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

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by XiZa

It would be nice if you had an easier install like that other chat product. Yours is still superior though

You mean due to the command installation ?

This is because I wanted to allow coders to make their own commands.

Originally Posted by estatiktik

ok its my first install and its not showing it at all...

- Go in the Plugin manager of your admincp

- Edit the "Chatbox display on forumhome" plugin

- Replace : $search_text = '$forumhome_markread_script';

- By : $search_text = '$chatbox_forumhome';

- Then, go into the Style manager and edit the FORUMHOME template

- Put the $chatbox_forumhome var before the $footer var

i did that step but nothing happend and i cant find the $search_text but found it on $find = '$forumhome_markread_script';

what did i do wrong...please help...thanks

Have you set usergroup permissions ?

Originally Posted by XiZa

I just checked out the mgc_cb_evo_chat table, why are you not denormalizing the usernames? Like done in the thread and post table? Wouldn't that also make it less resource intensive? No extra , unnecessary join etc.

You are not exactly right. They indeed have the username in the post and thread tables but the joins are still there.

The username are in those table in case a user is removed from the system.

Originally Posted by XiZa

and same for the session table (who is online)

Same answer.

[estatiktik]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Have you set usergroup permissions ?

can u tell me how to do that exactly?...anyone thanks...

the chatbox is not showing on the forum permissions manager...

[VBDev]

It's not in the forum permissions manager but in the usergroup permissions manager

[Amm0]

Where do the xml's in the Commands folder go?!

[Amm0]

Oh my god....I've uploaded a few files from this pack, and somehow this error has appeared. My forums do not work at all!

Warning: Unknown([path]/includes/functions_mgc_cb_evo.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]\global.php(384) : eval()'d code on line 354

Fatal error: (null)() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'C:\Domains\epicsen.com\wwwroot/includes/functions_mgc_cb_evo.php' (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in C:\Domains\epicsen.com\wwwroot\global.php(384) : eval()'d code on line 354

Does anyone know what is going on, PLEASE HELP!

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Amm0

Where do the xml's in the Commands folder go?!

You should read the readme in the commands directory

Originally Posted by Amm0

Oh my god....I've uploaded a few files from this pack, and somehow this error has appeared. My forums do not work at all!


Warning: Unknown([path]/includes/functions_mgc_cb_evo.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]\global.php(384) : eval()'d code on line 354

Fatal error: (null)() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'C:\Domains\epicsen.com\wwwroot/includes/functions_mgc_cb_evo.php' (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in C:\Domains\epicsen.com\wwwroot\global.php(384) : eval()'d code on line 354

Does anyone know what is going on, PLEASE HELP!

You can't upload just a few files if you have imported the product which seems to be the case !

You haven't followed the instructions of the readme correctly, you are supposed to upload needed files and the import the product.

[Tekmon]

Originally Posted by VBDev

How do you set usergroups for a channel ? Once you have created a channel, you have to change them in the command attached to the channel.

Yes we have tried to assign/set usergroups for the channels but they do not save and thus it appears that the usergroups can thus not see the channels. I can look in the archives and see that the messages are in the appropriate channel but for some reason even as an admin I can not see them on the regular chat box.

[Tekmon]

Originally Posted by Astrof

EDIT: Figured it out. I entered the wrong code for the HTML character set. The dash was missing, I typed in ISO 639-2 instead of ISO-639-2. And now everything works and I am happy.

I do not know what you are talking about. I do not believe I change or made any entry for the html character set...

Can you tell me where you made this change so maybe I can get my chat box channels working?

[soundbarrierpro]

Wierd......I posted an issue today and it's gone. Anyway, Mine works but there seems to be a spanning issue on the forum. In my vbadvanced cmps module it works fine and spans no problem. On a 19" monitor it works fine on the forum, but on a 17-15 inch monitor it doesn't span right no matter how I adjust the resolutions. Instead it stays the same size and makes a horizontal scroll bar. I don't want that, I want the chat box to span to the proper width of the screen.

[PGAmerica]

Ever since I installed this mod, I have had general funkiness in my forums. Things don't line up rights, some images don't display and my ACP is all screwed up. Take a look at this screen cap of my ACP.

The only mod I have installed in my forums is this one. All the files and templates are completely unmodified except for whatever this one did.

I try to uninstall this, but when I goto my products page and select the "uninstall" option and press the "Go" button, nothing happens. None of my "Go" buttons work.

Without wiping my forums, how can I uninstall this if the program does not let me do it.

HELP!!