Chat Modifications - MGC Chatbox (with AJAX)

Last version - MGC Chatbox Evo available : here

Description

When I had left the vBulletin world, I was in the past the co-author of a little chatbox (shoutbox), very well known in the vBulletin world.
This chatbox had been developed by Svaliotti (known as Poseidon on vb.org) for vB2 in the past and I had made the porterage (with is authorisation as we were both members of the same french non-official support forum) and the improvement for vB3.

It is thus normal that in my return in the vBulletin world, I begin by getting down to this hack. Even if several versions of chatbox are already present in the vBulletin world, I said to myself that it would be a good thing to make a made in France.

Naturally, I don't deal with a "copy" version of the other chatbox, I have any coded at the beginning (it was preferable because the front code wasn't so clean any more), and I integrated a good quantity of very interesting features.

New version features

The new version contains all the features from the previous version. Description of these versions can be found in Sofia's post hereabove (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1257510&postcount=3).

Modifications from previous version are the following :

• 1.5 :
  • Fixed bugs :
    • Chatbox is shown two times in full page mode when the Display on all pages under the navbar option is selected.
    • "Fermer" is not in a sentence.
    • Overflow problem with Netscape.
    • Uppercase transformed to lowercase in the PM channel.
    • The ban cron debans user indefinitly banned.
    • Chatbox continuously loading on some forums.
    • Inactivity and guests problem.
    • Team icon blinking is not working properly.
    • Coma error in the who is online.
    • 2 spaces instead of one between the date and the time.
  • New functionnalities :
    • Option to deactivate the random smilies.
    • Option to deactivate the automatic PM sending when banning a user.
    • New permission to allow or not the downloading of shouts.
    • Option to specify the name under which unregistered users shouts appear.
    • Syntax change for the /ban, /ignore, /del, /pm commands : Possibility to use them with the username or the userid (For more information about the new syntax, check the help button in the chatbox).
  • Removed functionnalities :
    • vBAdvanced integration [TEMPORARLY] => See this for integration with this version https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=163628

This hack is very light in term of queries : only one for every recharging / refreshment of the chatbox and 5 for the statistics in the load of the page if you actiate them. If you don't activate advanced options of course as stated aside each in the acp

Installation

Read the file "Installation" in the pack.

Once the installation is ended, go in usergroups and edit permissions to see the Chatbox.

By default, no group has access to the chatbox.

Screenshots

The screenshots are in french as I have made it on an online website which is in french. Don't hesitate to give me new one if you want in english

They are up to date of 1.3 version.

See the following post : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1292136&postcount=559

User manual

Coming soon ...

Copyright

This hack is under copyright MGC (Mtor&Grog Corporation) 2007-forever and was developed for vBulletin-Resources.com & vb-hacks.org. Its redistribution on another forum that vbulletin-ressources.com, vb-hacks.org or vbulletin.org are prohibited without aggreement of the authors!

Evolutions and improvements

This sixth version of the chatbox is already very complete, but like each product, its evolution depends on all. Then don't hesitate especially to share your ideas of improvements so that we can improve even more this chatbox.

Languages

Actually available :

1. French
2. English
3. Arabic [Translator : alessai]
4. German [Translator : captainslater]
5. Vietnamese [Translator : Anhyeu12000]
6. Turkish [Translator : neutralizer and bocek]
7. Spanish [Translator : obmob] [TO BE UPDATED FOR 1.5]

To be available [Translation in progress] :

1. Bosnian [Translator : Benjaminbih]

[FONT='Calibri','sans-serif']For the translators : phrases with version number 1.5 in the English language file are the one that have been modified or added in the new version so you should probably find the modification for your language file easily.[/font]

Contact me if you want to participate and add your own country language file

Support

Several possible problems are explained in the file "Read Me"
Chatbox in iBProarcade and vBadvanced CMPS

See the readme file for iBProarcade.

For vbadvanced, a module is available here : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=163628.

FAQ

Q: I installed the chatbox but it doesn't display
R: Check if you have allowed users (permissions in usergroups)

Q: I see shouts but in the collapsed chatbox
R: You can specify number of shouts in the collapsed chatbox. If you don't want to see it, put "0" for this option.

Q: The chatbox doesn't display below or in the top of one of the pages while in the other position it displays
R: You use a style and it's possible that variables used in templates aren't present. (Read the file "Read Me")

Q: I have a problem with accents in the Chatbox
R: Read the file "Read Me"

Q: How to change the value of color for date and for command /me?
R: When you add additionnal CSS for each style, you can change color in class CSS.

Thanks to Sofia for her earlier help on the chatbox.

You can donate if you want to show your support

Last version - MGC Chatbox Evo available : here

[beduino]

hello,
all the mod is fine [better, better and better ]
the users of vb-brasil choose this hack of chat !
But...
How integrate with vbadvanced 3.01?

This integration works only if you activate the display on defined pages in a variable.

Here is how to make it work:

1. Go in the admincp, in the "Display and position" chatbox option page.
2. Activate the "Display on defined pages of the forum in a variable" option.
3. Then in the pages list, add : arcade and then validate.
4. Create a new vBadvanced template based module with the following parameters :
   • Title : MGC Chatbox
   • Template to include : mgc_chatbox
   • Styles : the style on which you want the module to be shown
   • Template content : $mgc_chatbox
   • Select no for the wrapper template option
   • Then validate
5. In the edit modules page, add the chatbox module to the homepage on the center wherever you want it to be positionned.
6. Enjoy

I make all - changing the 'arcade' do adv_index and don't work ... Any suggestions?
[in vblinks - script=adv_links] don't work too...

But thanks for your finest code and support

Beduino

[captainslater]

Originally Posted by paldo

whats with the new file today its the same version whats been fixed ?

edit .. i see the templates has been updated by the looks of the date ..

German language was added too.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by slyreptile

Found the greyed out problem, but not really sure how to resolve it. To achieve the transparency, I use an css file that contains lines similar to this under each div tag:

filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='../trans.png', sizingMethod='scale');

This is what is causing IE to show the boxes as disabled. At the same time, without this line IE does not handle the transparent png file properly. If a png file is used where a textbox exists, it will cause this issue. I know this isn't your problem. I'm just updating my previous posts. I'll take this conversation elsewhere.

I know this is not your problem, nor have anything to do with your script. Just updating my previous posts with new information. I'll take this topic somewhere else.

That's ok, this is advanced javascript so I can't really help on that part My skills in javascript are not that strong.

Originally Posted by Karabaja

Does anyone have who's online working?
I had members showing as in MGC chatbox in vbulletin's wol with previous version. But now they are not anymore. And I am always "the only user connected to the chatbox" when I try wol channel.

The wol is actually not working very well, I have planned to find a way to achieve that in a cleaner and working way for the next versions.

Originally Posted by paldo

whats with the new file today its the same version whats been fixed ?

edit .. i see the templates has been updated by the looks of the date ..

Templates updated ? No they haven't, this new file only contains the german file plus and xml file for automatic template modifications with the TMS hack of Andreas.

Originally Posted by beduino

hello,
all the mod is fine [better, better and better ]
the users of vb-brasil choose this hack of chat !
But...
How integrate with vbadvanced 3.01?

I make all - changing the 'arcade' do adv_index and don't work ... Any suggestions?
[in vblinks - script=adv_links] don't work too...

But thanks for your finest code and support

Beduino

You have carefully followed all the steps described in the readme (with the modification of arcade to adv_index) ?

This should work. You can also try to add mgc_chatbox in the globalize var field of the vbadvanced settings.

[dirty68]

Originally Posted by VBDev

When you double click on that error, what does ie says ?

....

[VBDev]

Hum, I have made a little search on the web and seems like I could have figured out what's going wrong.

In the 1.4 version, I have put full urls in the javascript files by using the $vbulletin->options[bburl] variable.

However in javascript, it's forbidden for a code sample to call an external url from a different domain.

So I suppose this might be what's going wrong, do you have a bburl variable corresponding to the real domain url ?

[itzxmikee]

how do you make the chat window narrower? Currently the chat window is too wide for my site. Thanks

[VBDev]

Here is one of my previous posts which should help you

Originally Posted by VBDev

How you could achieve that :

• Reduce the size of the input box (option in the acp)
• Disable some bbcode (option in the acp) for the chatbox

This will allow you to reduce it's width.

[dirty68]

Originally Posted by VBDev

So I suppose this might be what's going wrong, do you have a bburl variable corresponding to the real domain url ?

??? sorry Dev still new to all this i dont understand this bit

[VBDev]

Does the url of your website corresponds to the one of your domain or do you have a kind of address translation ?

I mean dirtysplace.com is the real url or just a redirecting one ?

[beduino]

hello

You have carefully followed all the steps described in the readme (with the modification of arcade to adv_index) ?

This should work. You can also try to add mgc_chatbox in the globalize var field of the vbadvanced settings.

I did it. 3 times, but no results.
If I send mgc_chatbox.php to /modules and change the type of module [template -> php module] is possible to work?
tks
beduino
ps. the adv_portal_mgc_chatbox template contains only $mgc_chatbox... right?