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

[AWJunkies]

ANYONE WITH PROTOTYPE this mod is NOT compatible and will lock at refreshing the chatbox and not load. The programmer needs to fix this issue as jquery and prototype play nice with each other which means it is his code directly causing it. If you need more info and js error logs and so on let me know I can send them to you. Has to do with your js files.

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by AWJunkies

ANYONE WITH PROTOTYPE this mod is NOT compatible and will lock at refreshing the chatbox and not load. The programmer needs to fix this issue as jquery and prototype play nice with each other which means it is his code directly causing it. If you need more info and js error logs and so on let me know I can send them to you. Has to do with your js files.

So how bout we get a ton of people to come on there and start bashing that? Are you 2? Why not contact VBdev direrctly. The guy is extremely nice and you gotta come in talking trash.

Why not spend more time troubleshooting it? Or bring the errors to the table. This stuff really irritates me.

Maybe if you read, you would realize it could be a few things. ONE BEING MOD_SECURITY.

[AWJunkies]

Originally Posted by Ranger187

So how bout we get a ton of people to come on there and start bashing that? Are you 2? Why not contact VBdev direrctly. The guy is extremely nice and you gotta come in talking trash.

Why not spend more time troubleshooting it? Or bring the errors to the table. This stuff really irritates me.

Maybe if you read, you would realize it could be a few things. ONE BEING MOD_SECURITY.

This has nothing to do with bashing and no direct attack was made. I am sorry if you took it the wrong way. I am just letting people know an issue and the owner so he can fix it. It may be the cause of why people in past couple pages mentioned not loading. I know and understand he wont be back for a few weeks. I am just letting people know an issue so they can be aware and can either turn off any mod that uses prototype or turn off this chatbox. It is totally up to them. I am actually looking at his files to give the solution and a fix for it and send it to owner. I have the error logs and will send it to owner no reason to post it as won't make much sense to anyone who doesn't know javascript and coding. So again no bashing and no direct attack or harmful feelings towards developer at all sorry if it seemed that way. Here to help is all.

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by AWJunkies

This has nothing to do with bashing and no direct attack was made. I am sorry if you took it the wrong way. I am just letting people know an issue and the owner so he can fix it. It may be the cause of why people in past couple pages mentioned not loading. I know and understand he wont be back for a few weeks. I am just letting people know an issue so they can be aware and can either turn off any mod that uses prototype or turn off this chatbox. It is totally up to them. I am actually looking at his files to give the solution and a fix for it and send it to owner. I have the error logs and will send it to owner no reason to post it as won't make much sense to anyone who doesn't know javascript and coding. So again no bashing and no direct attack or harmful feelings towards developer at all sorry if it seemed that way. Here to help is all.

Thanks for the apology. I was kinda harsh. Been up for 2 days working on a huge server migration and crabby.

Thanks, I was expecting a typical "Ranger187" reply which is RAWR!

I'm guessing protytpe is yours? After looking around, Donation system? If there is an interoperability issue by all means lets hammer it out. (VBDev is on vacation until the 30th) but I've got a ton of time into debugging it on just about every freaking server lol. I've noticed it's either the .js, CRSF, or Mod Security which is mainly only on *ix based machines and not IIS based. If you need help looking into it (although your a coder so I'm sure you are way ahead of me on this) just shoot me a msg and I'll gladly offer help.

Now that I think about it, what you found might also be one of the reason the show oldest first has issues displaying based off that code. Who knows..... After looking at SQL and every code and OS since Friday my brain is fried.

[AWJunkies]

<a href="http://www.prototypejs.org/" target="_blank">http://www.prototypejs.org/</a>
Prototype not mine it is just like jquery. The two play nice with each other and have been for years. Since vB uses YUI most scrips SHOULD be made with it and not try to do jquery or prototype. You end up loading js scripts multiple times sometimes 4 times or more and becomes counter productive. Again looking into issue now will let you know what I come up with. Have to load this software on test site to really test.

[thecore762]

Originally Posted by AWJunkies

ANYONE WITH PROTOTYPE this mod is NOT compatible and will lock at refreshing the chatbox and not load. The programmer needs to fix this issue as jquery and prototype play nice with each other which means it is his code directly causing it. If you need more info and js error logs and so on let me know I can send them to you. Has to do with your js files.

Same issue here.

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by AWJunkies

http://www.prototypejs.org/
Prototype not mine it is just like jquery. The two play nice with each other and have been for years. Since vB uses YUI most scrips SHOULD be made with it and not try to do jquery or prototype. You end up loading js scripts multiple times sometimes 4 times or more and becomes counter productive. Again looking into issue now will let you know what I come up with. Have to load this software on test site to really test.

Ok. Yeah, I thought it was a plugin, that's why I'm like, sheesh. It's not even something on this site so that makes total sense why nobody ever heard of this issue. Would be nice not to have to do one of multiple different fixes for that loading issue for once

[AWJunkies]

Originally Posted by Ranger187

Ok. Yeah, I thought it was a plugin, that's why I'm like, sheesh. It's not even something on this site so that makes total sense why nobody ever heard of this issue. Would be nice not to have to do one of multiple different fixes for that loading issue for once

Yeah loading software on test site but wont get time till tomorrow to look at it and test and get fix for developer and you guys. It is late here and dam tired. Peace.

[Ranger187]

Yeah, 330am here. Taking my ambien and getting my 4 hours sleep. Thanks for offering to actually look into a solution.

[Kaycee123]

I have recently upgraded to the new version. Now there are at least 4 members who can't see any of the chats. They see the box, the BB code icons, and who's online, but no actual chats!!

I tried signing in as two of them, and I can see the chats just fine signed in as them. Here is a screenshot of what they are seeing:



Any suggestions? Also - one other weird thing, the chatbox was working fine for one of them this morning, and nothing was changed in the meantime.

EDIT: Two of them have just told me they can see it with IE but not with Firefox, but I use Firefox and I can see it fine.