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

[furst]

Whoa, this newest version is pretty buggy.

It lags something awful.

It "jumps" every once in a while. I think this may be because I have new shouts appearing at the bottom.

When I click a smilie it scrolls the entire page down to the very bottom, for some reason.

Animated smilies sometimes freeze.

People aren't showing up in WOL.

Also, when I have the inactivity mode enabled, SOME users only see "Idle" in the chatbox regardless of what they do.

How do I revert back to the older version? Just upload the files and import one of the products again?

[alessai]

It "jumps" every once in a while. I think this may be because I have new shouts appearing at the bottom.

When I click a smilie it scrolls the entire page down to the very bottom, for some reason.

i saw some soultion for this search for it in the 39 pages

[Karabaja]

Originally Posted by Tulsa

I am still experiencing this issue. I have the oldest at the top and the text bar at the bottom.


Edit: I changed the "hide refreshing display" to "yes" and it appears to be working.

I changed auto refresh and hide refreshing display options and eventually returned them to original values I had this problem with(both to yes) and it is working fine now.

[Quantnet]

Originally Posted by alessai

go in the installtion file and go to the Display the Chatbox on some styles section
do the changes and put $chatbox_forumhome under the stat code

I put it on top of $footer, where should i put it ?

[nureeves]

• Which line at mgc_chatbox template that i have to edit, to change background color of chatbox?
• How to resize the height of chatbox?

[unitedpunjab]

<font color="Red">thnx

*v 1.3 Installed and working like a champ</font>

[matDDH]

just upgraded from 1.2 and there are a couple of questions that if answerd would make this the best chat box ever for my users.

First I dont see where you can see what users are online in the chat with you. Is this the "WOL" channel (sorry dont know what "WOL" means maybe "whos online"?) WOL chan doesnt seem to do anything right now in any mode for me including full chat mode.

Second; if i am in the regular channel and someone says something in the team channel my icon does not blink... and yes i have turned this option on.

Third; Could you enlighten me on how to change it from saying canal regular / canal team to make it say Regular channel / Team Channel?

[nutnut]

Not sure if this has been suggested, but I have another chat box that displays a line whenever someone posts a new thread or post in the forums. I really love that so I can hang out on the index and chat and watch for new posts at the same time. Any possibility of adding this? Thanks, great work!

[gothicuser]

Finally did it!!
Using an iframe (I know it's not too tidy) got the chatbox working in vBAdvanced

[Magnumutz]

Good job with the update and the new features
*Updates*