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

[Bundle]

Just thought I'd mention here - don't know if it has been before and I'm not reading through 100+ pages! - be careful when uninstalling this. I uninstalled it via the products section of admin CP (vb 4.0.3) and my forum started throwing a few database errors at me. Thankfully not in the user areas, just in admin CP. Mostly relating to trying to edit / make new usergroups... it seems to think that the MGC permissions should still be there, and gets confused when it can't find them. Had to import the product again to solve it and just leave it turned off... as yet haven't found a way to fully remove it without database errors.

[Jeweetog]

Originally Posted by Bundle

Just thought I'd mention here - don't know if it has been before and I'm not reading through 100+ pages! - be careful when uninstalling this. I uninstalled it via the products section of admin CP (vb 4.0.3) and my forum started throwing a few database errors at me. Thankfully not in the user areas, just in admin CP. Mostly relating to trying to edit / make new usergroups... it seems to think that the MGC permissions should still be there, and gets confused when it can't find them. Had to import the product again to solve it and just leave it turned off... as yet haven't found a way to fully remove it without database errors.

Hi,

There is a readme file that came with this product. It explains how to install it, but also how to uninstall it. Follow the instructions and you should be fine.

[ti07shadow]

for some reason many of my users claim to not be able to see the chats, some can see some of the chats but not all of them, and some can see all of the posts, I can see all the posst on my PC but when I sign into my laptop I can only see one of the many posts in the chatbox...

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by TeknoSounds

had a user report an issue on IE8 where he doesn't see the dropdown menu icon to the left of the username. Could this be related to the fix posted?

Well not sure because that fixes the issue with chatbox not refreshing when /me or /slap chats are present in the chatbox.

Originally Posted by ti07shadow

for some reason many of my users claim to not be able to see the chats, some can see some of the chats but not all of them, and some can see all of the posts, I can see all the posst on my PC but when I sign into my laptop I can only see one of the many posts in the chatbox...

Which browser are you using ? Do you have /me or /slap chats ?

[ti07shadow]

Ive tried pretty much any browser. Fire Fox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Safari.

I works perfectly my PC and my fathers on all these browsers but the chatbox doesnt work on the laptop, and a few people registered on my site.

yes /slap and /me are on and they work to..

LIKE I SAID. the whole thing works perfectly for me on my PC and my fathers. just no on the laptop or a few others on my forums.. the shouts just dont load it says loading the entire time and the little loading symbbol is just refreshing away. some people can see some of the chats just not all of them

for example, 1 user can see all of certain users posts but not mine nor anyone elses just can only see that one others posts.

[ProFifaLeagues]

How do you unban a user after banning them from chat system?

[Swordman844555]

users get the following error message in the archive

Warnung: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in [path]/mgc_cb_evo.php (Zeile 358)

Line 358 there stands the following

if (in_array($ugpid,$channel['usergroupids']))

[ti07shadow]

lets see

+. Multiple Users unable to see all chats
+. Users get the following error

Warnung: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in [path]/mgc_cb_evo.php (Zeile 358)

On Line 358

if (in_array($ugpid,$channel['usergroupids']))

[will555559]

Originally Posted by rammieone

How do you unban a user after banning them from chat system?

If you ban someone using the /ban syntax without setting a day amount, I believe its just a cron job so it will unban them automatically after a certain time. If you ban them for a certain amount of days, just use /ban show

[ProFifaLeagues]

Originally Posted by will555559

If you ban someone using the /ban syntax without setting a day amount, I believe its just a cron job so it will unban them automatically after a certain time. If you ban them for a certain amount of days, just use /ban show

Thanks mate!