Chat Modifications - MGC Chatbox (with AJAX)

Last version - MGC Chatbox Evo available : here

Description

When I had left the vBulletin world, I was in the past the co-author of a little chatbox (shoutbox), very well known in the vBulletin world.
This chatbox had been developed by Svaliotti (known as Poseidon on vb.org) for vB2 in the past and I had made the porterage (with is authorisation as we were both members of the same french non-official support forum) and the improvement for vB3.

It is thus normal that in my return in the vBulletin world, I begin by getting down to this hack. Even if several versions of chatbox are already present in the vBulletin world, I said to myself that it would be a good thing to make a made in France.

Naturally, I don't deal with a "copy" version of the other chatbox, I have any coded at the beginning (it was preferable because the front code wasn't so clean any more), and I integrated a good quantity of very interesting features.

New version features

The new version contains all the features from the previous version. Description of these versions can be found in Sofia's post hereabove (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1257510&postcount=3).

Modifications from previous version are the following :

• 1.5 :
  • Fixed bugs :
    • Chatbox is shown two times in full page mode when the Display on all pages under the navbar option is selected.
    • "Fermer" is not in a sentence.
    • Overflow problem with Netscape.
    • Uppercase transformed to lowercase in the PM channel.
    • The ban cron debans user indefinitly banned.
    • Chatbox continuously loading on some forums.
    • Inactivity and guests problem.
    • Team icon blinking is not working properly.
    • Coma error in the who is online.
    • 2 spaces instead of one between the date and the time.
  • New functionnalities :
    • Option to deactivate the random smilies.
    • Option to deactivate the automatic PM sending when banning a user.
    • New permission to allow or not the downloading of shouts.
    • Option to specify the name under which unregistered users shouts appear.
    • Syntax change for the /ban, /ignore, /del, /pm commands : Possibility to use them with the username or the userid (For more information about the new syntax, check the help button in the chatbox).
  • Removed functionnalities :
    • vBAdvanced integration [TEMPORARLY] => See this for integration with this version https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=163628

This hack is very light in term of queries : only one for every recharging / refreshment of the chatbox and 5 for the statistics in the load of the page if you actiate them. If you don't activate advanced options of course as stated aside each in the acp

Installation

Read the file "Installation" in the pack.

Once the installation is ended, go in usergroups and edit permissions to see the Chatbox.

By default, no group has access to the chatbox.

Screenshots

The screenshots are in french as I have made it on an online website which is in french. Don't hesitate to give me new one if you want in english

They are up to date of 1.3 version.

See the following post : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1292136&postcount=559

User manual

Coming soon ...

Copyright

This hack is under copyright MGC (Mtor&Grog Corporation) 2007-forever and was developed for vBulletin-Resources.com & vb-hacks.org. Its redistribution on another forum that vbulletin-ressources.com, vb-hacks.org or vbulletin.org are prohibited without aggreement of the authors!

Evolutions and improvements

This sixth version of the chatbox is already very complete, but like each product, its evolution depends on all. Then don't hesitate especially to share your ideas of improvements so that we can improve even more this chatbox.

Languages

Actually available :

1. French
2. English
3. Arabic [Translator : alessai]
4. German [Translator : captainslater]
5. Vietnamese [Translator : Anhyeu12000]
6. Turkish [Translator : neutralizer and bocek]
7. Spanish [Translator : obmob] [TO BE UPDATED FOR 1.5]

To be available [Translation in progress] :

1. Bosnian [Translator : Benjaminbih]

[FONT='Calibri','sans-serif']For the translators : phrases with version number 1.5 in the English language file are the one that have been modified or added in the new version so you should probably find the modification for your language file easily.[/font]

Contact me if you want to participate and add your own country language file

Support

Several possible problems are explained in the file "Read Me"
Chatbox in iBProarcade and vBadvanced CMPS

See the readme file for iBProarcade.

For vbadvanced, a module is available here : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=163628.

FAQ

Q: I installed the chatbox but it doesn't display
R: Check if you have allowed users (permissions in usergroups)

Q: I see shouts but in the collapsed chatbox
R: You can specify number of shouts in the collapsed chatbox. If you don't want to see it, put "0" for this option.

Q: The chatbox doesn't display below or in the top of one of the pages while in the other position it displays
R: You use a style and it's possible that variables used in templates aren't present. (Read the file "Read Me")

Q: I have a problem with accents in the Chatbox
R: Read the file "Read Me"

Q: How to change the value of color for date and for command /me?
R: When you add additionnal CSS for each style, you can change color in class CSS.

Thanks to Sofia for her earlier help on the chatbox.

You can donate if you want to show your support

Last version - MGC Chatbox Evo available : here

[Andres Kello]

Hi again VBDev,

How can I make it so that the archive only displays the shouts made in the last 24 hours?

My users are concerned with their privacy and they don't want all their chats stored for several days for everyone to read.

I entered 1 for "Numbers of days of the shouts to remove", but it didn't do anything and the old chats are still in the archive. It mentions that the "automatic task of cleaning of the chatbox" needs to be activated, but I could not find where to activate that either.

Please advise.

Thanks for your time,
Andres

[Stifler]

Private messages stopped working says: "user does not exist" now..

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by dirty68

Hey dev why does it say that im the only person in the online channel when the shoutbox is full at the mo

Because it doesn't work well. I don't why and I am wondering if this functionnality shall not be removed coz If I do a kind of session table for the chatbox, it would add queries.

This is marked in the 2.0 todo list.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by ronx

one of my users is having problems with safari .. chatbox doesn't display any text when viewing with safari3 on mac OS X 10.4.10 .... any ideas ?

thx, ronx

I have developped it on MAC OS X 10.4.10 (but maybe it was safari 2) and it was working like a charm.

Maybe I shall test with safari 3, but when you tell it doesn't display any text, this means no test at all, no loading message ?

Originally Posted by Andres Kello

Hi again VBDev,

How can I make it so that the archive only displays the shouts made in the last 24 hours?

My users are concerned with their privacy and they don't want all their chats stored for several days for everyone to read.

I entered 1 for "Numbers of days of the shouts to remove", but it didn't do anything and the old chats are still in the archive. It mentions that the "automatic task of cleaning of the chatbox" needs to be activated, but I could not find where to activate that either.

Please advise.

Thanks for your time,
Andres

You have to go in the cron manager to activate it

Originally Posted by Stifler

Private messages stopped working says: "user does not exist" now..

Becareful, this command has changed, the syntax is not the same as before. You have to look in the chatbox's help to get the new syntax

Or clik on the little pencil.

There was a bug in the first zip file for the pencil thing but it is corrected in the actual zip.

[VBDev]

* Zip file updated with new turkish language version

[bocek]

Hi VBDev,

I know I asked a lot
But can you please check this?

I have an archieve of 15 pages.
And only want to see Team Channel shouts.
When I select show only team shouts, I see that I have 9 pages of team shouts.
when I click to any pages of this team shouts archieve, it shows "ALL shouts" including general again with 15 pages .
Therefore seems like impossible to reach 2 nd page of old team shouts from archieve.

Thanking you in advance.

[VBDev]

Oh this might be a bug yes you're right.

I note it

[alessai]

for those who are waiting for the arabic file ill finish it form today

[Chadi]

I just installed this would like to do the following if possible:

- alternating row colors
- add a small mp3 player
- add user list right column

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by chadi

- alternating row colors

I could possibly yes.

Originally Posted by chadi

- add a small mp3 player

No I won't sorry.

Originally Posted by chadi

- add user list right column

Neither will I do that as it is already a mess to make it work in a separate channel and I was thinking of maybe removing it so won't do that