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

[ramsayeg]

The product totally messed up my admincp. I deleted the files, uninstalled the plugin but this still appears in my Usergroup Manager:



Just a blank menu instead of the regular MGC Chatbox menu. Now, when I try and save new settings the following error comes up:

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'mgc_cb_evo_permissions' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Sunday, July 13th 2008 @ 03:26:59 PM
Error Date : Sunday, July 13th 2008 @ 03:26:59 PM

It is basically trying to save to a column that doesn't exist, since I removed the mod. There's a temporary solution - I basically re-imported the product and disabled it, and then everything is just fine.

Any permanent solution from the author of the mod? Please help!

[xoutlawz00x]

updated template works fine now

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

I tried uninstalling the product and now my forums wont load. PLEASE HELP.

all I did was remove the files from each directory (from the "Files" folder). I went to the admin page to uninstall the xml and I get a blank page.

(please note I'm only uninstalling this because I dont feel a chat box is right for my forum, the product itself worked just fine)

please help, I'm freakin out

You must carefully follow these steps if you don't want to screw up your forum when uninstalling the chatbox.

1/ Uninstall all the commands you had installed on the forum
2/ Remove the chatbox files from your forum directories
3/ Uninstall the MGC Chatbox Evo product
4/ You're done with the uninstall


I went straight to step 2 because I had no commands installed.

just a note for everyone....

you must uninstall the xml FIRST, remove files SECOND. otherwise the forum will crash.

[RedGTiVR6]

it appears as if the error is no more!

However, now I have other issues.

When i use firebug, and I go to the full page chat box, I see the following:

vB_AJAX_Handler.prototype.fetch_data() is deprecated. Use responseXML.getElementsByTagName("x")[i].firstChild.nodeValue instead.chatbox.html (line 34)
POST http://forums.fluxmedia.net/mgc_cb_evo_ajax.php 243ms

Every time it refreshes.

Also, when I type a response, I don't see it come up. in fact, it's almost like there is not chat box visible, just the back ground.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Diana Notacat

Feature request; Tachy goes to Coventry support! (you know, that cool global ignore feature!) Or a similar "global ignore" feature for the chat.

I am not english native so I don't at all what Tachy to coventry is... Explain it to me in a more detailled way or I won't be able to understand you

Originally Posted by princeedward

BUMP!

If you follow instructions correctly you shall be able to get it working.

Main errors that user do are not setting usergroup permissions or following the style issue fix as some of you have totally customized styles which contains missing var used for automatic chatbox insertion in templates.

Originally Posted by poolking

You've still not fixed the issue regarding the page navigation in the archives.

I am pretty sure I did, are you sure you updated the files on your ftp ?

Originally Posted by RedGTiVR6

it appears as if the error is no more!

However, now I have other issues.

When i use firebug, and I go to the full page chat box, I see the following:



Every time it refreshes.

Also, when I type a response, I don't see it come up. in fact, it's almost like there is not chat box visible, just the back ground.

Yes I know that, it's not a bug as It can be used and shall work. I think that it works if you don't have firebug active ?

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by edongski

I'm having this issue as well. I tried removing the PM command in the chatbox but it persisted. I disabled the chatbox and tried to PM someone, the PM pop-up appeared.

Is there a workaround for this?

Thanks in advance.

Can you explain me exactly the problem coz it doesn't seem to be very clear to me.

What have you done exactly ? What's going wrong ?

Please give details, a simple phrase is not enough to imagine what you did...

Originally Posted by xoutlawz00x

Can someone please help me ive installed this chat box and it gives me a security token error only on 1 or my templates.. i added <input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" /> after every value="$session[sessionhash]" but i seem to still get this error chat box was stuck at loading

Why have you done that, this is not what you should do at all !

If you are having a tokensecurity issue with the chatbox for ensure that you have a vBulletin version greater than 3.6.10 or 3.7.0 Gold if yes then check that you don't have modified templates that need to be reverted.

Otherwise, follow the instruction on the readme.

Originally Posted by ramsayeg

The product totally messed up my admincp. I deleted the files, uninstalled the plugin but this still appears in my Usergroup Manager:



Just a blank menu instead of the regular MGC Chatbox menu. Now, when I try and save new settings the following error comes up:

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'mgc_cb_evo_permissions' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Sunday, July 13th 2008 @ 03:26:59 PM
Error Date : Sunday, July 13th 2008 @ 03:26:59 PM

It is basically trying to save to a column that doesn't exist, since I removed the mod. There's a temporary solution - I basically re-imported the product and disabled it, and then everything is just fine.

Any permanent solution from the author of the mod? Please help!

You have to uninstalll things correctly... There is a readme please follow it !

You were supposed to remove the files and then uninstall the xml and you did the contrary this is why you get that error.

[RedGTiVR6]

I've tried this in IE7 and FF3 and I cannot see any responses to what I've typed.

I type something, hit enter, and nothing shows up.

[Nevets2329]

Not marking installed if does not work.

[obmob]

So...after months i decided it was time to uninstall the old MGC and move to EVO.

I did uninstall everything before installing... now, i installed EVO and it seems everything was wonderful... then set my permissions as admin to do whatever i want.

Now, I go to theforum to test the new chatbox, type my message... and click ok.

Nothing Oo

Another try... and another, nothing is shown in the chatbox. Then i checked the archives, nothing there.

I went to verify my sql tables, there are vb_mgc_cb_evo_channel, vb_mgc_cb_evo_chat, vb_mgc_cb_evo_command, vb_mgc_cb_evo_command_code and vb_mgc_cb_evo_session.

No message was saved on them... what did i do wrong? u.u

I'll start reading the whole 135 pages ^^'

[RedGTiVR6]

obmob - I've run into the same issues for some reason.

Hopefully we'll find some others as well so we can figure out where the problem lies.