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

[KpDaCancunLegen]

Good Afternoon,

I was hoping someone could help me. I currently have this chatbox running on my test forum with no issues. I might add, I am running vb4.14. However when i try and install a fresh copy on my main board which is also 4.14, I get this error. My test board had it prior to upgrade to 4.14 and my main board did not have it.

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, cgiadmin@yourhostingaccount.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Thanks for the help

Respectfully,

KP

[IATV]

Can somebody tell me, how can I get the scandinavian (finnish) letters/characters to work? The chatbox does not show them and stops working completely after you try to chat using them.

[Reycer]

Originally Posted by IATV

Can you tell me why the sound notification for new messages is not working?

How can I fix this?

It's listed in the description, all you gotta do is read:

Sound notification not playing [See here for a fix]

[Reycer]

Originally Posted by IATV

Can somebody tell me, how can I get the scandinavian (finnish) letters/characters to work? The chatbox does not show them and stops working completely after you try to chat using them.

Upon reading the description. It looks as if only these languages are supported:

1.French
2.English
3.Spanish(Rafael Cazada)
4.Arabic (vborg : alessai)
5.German (vborg: captainslater)
6.Italian (vborg: cionfs)
7.Turkish (vborg: bocek)
8.Russian (butch3r)
9.Bosnian (vborg: benjaminbih)

[IATV]

Originally Posted by mdelcour

Upon reading the description. It looks as if only these languages are supported:

1.French
2.English
3.Spanish(Rafael Cazada)
4.Arabic (vborg : alessai)
5.German (vborg: captainslater)
6.Italian (vborg: cionfs)
7.Turkish (vborg: bocek)
8.Russian (butch3r)
9.Bosnian (vborg: benjaminbih)

There is a site here in Finland running this chatbox so that the Finnish characters do work. So there has to be a way to make them work. Also the characters work in the chatroom at the Forum Coding -website.

Some other characters also don't work. Like the character % for example.

I'm running vBulletin 4.1.5.

[GoNz00]

Originally Posted by GoNz00

wheres the hide chatbox option located please?

bump

[Alfa1]

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.6:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE vb_user SET mgc_cb_evo_ignored='49908' WHERE userid='106338';

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'mgc_cb_evo_ignored' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Sunday, August 7th 2011 @ 01:37:59 AM
Error Date : Sunday, August 7th 2011 @ 01:38:00 AM
Script : http://www.my-forum.com/forum/mgc_cb_evo_ajax.php
Referrer : http://www.my-forum.com/forum/private.php
IP Address : xxxx
Username : xxx
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.6:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE vb_user SET mgc_cb_evo_ignored='49908' WHERE userid='106338';

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'mgc_cb_evo_ignored' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Sunday, August 7th 2011 @ 01:37:59 AM
Error Date : Sunday, August 7th 2011 @ 01:38:00 AM
Script : http://www.my-forum.com/forum/mgc_cb_evo_ajax.php
Referrer : http://www.my-forum.com/forum/private.php
IP Address : xxxx
Username : xxx
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

Word of advice.... Always backup your db / www before any plugin install for the first time, or for any updates. You ALWAYS have a fallback....

In the event you didn't back it up, I'd simply uninstall the chat, make sure the tables dropped and reinstall....

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by KpDaCancunLegen

Good Afternoon,

I was hoping someone could help me. I currently have this chatbox running on my test forum with no issues. I might add, I am running vb4.14. However when i try and install a fresh copy on my main board which is also 4.14, I get this error. My test board had it prior to upgrade to 4.14 and my main board did not have it.

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, cgiadmin@yourhostingaccount.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Thanks for the help

Respectfully,

KP

Looks more of a limitation or server restriction...

Goto Diagnostics / Problematic Webserver Modules and see if Mod Security is Yes. If so, that's why.

[KpDaCancunLegen]

Thanks Ranger for the tip. However, I tried what you suggested and mod security is set to No on mine.

Originally Posted by Ranger187

Looks more of a limitation or server restriction...

Goto Diagnostics / Problematic Webserver Modules and see if Mod Security is Yes. If so, that's why.