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

[Saviour]

Update...

It would seem the language issue (in the Admin CP) corrected itself once I logged out and back in again.

However, after making the fix reported here, I'm still having the same warnings as reported before.

Any additional help? I mean...there's almost 400 pages of replies here.

[scott81603]

I just did the 2.4.2 upgrade and the archive function isnt center, its to the left. Is there a way to make it center?

[Saviour]

Decided to uninstall 2.4.2 and went with 2.4.1, for now anyway. At least I don't have the errors anymore.

[Elric]

I have make a downgrade to 2.3.2 and all its perfekt..i wait for upgrade, make it not before the vbcmps module is working...

[dallibose]

I installed and it seems to work fine except for that the language is something else..how can i change the default language to English....i have the English.xml file but do not know where to upload...or am i just missing a selection to english language...please help

[Sador]

Originally Posted by dallibose

I installed and it seems to work fine except for that the language is something else..how can i change the default language to English....i have the English.xml file but do not know where to upload...or am i just missing a selection to english language...please help

Did you bother to read the readme?

Go to your admin CP. Go to language & phrases, go to language manager, select 'download / upload language'.

Now select at the part where it says 'Import language XML file' the browse button, and choose the english XML file that was in the ZIP. Set overwrite to English, and set ignore language version to yes.

Now just press import.

Your admin CP index might still show French language, so go to your board index, log out, F5, whatever, go back to your admin CP and voila, it's all done.


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Installed it yesterday and I really like this addon. The chat looks very nice, it works quite well, and it's just what I've been looking for. There seems to be a small bug with the tabbed private chat, where soms thing appear double to yourself or some lines appear between others. And sometimes the chat won't autoreload anymore, it seems, but I think that's just the limitation of AJAX.

Thanks anyway for a great mod.

[dallibose]

thank you so much it worked...but now i need to also know where to upload images...it says to upload in all style folders...i only have one style folder inside images...how does this work...??? do you know...BTW you are great...please help me with this one...

[Sador]

Originally Posted by dallibose

thank you so much it worked...but now i need to also know where to upload images...it says to upload in all style folders...i only have one style folder inside images...how does this work...??? do you know...BTW you are great...please help me with this one...

Yeah, that one was actually a small mystery to me as well. You need to upload them in the /images/misc folder.

If that doesn't work, skip that step, go to the chat if everything else is done, and you'll notice the images aren't showing up (makes sense, you skipped that step. ) right click on one of the missing images, click properties, and look what link it gives you. (for example, for me it was http://www.sitename.com/forum/images/misc/mgc_cb_evo/mgc_cb_evo_refresh.gif for the refresh icon, so you need to upload it in the /images/misc folder)

Hope that helps.

[dallibose]

you are simply great...awesome..it works...thank you so much for your help...

[Sador]

You're welcome.