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

[Gn_Snake]

Originally Posted by Gn_Snake
Hello,
I have the same problem I had with the previous version for vb3.x then resolved with a patch.
Chat if I write a word with the accent, the chat does not write the message, but remains on standby

What can be?
What was that patch ?

You had released a patch for this specific problem, but after an upgrade of the plugin was fixed.

Maybe some bug is resolved by placing too

However you have some ideas on how to solve this problem?
Thank you very much

[gpc10347]

Originally Posted by Jeweetog

@gpc10347, read the 'reported bugs' in the mod post. There is a fix for it.

Thanks for the assist but I must have lost my eyesight or something (I am old you know).

I can't seem to find a reference to the log out problem at all. I did fail to mention vb 4.0.4 and mod version 3.0 but still, I can't seem to locate a reference to logging out, or "var chatid = jchats[i].getElementsByTagName('chatid')[0].firstChild.nodeValue;" noted up there with the other reported bugs and such.

Can you perhaps straighten out my eyesight, teach me to read, or maybe paste in the fix please?

Thanks

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by gpc10347

Anyone else experiencing an issue when logging off that results in the following error?

Message: Object required
Line: 664
Char: 5
Code: 0

which points to
var chatid = jchats[i].getElementsByTagName('chatid')[0].firstChild.nodeValue;

I have a custom template or two but even if switched to the defaults, the log off hangs with the chat window attempting to display (I have the site set to not allow unregistered to see the chat so maybe that's responsible?)

If you look into the archives, what are the latest chat ? Do you have bot or special commands chats ?

Originally Posted by gpc10347

I also noticed that my private chat tab was missing it's cross icon.

label: tabusername + ' <span class="close"><img src="mgc_cb_evo/clientscript/cross.png" border="0" /></span>', fixed that one.

I think the path was reversed initially?

Path changed indeed. This has been fixed in the under development version.

Originally Posted by Gn_Snake

You had released a patch for this specific problem, but after an upgrade of the plugin was fixed.

Maybe some bug is resolved by placing too

However you have some ideas on how to solve this problem?
Thank you very much

I don't remember of the patch if you can point me to it I could tell you wether this is supported in this version or not.

[gpc10347]

Originally Posted by gpc10347

Anyone else experiencing an issue when logging off that results in the following error?

Message: Object required
Line: 664
Char: 5
Code: 0

which points to
var chatid = jchats[i].getElementsByTagName('chatid')[0].firstChild.nodeValue;

Originally Posted by VBDev

If you look into the archives, what are the latest chat ? Do you have bot or special commands chats ?

I looked into the archives and made several revisions trying to pin it down to explain it better but I did find a workable solution -
If I adjust the usergroup "Unregistered / Not Logged In" to "Yes" for the "Can view the chatbox" option, logoff works perfectly! I'd prefer to hide the chat from that group but for now, this is functionally alright.

Is that useful information for you?

Originally Posted by gpc10347

Path changed indeed. This has been fixed in the under development version.

Thanks (as always)
Hope all if well for you and yours

(Oh.. one last item: Are you certain you want to mention vBCms integration (as seen https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=170156) as a valid integration solution? I tried and tried to make it work until I realized the hack is for an older version and uses depreciated or non-existant code (won't work on 4.0.4) )


*** UPDATE ***
Finally frustrated with vbCMS, I disabled it and installed VbAdvanced and reset the permissions for the Unregistered group to not allowing viewing of the chats.. and, as you might expect, it now works famously and, as a bonus - the integration into VbAdvanced is awesome...

Not sure if others would benefit by further exploration of the issues I was having with vbCMS but I'm pretty much convinced - I'm back to vbAdvanced.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by gpc10347

I looked into the archives and made several revisions trying to pin it down to explain it better but I did find a workable solution -
If I adjust the usergroup "Unregistered / Not Logged In" to "Yes" for the "Can view the chatbox" option, logoff works perfectly! I'd prefer to hide the chat from that group but for now, this is functionally alright.

Is that useful information for you?

Oh ! I misread then the issue is for unregistered user or not logged in users when chatbox is set to can't view right ?
That helps trying to figure it out.

Originally Posted by gpc10347

(Oh.. one last item: Are you certain you want to mention vBCms integration (as seen https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=170156) as a valid integration solution? I tried and tried to make it work until I realized the hack is for an older version and uses depreciated or non-existant code (won't work on 4.0.4) )

Well I thought it had been maintained but if it's not the case then yeah I should remove it.

[gpc10347]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Oh ! I misread then the issue is for unregistered user or not logged in users when chatbox is set to can't view right ?
That helps trying to figure it out.



Well I thought it had been maintained but if it's not the case then yeah I should remove it.

Seems to only happen if I used the suites' CMS, logged in as a user with 'can view the chats ' permission and the chat was set to 'can't view' for the newly logged off and therefore unregistered user I became once I logged out.. (whew. glad I ain't you

That's rather confusing to type. Hopefully, you can decode what I mean but as mentioned, I sidestepped the issue by moving to vbAdvanced
Thanks again

[Scitz0]

Just installed this chat on my vb 4.0.4 forum and it seems to work nicely so far.
I found two bugs though that I couldnt find in the list of repported bugs in the short time playing with it.

1) When clicking on the questionmark the popupwindow with the help comes up. But at the top in this window I get 8 of these

Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in [path]/mgc_cb_evo.php on line 911

2) I have choosen to place the chatbox in "forumdisplay" and I wanted it to only be available in a specific forum so I added the id to the "Ids of the forums in which the chatbox shall be displayed" setting. But if I do this I cant see the chatbox even though the forum id is correct. So I cleared this setting and now I can see the chatbox on all forums. So this setting doesnt seem to work.
Any workaround for this until its fixed?

[T34]

Thanks for the excellent product!

I've make a Russian localization for MGC Chatbox Evo 3.0.0.

Hadn't a lot of time to test it perfectly. But the main features work well. Some features are added ? russian chat Help is advanced, for example.

The my first profession is russian linguistic, so the Russian language in this localization is literary. There is no slang and, I hope, there are no grammar mistakes and orthographic faults.

Also I've see that there is a bug in "mgc_cb_evo_functions.js" script in original installation package. Problems are solved, use the file from "Upload.zip" archive. You can see the bags if you compare the original and archived files.

You can see the result here: http://www.rasstanovka.su

Files are attached.

Good Luck!

[T34]

I need to change the background color of the tabs in chat window.

The default color of 1 element looks wrong in me design. This tab is in image:

May be anybody knows in what file of this product and how can I change the bgcolor of tab?

[T34]

Time and date in vB works fine. Local settings (ru_RU, UTF-8 etc.) is right.

But when I use the functions {time} or {date} in bot's phrases, chatbox returns the follows, for example:

%04:%Jul

May be, is it possible to solve it?