Version: 3.4.0, by VBDev
Developer Last Online: Dec 2021
Category: Chat Modifications -
Version: 4.2.x
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Released: 01-27-2008
Last Update: 09-01-2013
Installs: 2476
DB Changes Uses Plugins Template Edits Auto-Templates
Additional Files Translations
No support by the author.
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
There have been reports on problems with utf-8 in this thread, but those seem to be fixed. Unfortunately utf-8 is not working for me. When I switch the language to utf-8, the shoutbox won' t be displayed in IE7. It works fine in FF3.
In IE7 you are able to view the archive, but small and full-size shoutbox won' t be loaded.
chatbox timeout is no longer working after i upgraded to 1.1.0. also some of the new database tables weren't created during the upgrade so I had to do them manually. Is the timeout also related to a missing database table?
i have a minor problem, it seems that the chatbox is being inserted below my thread list description and above the thread list itself. ideally, id like the thread list description to be below the chatbox (and just above the thread list). yet i can't seem to find where in my template code the chatbox is being inserted. can anyone help me with this? look here to see an example:
note that the forum sections' description is above the chatbox, instead of being down by the "new thread" button over the list of topics.
any help would be much appreciated!
To achieve this I think you have to follow the style issue how to in the chatbox readme even if you don't really have a style issue but more a chatbox placement concern
Quote:
Originally Posted by jediteknoman
Whereabouts is the "Help file" for the chatbox?
At the moment I'm seeing a mixture of English and French wording... here's an example.
Is there a way to put it just to the one language of our chosing? Or can we edit that? Cheers
It's no help file. Have you imported the english language file ?
Quote:
Originally Posted by jerx
There have been reports on problems with utf-8 in this thread, but those seem to be fixed. Unfortunately utf-8 is not working for me. When I switch the language to utf-8, the shoutbox won' t be displayed in IE7. It works fine in FF3.
In IE7 you are able to view the archive, but small and full-size shoutbox won' t be loaded.
Do you have the template name in HTML comments option activated in your vBulletin forums setup ?
Quote:
Originally Posted by thedark1
chatbox timeout is no longer working after i upgraded to 1.1.0. also some of the new database tables weren't created during the upgrade so I had to do them manually. Is the timeout also related to a missing database table?
Hum you mean the inactive function ? I have tested it recently and it does (on the current up-to-be-released version).
I am having issues with my 2 other channels, this only happens when i sticky a chat in gen channel, it seems to stop the other channels working and no chats are displayed, i turned off the sticky feature in user groups and removed the stuck chat all working fine now, any cure for this?
A setting of vB, you can find it by searching within your browser
I cannot find the setting. I have searched for html and for comments, but such an option does not exist in default vb options. Can you please give further information?
I cannot find the setting. I have searched for html and for comments, but such an option does not exist in default vb options. Can you please give further information?
In your AdminCP
vBulletin Options > General Settings > Add Template Name in HTML Comments
The "Add Template Name in HTML Comments" is set to no. I have turned it on, but then the shoutbox will even be empty on iso encoding. Therefore I turned it off again.
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