Custom Parameters set default channel

MGC Chatbox Evo : Custom permissions Can choose its default displayed channel Y/N this should be no or it overides the above.

hope this solves your problem, if not bug Dev

Thanks so much, you are exactly right!!!! I appreciate the response and it is working perfectly now!

[Playa82]

Originally Posted by Playa82

I get this 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.

any help ?

nobody ??? the newest version doesn't work...

[RedDevil]

Originally Posted by Doctor Death

Thanks so much, you are exactly right!!!! I appreciate the response and it is working perfectly now!

your welcome, im learning myself so i like to help when i can

[pedroenf]

Originally Posted by Red-Devil

I have anothe rproblem since updating it wont display in the Arcade, ive checked and all set as per instructions and was working fine before upgrade to latest version.


Any idea of the cure.

Yes you are right. Happens tome too.

[PHSChat]

Originally Posted by PHSChat
Three of my formatting icons are missing; I checked the image files and they are all there and up to date for all my styles. Only underline, italics, and bold are missing, and those are some of the three newest files in the misc/mgc_cb_evo/ directory. What can I do to get them back? Otherwise, the upgrade worked fine. Thanks, great mod.

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Well in this new version there are now 2 buttons for b u and i corresponding to on state and off state.

So you have to have :
mgc_cb_evo_b_on.gif
mgc_cb_evo_b_off.gif
mgc_cb_evo_i_on.gif
mgc_cb_evo_i_off.gif
mgc_cb_evo_u_on.gif
mgc_cb_evo_u_off.gif

The one of the default set are included in the zip file.

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I think you misunderstood. I need to make the link to the existing b u and i icon files work. The on/off icon files are in the proper directory but the chat application is not linking to them for some reason. Everything else in the application works OK. It's only the b u and i icon files that are not being read by chat application. All I get is the missing icon picture; you now, the white box with the little red "X" inside.

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[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Playa82

I get this 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.

any help ?

Check that you do have uploaded files correctly.

Originally Posted by Markos

I'm getting the same problem its not just the whose online its not showing up

?! hu ?!

Originally Posted by Red-Devil

I have anothe rproblem since updating it wont display in the Arcade, ive checked and all set as per instructions and was working fine before upgrade to latest version.

Any idea of the cure.

For the arcades, I think I posted a post some time ago saying that two vars had to be added at the top of the function that build up the arcade.

Make a small search

Originally Posted by l_amhed

Hi VBDev !

Done but it doesn't fix the problem for me.

Nope it is present, but I made some tests and find that in the mgc_cb_evo_chatbit_col_menu template if I remove in the conditional :
&& empty($vbcollapse[collapseobj_mgc_cb_evo])

It works and maybe it is related to the collapse/display problem

For the first issue, it must have fixed it, refresh your browser cache perhaps javascripts files are currently cached and you are running old version due to that.

Do you have a specific configuration for the chatbox ? Like collapsed by default or something like that ?

Originally Posted by PHSChat

Originally Posted by PHSChat
Three of my formatting icons are missing; I checked the image files and they are all there and up to date for all my styles. Only underline, italics, and bold are missing, and those are some of the three newest files in the misc/mgc_cb_evo/ directory. What can I do to get them back? Otherwise, the upgrade worked fine. Thanks, great mod.

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Well in this new version there are now 2 buttons for b u and i corresponding to on state and off state.

So you have to have :
mgc_cb_evo_b_on.gif
mgc_cb_evo_b_off.gif
mgc_cb_evo_i_on.gif
mgc_cb_evo_i_off.gif
mgc_cb_evo_u_on.gif
mgc_cb_evo_u_off.gif

The one of the default set are included in the zip file.

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I think you misunderstood. I need to make the link to the existing b u and i icon files work. The on/off icon files are in the proper directory but the chat application is not linking to them for some reason. Everything else in the application works OK. It's only the b u and i icon files that are not being read by chat application. All I get is the missing icon picture; you now, the white box with the little red "X" inside.


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And where do that little red cross point to ? (Url)

Edit : Hum, would it be that you have an editor template non reverted ?

[Taragon]

finally upgraded from 1.5 to 2.3.1. branding free (after having it bought a couple of months ago) ...

• It's currently impossible to unsticky a post
• When notifications and latest thread display are disabled it's still showing the table/box

Also, would it be possible to clean up the templates a bit, cleaning up all blank characters, overdose of nested tables, and use some proper alignment?

[Markos]

Originally Posted by VBDev

?! hu ?!

it doesn't show in UserCP