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

[Skyrider]

If I may ask.. How do I unban or unignore people? I once banned myself and I was unable to unban myself.. And I also can't seem to find the unignore command either.

[buckethead]

Originally Posted by butch3r

There's no sense in manual editing phrases, you can change this text via chat formatting options.

And as for "Loading..."
The problem is in some phrases when you edit 'em. Re-upload of original language file can help. (If you have more than one language on your board try 2 switch 2 another language, and you'll see chat working)

From VbDEV's script I receive a message: "You don't have permission to access /forum/mgc_cb_evo_ajax.php"

I tried changing the owner of the file to root with chown command. also tried chmod 777. Still the same message. What the problem may be?

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by FF|Skyrider

If I may ask.. How do I unban or unignore people? I once banned myself and I was unable to unban myself.. And I also can't seem to find the unignore command either.

You have a little button in the chatbox with a ? that explains all the comands syntax.
The unignore command users the same syntax as the ignore command except that's it off instead of on in the syntax. But you can unban users directly for a window if you use the ignored users displaying command.

Originally Posted by buckethead

From VbDEV's script I receive a message: "You don't have permission to access /forum/mgc_cb_evo_ajax.php"

I tried changing the owner of the file to root with chown command. also tried chmod 777. Still the same message. What the problem may be?

You see that because I applied the modification I suggested to ranger187 above to your forum.

This might then come from a configuration of apache leading to such error.

Do you have problems with other ajax functionnalities of vBulletin ?

[buckethead]

Originally Posted by VBDev

You have a little button in the chatbox with a ? that explains all the comands syntax.
The unignore command users the same syntax as the ignore command except that's it off instead of on in the syntax. But you can unban users directly for a window if you use the ignored users displaying command.



You see that because I applied the modification I suggested to ranger187 above to your forum.

This might then come from a configuration of apache leading to such error.

Do you have problems with other ajax functionnalities of vBulletin ?

No. Vbulletin AJAX functionalities are working properly. Maybe it is Apache security issues that are not letting me access those files? How do you suggest me to tweak those?

[Ranger187]

I don't run apache. I'll try it on the Windows server now with the forum that has issues.

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by butch3r

And as for "Loading..."
The problem is in some phrases when you edit 'em. Re-upload of original language file can help. (If you have more than one language on your board try 2 switch 2 another language, and you'll see chat working)

Incorrect. I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with the languages at all.

Originally Posted by VBDev

Ok as you experience that problem on some of the board where you installed the chatbox, can you try the following (it's a temp modification to find out the problem).

Replace the content of the chatbox_refresh function in the mgc_cb_evo.js file by :

function chatbox_refresh(type)

{

    var handleSuccess = function(o){

        if(o.responseText !== undefined){

            fetch_object('chats').innerHTML = o.responseText;

        }

    }

    var handleFailure = function(o){

        if(o.responseText !== undefined){

            fetch_object('chats').innerHTML = o.responseText;

        }

    }

    var callback =

    {

          success: handleSuccess,

          failure: handleFailure

    };



   /* Reset inactive mode */

   if (chatbox_inactive)

   {

      chatbox_inactive = 0;

      idleTimeout = setTimeout("activate_idle_chatbox()", inactive_mode_delay);   

   }

   

    /* Forced refreshed, lets do it */

    if(auto_refresh || (type == 'forced'))

   {

      clearTimeout(refreshTimeout);            

        /* Type of refresh management */

        if (type == 'forced')

      {

            currentRefreshType = 'forced';

        }

      else

      {

            currentRefreshType = 'normal';

        }

        fetch_object('mgc_cb_evo_refresh_img').style.visibility = 'visible';

        

        /* Chatbox is inactive, refresh forced => session update */

        if (chatbox_inactive || force_session_refresh)

        {

            var sUrl = mgc_cb_evo_jsloc + 'mgc_cb_evo_ajax.php';

            var postData = 'do=ajax_refresh_chat&status=open&channel_id=' + channel_id + '&location=' + cb_location + '&first_load=1&securitytoken=' + SECURITYTOKEN;



            YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest('POST', sUrl, callback, postData);      

      }

      else

      {

            var sUrl = mgc_cb_evo_jsloc + 'mgc_cb_evo_ajax.php';

            var postData = 'do=ajax_refresh_chat&status=open&channel_id=' + channel_id + '&location=' + cb_location + '&first_load=' + first_load + '&securitytoken=' + SECURITYTOKEN;



            YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest('POST', sUrl, callback, postData);                

      }

      force_session_refresh = 0;

    }

   return false;

}

It shall put inside the chatbox an error message which will help us find out the silly problem.

I did that, it just keeps refreshing. Any other ideas? If you want, PM me any files you want me to place.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by buckethead

No. Vbulletin AJAX functionalities are working properly. Maybe it is Apache security issues that are not letting me access those files? How do you suggest me to tweak those?

That's odd that your files doesn't have the permissions while other vBulletin features has.

Permissions and owners for the mgc_cb_evo_ajax.php file and the ajax.php file of vBulletin are identical ?

Originally Posted by Ranger187

Incorrect. I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with the languages at all.

Me too

Originally Posted by Ranger187

I did that, it just keeps refreshing. Any other ideas? If you want, PM me any files you want me to place.

It should have displayed an error message in the chatbox itself no ?

Any error in firefox error console ?

Do you have an url with full access so that I can see ?

[Ranger187]

Oh...hmm..I did with FF3. I'll try IE8 now. If no worky, I'll give you a temp admin account to forum.

[Ranger187]

PM coming.

[Ranger187]

Warning: Error in parsing value for property 'display'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://removed/index.php?
Line: 0

Error: SECURITYTOKEN is not defined
Source File: http://removed/clientscript/mgc_cb_evo.js
Line: 313