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

[verino]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Hi,

About that bell feature, the problem would be that users could abuse from such a feature don't you think ?

yeah you're right.

Can't hardly waiting for your new release with the channel feature working

[Greenskull]

Originally Posted by Ranger187

Buddy, you really need to work on your replies, too vague.

If you uinstalled, then reinstall and then uninstall again. According to your reply, you didn't reinstall then uninstall as I suggested to recreate the tables and then remove them.

If you had MGC (non evo one) chat prior and didn't remove that, it might have caused an error....

This is why people need to learn to backup the database when they add ANY hack/addon... I take one weekly regardless of what's done.

buddy, you need to stop being a ++++ and calm down.

Okay so I uninstalled then reinstalled then uninstalled then reinstalled. The problem still happens. It goes away when I uninstall, but I actually want this chatbox.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by gpc10347

Absolutely! /bell username is something I've actually used before and it get's a little annoying but, it can't be worse than the ringtones I hear constantly while shopping anymore! ; )

Hum, I add it but dunno if I will ever implement it.

Originally Posted by Greenskull

buddy, you need to stop being a ++++ and calm down.

Okay so I uninstalled then reinstalled then uninstalled then reinstalled. The problem still happens. It goes away when I uninstall, but I actually want this chatbox.

Yeah guyz please calm down a bit

Your error is very strange. If you import correctly the product, a field shall be created in the usergroup table, don't you see it ?

[paldo]

VBDev im up and running with your wonderful chat once again . the reason i was getting a white page on load was a old shimmer usergroup legend hack...thanks for all you do once again


heres what crashed it for me

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ergroup+Legend

[Greenskull]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Hum, I add it but dunno if I will ever implement it.



Yeah guyz please calm down a bit

Your error is very strange. If you import correctly the product, a field shall be created in the usergroup table, don't you see it ?

yes its there, but when i press save or whatever while in usergroups, i get an error.

[Harley D]

Have this working! So far so good.
Thanks for such a Great mod!!

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by Greenskull

buddy, you need to stop being a ++++ and calm down.

Okay so I uninstalled then reinstalled then uninstalled then reinstalled. The problem still happens. It goes away when I uninstall, but I actually want this chatbox.

I was being calm. I was simply stating you need to be more detailed. That is it. By doing what I said, it resolved the partial issue, but now you still have what seems to be a bitfield issue?

I know that by accident when I already had the old MGC Chat, I installed the Evo chat and I had both the old and EVO chat permissions in the usergroup.

My first suggestion. Take a full dB backup. You can't go wrong doing this. If it goes away when you uninstall, then possibly you are installing wrong? Have a corrupt zip with the files... I would d/l the old chat, and new chat. Extract the files. Make sure it's uninstalled from the forum, then go in via FTP, and double check that all the extracted files in the dirs locally are removed from the server remotely. Do a backup again. Optimize the dB, check for any errors in MySQL. Rebuild all the templates etc and then download the addon again and reinstall. This time when you install the plugin, select overwrite as well when you import it.

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by paldo

VBDev im up and running with your wonderful chat once again . the reason i was getting a white page on load was a old shimmer usergroup legend hack...thanks for all you do once again


heres what crashed it for me

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ergroup+Legend

Ack. Thats good to know. I remove anything that's not the same version or previous version when it comes to hacks. Ie if 3.7 is out, I won't use anything below 3.6.x. Most old hacks will cause a headache on the new versions which you proved again. Glad it's working now.

[Greenskull]

Originally Posted by Ranger187

I was being calm. I was simply stating you need to be more detailed. That is it. By doing what I said, it resolved the partial issue, but now you still have what seems to be a bitfield issue?

I know that by accident when I already had the old MGC Chat, I installed the Evo chat and I had both the old and EVO chat permissions in the usergroup.

My first suggestion. Take a full dB backup. You can't go wrong doing this. If it goes away when you uninstall, then possibly you are installing wrong? Have a corrupt zip with the files... I would d/l the old chat, and new chat. Extract the files. Make sure it's uninstalled from the forum, then go in via FTP, and double check that all the extracted files in the dirs locally are removed from the server remotely. Do a backup again. Optimize the dB, check for any errors in MySQL. Rebuild all the templates etc and then download the addon again and reinstall. This time when you install the plugin, select overwrite as well when you import it.

argh, I can't rebuild templates because I have modified ones. Maybe that's what's causing the problem.

Anyone know? It's mega inconvenient to update because I've modified them greatly. My unupdated ones are:

ARCADE
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[Ranger187]

This is why you always keep the default template and not edit it.

Look into this hack: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=152931

Your templates should not affect this at all. When I said rebuild I meant exactly:

Admin CP > Maintenance > Update Counters > <==== Run those... I forget how you rebuild the bitfields. I'm pretty sure when you delete files and goto usergroups it does it automatically.