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

[txspaderz]

Ambiguous? You're not serious right? I hope you're being VERY sarcastic.

Originally Posted by joe1989

First of all, the first thing I don't understand is "Upload the content of the "Images" directory in each of your forum styles directories." What style directories? I have no directory called "styles."

Do you have a custom skin? You upload the images to the same folder.

Originally Posted by joe1989

Secondly, "Import the MGC Chatbox Evo product". What's that mean? Where do you go? How do you do that?

Have you ever installed a hack? If not, you might not want to mess with these as you will cause yourself more headaches. Try looking up some Documentation.

Originally Posted by joe1989

I think if the directions were a little less ambiguous, it'd be a lot easier to download and install...

Learn to use your forum before you go somewhere and call someones instructions 'ambiguous'

[txspaderz]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Strange, can you give me your forum url + test account ?

I got it figured out (I should have figured it out in the first place. My members like to look back at the days chats and see if they missed anything, so I usually keep the chats to around 200 kept in the box. I guess it was taking a second or so to pull the chats from the filesystem.

I dropped it to 50 and it's working like a charm now!

Rock on with your bad self

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by joe1989

OK, so in the Readme, I'm getting confused with the ambiguous directions.

First of all, the first thing I don't understand is "Upload the content of the "Images" directory in each of your forum styles directories." What style directories? I have no directory called "styles."

You do indeed have style directories if you have any custom styles. We also sometimes refer to them as "skins" or "themes". Styles have their own directories, which is usually the same name as the style. Like my forum uses two white/blue styles called Centura and Centura_X. So all the images for those are stored in a folder called centura. If you don't use any custom styles and you use the default theme that came with vBulletin, then you would add the images to your images folder. But if you use the default AND any custom themes, you need to add the images to each directory for a particular style, in addition to the images folder.

Secondly, "Import the MGC Chatbox Evo product". What's that mean? Where do you go? How do you do that?

It's in the folder called Product. It's called product-mgc_cb_evo.xml. You import that through your Admin CP >>> Plugins & Products >>> Manage Products >>> [Add/Import Product] >>> EITHER upload the XML file from your computer. Look for the XML file and import it, but only after you've uploaded all the appropriate files.

I think if the directions were a little less ambiguous, it'd be a lot easier to download and install...

It's not that they're ambiguous, but they're pretty standard for any mod installation. If your not familiar with mod installations, or you've never done one that wasn't a simple template modification, then I can understand why you'd be confused. But you'll find that almost all the major modifications here require these identical steps, and might even include some template modifications.

I'd recommend looking at some of the documentation, and even at some other mods on the forum. Once you get a feel for how everyone expresses things, installations will become second nature to you.

[joe1989]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

You do indeed have style directories if you have any custom styles. We also sometimes refer to them as "skins" or "themes". Styles have their own directories, which is usually the same name as the style. Like my forum uses two white/blue styles called Centura and Centura_X. So all the images for those are stored in a folder called centura. If you don't use any custom styles and you use the default theme that came with vBulletin, then you would add the images to your images folder. But if you use the default AND any custom themes, you need to add the images to each directory for a particular style, in addition to the images folder.




It's in the folder called Product. It's called product-mgc_cb_evo.xml. You import that through your Admin CP >>> Plugins & Products >>> Manage Products >>> [Add/Import Product] >>> EITHER upload the XML file from your computer. Look for the XML file and import it, but only after you've uploaded all the appropriate files.




It's not that they're ambiguous, but they're pretty standard for any mod installation. If your not familiar with mod installations, or you've never done one that wasn't a simple template modification, then I can understand why you'd be confused. But you'll find that almost all the major modifications here require these identical steps, and might even include some template modifications.

I'd recommend looking at some of the documentation, and even at some other mods on the forum. Once you get a feel for how everyone expresses things, installations will become second nature to you.

OK, thank you for your explanation! I got that completed. However, now that it's all installed, and I did the language thing and everything like that, how do I get it to actually show up in the admin cp or in the forums pages? I can see it in the admin cp, but only in code, like there are boxes with the php coding, and then i can edit it, but where do i go to actually configure the program??

Thanks again...

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by joe1989

OK, thank you for your explanation! I got that completed. However, now that it's all installed, and I did the language thing and everything like that, how do I get it to actually show up in the admin cp or in the forums pages? I can see it in the admin cp, but only in code, like there are boxes with the php coding, and then i can edit it, but where do i go to actually configure the program??

Thanks again...

Did you add the content of the Files folder to the correct folders in your forum?

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by maidos

is it possible if anyone could give us a quick fix, since its too long to wait till saturday or another week

You shouldn't be that in a hurry.

Requesting a quick fix is dangerous you know, it's better to take time to do something rather than hurrying.

Bitwise saturday is in 2 days...

The fix is not a simple line to add but multiple lines to add to comply with the new vbulletin cross scripting avoidance mean.

Originally Posted by txspaderz

I got it figured out (I should have figured it out in the first place. My members like to look back at the days chats and see if they missed anything, so I usually keep the chats to around 200 kept in the box. I guess it was taking a second or so to pull the chats from the filesystem.

I dropped it to 50 and it's working like a charm now!

Rock on with your bad self

Hum,
200 is indeed a big number of chats but shouldn't have caused a lag. I will need to test that if I can somehow a day

[joe1989]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Did you add the content of the Files folder to the correct folders in your forum?

I did. I got all the commands set up correctly, too, but I can't get it to show up on the forums page. Where do I "turn it on"? I found the setting that says "position of the chatbox" (correctly configured), and also the one that says "activate chatbox" (also configured), but I can't get anything to show up on the home page. Why is this?

Thanks for your help...

[Digital Jedi]

Sounds like you already do have it turned on. Display and position should control the rest.

[joe1989]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Sounds like you already do have it turned on. Display and position should control the rest.

I can't figure it out. Everything seems to be set correctly, but it won't show up anywhere on my forums. I've tried multiple variations of settings, but nothing will work. There is no chat box on my home page...

EDIT: I tried the direct link to the chatbox, which was http://[mydomainhere]/forums/mgc_cb_...o=view_chatbox

When I did that, I got an error message that read: Joe, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.


What's the permission setting I have wrong?! I've checked the command permission settings, but all of them allow administrators access; I am an administrator, and I am the administrator, lol...why don't I have access??

[Digital Jedi]

Heh, yeah, I forgot, I got that error too. By default, no one has permission. When you get permission errors after installing a mod, go to your Usergroup Manager and look for the settings for the modification. Generally speaking, Usergroup Permissions will be added as separate setting under each Usergroup. Just adjust Administrators and whoever else you want to use the mod under their respective group settings.