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

[elmati]

Ok, sometimes i have problems with refresh...
sometimes the chatbox crash and dont refresh anymore...

see this is generated by bugzilla:
Attachment 69217

if anyone knows how to fix tell me
thx in advance!

[Ohiosweetheart]

Originally Posted by da-chief

Hey All,
If you read way back you would know that VBDEV had a family emergency but also had a planned 2 week Vacation the last 2 weeks of August and into Sept.

He wrote about it back a few pages.. ;-)

As for pruning your posts you can do it if your using 1.4.
To prune them all..
use the command:
/del all

If you want to be able to do one at a time you have to go into
Admin-->MGC Chatbox-->Shouts display-->Display Delete Cross in Chatbox

Hope that helps.
Darrell

Originally Posted by Sofia

Hi pegguy

Yes, you're right, the command /prune doesn't work because it's the command /dell all to prune all messages of the chatbox

ahha! Thanks you two. I just assumed that it would be /prune since that's what the other chatboxes use.

Thank you!

[andrewtr89]

Hmm, very nice mod. I seem to be having a problem with it though.

I think others have had this problem but I dont know if it was ever solved. When the shoutbox is viewed as a guest, it will say after 4 seconds that the user has been inactive, etc, etc, even though I have it set that it does not show that until after 5 minutes. It only happens to guests (on FF, and IE) so I dont know what the problem is. Also today my host contacted me about the shoutbox taking up way to much CPU Usage/Server Load...it seems like it is slowing the entire page down. I already had the stats option and team chat warn disabled to help on the server load. The last thing I can think of is making sure inactive counter works but I cannot use it if guests are counted as inactive after 4 seconds....Please help.

[aggiefan]

can this be used to replace something like flashchat? ive been looking for a replcement for a while but never have found something that will work. namely a more "standalone" version of this script where you have to enter a separate page to chat. ie this w/o being able to access from the forums and force people to go to a "chatroom" page where its the full version.

[maidos]

ok it seems the loading is fine ... when i enter www it works just fine but without www. i onlysee loading

[Injektilo]

Originally Posted by Injektilo

I have this problem... I've doubled checked all the edits and everything and still i have this problem... The chatbox is being displayed but inside the chatbox it shows my website again, instead of the actual shouts...

what am i doing wrong here?

the same problem again!

[adnedarn]

I believe I found the CAUSE of the dissapearing chat box.. It happened to my admin account and I don't want to change the config.php file to unprotect my name so I created another admin account.. This name, I can see the chat. All you have to do, is make any change (or no change) in your control panel and bam, it's gone. I deleted and recreated the new name and the chat is there. I went into my CP options, changed nothing, clicked save and the chat is gone. This is with version 1.3. Maybe that information will help fix the problem Untill then.. Hope no one changes their CP options. Did you others that have experienced this happen to change something in your CP?

-Andrew


EDIT!

You can restore the accounts by uninstalling the 2 products that come with this, and reinstalling them. You will need to restore usergroup permissions though. and you will lose your logs and such.

[theOZer]

Running V3.6.8, MGC Chatbox V1.2 (tried V1.4 but it was too unstable), using browser IE6 & IE7.
Read thru all 90 pages of posts, didn't see anything about this problem:

At 1024x768 resolution the chatbox box extends to the right side, off screen. You have to pan over to the right to see the BBcode, Smilies, Help buttons, and to read long chat lines. At 1280x1024 Chatbox displays just fine.

P.S. Other than that, Chatbox Rules! An occasional refresh twirly hangup, but, hey, this is a great hack; gets people on my forum more involved, makes the forum more intimate.

POSTSCRIPT - Sept 1, 2007
It was a self-inflicted wound!
If you go past 75 for the "Width of the field input" it causes the chatbox to start over extending to the right.

[Kelmar]

Dev, hope your hols are going well and you're all rested.

I'll pop back after the 2nd to see if you've got ver.1.5 done.

Kelly

[Traxdata]

wonderful hack! but there is something wrong in my usercp options after installing:




anyone?