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

[tlwwolfseye]

True but then, better safe than sorry. And I would recommend using reCaptcha instead of Captcha, since Captcha is not that safe really. At least it would be nice to have that option. Wether it would be annoying for users on a website or not should be up to the Administrator.
All i ask is the Option to have it, choosing it or not is up to anyone himself.

Thanks in advance.
Wolfseye

[VBDev]

Sure you are right

However I can't promise that I will be adding in the next one as there are already a lots of features I want to add but will see !

[tlwwolfseye]

Thanks anyways for considering it. And thanks for this great Mod. As soon as I can afford something I will donate something.

[ShiZoPhreN]

Doesn Work @ Nginx (webserver)

[ViViD]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Every 5 chats seems huge to me and very annoying for users in my mind, no ?

About the second idea, you meant a new notification for thread edits ?

Ok , You are right , I wrote 5 for just an example & It can be customizable . Or even it can be TIME based.

About the second idea I meant an active "STATISTICS" as robot in the chat.

For example a user is the subscriber to a thread and someone replies to that thread in the forum , Then a message appears in the chat that says

"The thread "Title" you subscribed for it , now is replied by "user" . Click here to read it .

As a same message of other users .

It can be expanded by new Social Group Messages , and New blog updates , New Announcements , New PMs etc...

This idea appeared for me because some users forget the forums when they chat and use the forums only for chatting. And this work chains the chat area to the main reason of the site "Forums"
I know this may be hard feature but I said it BTW.


All the best

[kronnos]

I like the last idea

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by ViViD

Ok , You are right , I wrote 5 for just an example & It can be customizable . Or even it can be TIME based.

About the second idea I meant an active "STATISTICS" as robot in the chat.

For example a user is the subscriber to a thread and someone replies to that thread in the forum , Then a message appears in the chat that says

As a same message of other users .

It can be expanded by new Social Group Messages , and New blog updates , New Announcements , New PMs etc...

This idea appeared for me because some users forget the forums when they chat and use the forums only for chatting. And this work chains the chat area to the main reason of the site "Forums"
I know this may be hard feature but I said it BTW.

All the best

Well managing subscriptions in notification is quite too intensive (need further sql queries)

But yes I have planned to work further on notifications, which by the way will be possible to detach from the chatbox as seen on my forum www.forumcoding.com.

These notifcations will however only be able to branding free owners (at least most of them).

[ik7jwy]

I have this problem: time to time, the chatbox do not update the messages and when a user try to force the update he get disconnected. This happens even before the "user on line" time expire. Any suggestion ?
Another question: it is possible to change the sound of the new message notification ? If the audio level is high, the doing is really terrific :-)

[woffie]

Awesome Mod!

[okano12]

Hello,

I have the same problem with hanging up of the chat with "loading....".

First I searched in this thread for a solution to solve this. But all I found wasn't working well for my prob.

What is a little bit strange is, that during the iniciation of the chat I have an javascript error, that a refresh of the chat isn't possible:

chatbox_refresh is not defined
[Break on this error] chatbox_refresh('forced');

He trys always to load this function from the old mgc_cb_evo.js from my previous version 1.0. But in the new version 2.3.2 this javascript file doesn't exist!?
I tried everything. Updating, then uninstallation and new installation. Then also to reinstall the old version and uninstal it otherwise, to clean the tables from the old version, and then I reinstaled the new version, but nothing. The error is the same.

As new version, I installed 2.3.2.

Do you have a solution for my problem?

Thanks in advance.

P.S.: During the Update, Change to the new version I also have deleted the old files of version 1.0. Even the mgc_cb_evo_js!


I solved it by myself!! It was an error of an missing security token in my Forumdisplay! After testing other functions of my forum, I had to solve this problem. After that I tested another Instal of the MGC Chatbox, and it works fine now!!

For the security token problem you will find solutions here:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=296967
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=177013