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

[gpc10347]

Things were great until I installed a certain arcade hack which in turn altered the font colors for the Time and the Chats in the chat window. Does anyone know which two StyleVars covers those areas?

Thanks!

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by sybakaos

Internet Explorer 8 seems to be unable to display /me and /slap messages in chatbox. Chrome and FireFox do show it correctly.

Message: Object required
Line: 2109
Char: 3
Code: 0
URI: http://rip.to/mgc_cb_evo/clientscript/mgc_cb_evo_functions.js

Hum it's strange, do you get any similar error if you look into the firefox console ?

Originally Posted by Jeweetog

I think it gets the time from the server your site is hosted. I get a difference of 2 hours (earlier) too.

Really ? It's using vB time/date manipulation stuff so there shouldn't be any difference.

Originally Posted by gpc10347

Things were great until I installed a certain arcade hack which in turn altered the font colors for the Time and the Chats in the chat window. Does anyone know which two StyleVars covers those areas?

Thanks!

Does that mod messes up with alt1/alt2 and so on styles ?
Because they aren't there anymore in vB4 so I redeclared them but only in the mgc_cb_evo spot.

So perhaps the arcade isn't doing it cleanly and redeclares it globally ? In that case it's the arcade mod's fault, he shouldn't have done it like that.

[Jeweetog]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Really ? It's using vB time/date manipulation stuff so there shouldn't be any difference.

Well the time of VB and your chatbox display the exact same thing. But on my own machine its 2 hours later.

The time in vb options are correctly set for my region. I'll look into this issue.

[kapii]

Good Job Bro, but I have a small problem... No sound for the chats... I've set the settings for it, but no joy... Is there a way to fix that?

Thanks,
kapii

[gpc10347]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Hum it's strange, do you get any similar error if you look into the firefox console ?

Does that mod messes up with alt1/alt2 and so on styles ?
Because they aren't there anymore in vB4 so I redeclared them but only in the mgc_cb_evo spot.

So perhaps the arcade isn't doing it cleanly and redeclares it globally ? In that case it's the arcade mod's fault, he shouldn't have done it like that.

By the way, Welcome Back

I too have the issue with the slap and me commands. Firefox reports no error from what I saw and I found it interesting that once I entered enough chats to take the /me command I had typed off of the screen, Explorer allowed me to continue however, never showed the actual /me text. (It actually submitted the /me text but never did display it - not even in the archive where Firefox was complete) Hows that for an oddity?

I'll post the question regarding the alt1/alt2 issue on the arcade support area but which StyleVar should I look at to change the time within the chats appearance? (if thats actually where I should be looking)

As always, Thanks for the Only reason I purchased vBulletin Suite!

[Kraxell]

Hello,

rly nice hack.
i installed it for 4.0.3 but i have a little question.
i use the forum-sidebar too and now the chatbox isnt 100% width. the chatbox is next to the sidebar. is it possible to set the chatbox 100% of forum-width?

[Jeweetog]

Originally Posted by Kraxell

Hello,

rly nice hack.
i installed it for 4.0.3 but i have a little question.
i use the forum-sidebar too and now the chatbox isnt 100% width. the chatbox is next to the sidebar. is it possible to set the chatbox 100% of forum-width?

Yes, look for option "Width of the chatbox when integrated to a page of the forum" , in "General options".

[will555559]

Originally Posted by Kraxell

Hello,

rly nice hack.
i installed it for 4.0.3 but i have a little question.
i use the forum-sidebar too and now the chatbox isnt 100% width. the chatbox is next to the sidebar. is it possible to set the chatbox 100% of forum-width?

Go to Style manager and open up the "FORUMHOME" template.

Look for {vb:raw template_hook.forumhome_above_forums}

Move it up about 6 lines so that it is above <vb:if condition="$show['sidebar']">

Hope that is what you were looking for.

[Jazzinto]

I have it installed in vb4.0.3 PL1 but the problem that I have is that I cannot create the channel TEAM, and not that can be happening, any solution?

Thank you.

[VipQBoy]

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