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

[Probyte]

I noticed that I cannot edit the user group settings after I uninstalled MGC Chatbox Evo. It says there has been a database error, and I can completely see that it was caused by the chatbox.

It is uninstalled, but it still has the options to set it to the user groups, ect.

To uninstall it, I did the following.-

1.) Delete the product via the Admin CP.

2.) Delete all the files via FTP client.

How do I fix this?

Thanks,
Pyrobyte

[ShiZoPhreN]

*Installed and Nominated*

Any News about the next Version?

And i have an Feature Request a "ON/OFF"-Command for the Admin

[SnapOff Racing]

Originally Posted by ShiZoPhreN

*Installed and Nominated*

Any News about the next Version?

And i have an Feature Request a "ON/OFF"-Command for the Admin

You could just use the "Enable / Disable" feature in the "Manage Products" Screen

[Skyrider]

I'm not sure if you are familiar with this problem. But.. if you have multiple channels, you can't view the logs properly of those channels. You can view the first page of the logs, but if you go to page 2 it'll go to page 2.. but! It goes to page 2 of the first channel. It refuses to go to the page 2 of the selected channel.

[Soup^Dragon]

I have a problem that has been annoying me for a while now. It was in version 0.5.0 and I updated to 1.0.0 and i still get it.

When i click the link to view archives of the chat box or to view it in a full page i get an error and my page reloads to the CMPS page with the shout box missing. (see pic)

i have reinstalled the cmps system, i have deleted the module 'news' and re loaded a fresh copy. I have even commented the foreach section out of the module which got rid of the error but not the reload in cmps and missing chatbox.

I get the same error whether i click on the archive link in my forums or the cmps page

anyone?

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by big blue

Tried to install it but get this error....

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/functions_mgc_cb_evo.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/global.php(404) : eval()'d code on line 145

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/therockg/public_html/forum/includes/functions_mgc_cb_evo.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php52/pear') in /home/therockg/public_html/forum/global.php(404) : eval()'d code on line 145

You certainly haven't uploaded all the files.

Originally Posted by dreamer81

I installed this, and it works.

However, i find it irritating that you have to click refresh before other users posts are displayed.

Why not let them be pushed out to the client?

It's all a question of refresh rates. In all the chatbox this is like that and you are not supposed to click on the refresh button if your refresh rate is low

Originally Posted by buurman

You can set the refresh rate, so just set it shorter, like 2 seconds?

About my question, I dont have any other styles installed, just the one I use, to prevent problems..

Any idea in what template or php to search to play with the settings?
Older versions worked just fine, but than again, also updated to 3.7.3 just now...

EDIT: never mind... I needed to revert a customized template.. now its fixed!

Ah yes I forgot to ask that question to you he he.

Originally Posted by dreamer81

would be great if users could hide the chatbox completely. That is really my only concern.

Some users simply doesn't want this, and for those, a click on a X in the upper corner should hide it 4ever. untill they enable it in their CP again.

is this possible?? or perhaps a feature request?

I know they can minimize it, but it will still be partly visible.

They can totally disable the chatbox from they usercp options (which is the place where options are always ).

Originally Posted by CristianoDiaz

I am using vb 3.7.3 - if I upgrade to the latest version (1.0) of the chat box, the chat no longer works - when you input text, nothing is rendered - the whole chat area itself remains blank. Reverting back to any previous version fixes the problem.

Had you correcty upgraded to the new version :
1/ Total chatbox uninstall
2/ Upload of the new files
3/ Install new version

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by gtcompscientist

Any word on updates to address the bugs?

It's in progress, look at the thread post, every item in green is already corrected in the development version

Originally Posted by Probyte

I noticed that I cannot edit the user group settings after I uninstalled MGC Chatbox Evo. It says there has been a database error, and I can completely see that it was caused by the chatbox.

It is uninstalled, but it still has the options to set it to the user groups, ect.

To uninstall it, I did the following.-

1.) Delete the product via the Admin CP.

2.) Delete all the files via FTP client.

How do I fix this?

Thanks,
Pyrobyte

You have followed correctly the install instructions. Steps should have been 2 then 1.

Install the product again and then do step 2 and then 1

Originally Posted by FF|Skyrider

I'm not sure if you are familiar with this problem. But.. if you have multiple channels, you can't view the logs properly of those channels. You can view the first page of the logs, but if you go to page 2 it'll go to page 2.. but! It goes to page 2 of the first channel. It refuses to go to the page 2 of the selected channel.

With the 1.0 version ?

Originally Posted by Soup^Dragon

I have a problem that has been annoying me for a while now. It was in version 0.5.0 and I updated to 1.0.0 and i still get it.

When i click the link to view archives of the chat box or to view it in a full page i get an error and my page reloads to the CMPS page with the shout box missing. (see pic)

i have reinstalled the cmps system, i have deleted the module 'news' and re loaded a fresh copy. I have even commented the foreach section out of the module which got rid of the error but not the reload in cmps and missing chatbox.

I get the same error whether i click on the archive link in my forums or the cmps page

anyone?

The problem is not coming from the chatbox as it's located in the news.php file (at least the shown error).

What is the link url on which you clicked ? (full url plz)

[VBDev]

Urgent : I need someone with the PM popup problem on an online forum ! Please send me a test account on your forum by PM so that I can check it out.

[Soup^Dragon]

this is the url of the archive link

http://www.simiancage.org/forum/mgc_cb_evo.php?do=view_archives&page=1

[jerx]

Thanks for this great shoutbox!

Does anyone know how to display a user' s avatar next to his username?