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

[Henry187]

Check your User CP > Options to see if you turned it off somehow.

[gforce75]

No, it is not fixed. I had to merge an account to a second one, delete orginal... create orginal, merge back second account to first account. Same exact problem I had with 1.4 and you'll see my post earlier about it. Please QUIT SaYING the user options is the issue. I know what he is refering to. It just randomly disappears and does not come back. When you logon to an account with the same persmissions, you'll see it. Whatever controls the box to be there is flawed somehow.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Bicho??

How can i do to delete these "<" ">" in the chat box?


Anybody could tell me please?


Thanks for this great mod first of all, kind regards.

You have to edit the mgc_chatbox_bit template for that purpose and find all the "<" & ">" to remove them.

Originally Posted by Serenity

i have an issue with this mod. today out of no where the chat box just disappeared. i have searched this thread and saw that others had this issue, but it looked to be fixed. so far i am the only one experiencing this issue. i even tried otehr browsers on my pc and it does not work, but it shows up when i use a different computer.

any ideas?

edit to add:
i logged out of my admin account and used a test account i created and it appears.... it has soething to do with my user account... ???

Does your user account has the good number of posts required for its usergroup ?

Originally Posted by Henry187

Check your User CP > Options to see if you turned it off somehow.

Originally Posted by gforce75

No, it is not fixed. I had to merge an account to a second one, delete orginal... create orginal, merge back second account to first account. Same exact problem I had with 1.4 and you'll see my post earlier about it. Please QUIT SaYING the user options is the issue. I know what he is refering to. It just randomly disappears and does not come back. When you logon to an account with the same persmissions, you'll see it. Whatever controls the box to be there is flawed somehow.

That's really really strange, I don't see how it would work for a user of a usergroup and "magically" stops working for another user.

If we sum up the problem:

• The user has the good number of posts
• The option is not turned off in its acp
• There is no error shown on the user page when the chatbox disapears
• The user is member of a single usergroup no additionnal one

Am I right ?

The only way I could dig into that would be to have access to the acp of a forum where that problem appears and also the pass to the user account that encounter that problem.

Maybe I could do live debug to find out what's going on.

[katilkuzu]

when i try to uninstall this hack i got this error in usergroup edit.

tell me how can i uninstall completly

thank you

Eror:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.8:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE usergroup SET

### UPDATE QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
	`title` = 'Moderator',
	`description` = '',
	`usertitle` = 'Moderator',
	`opentag` = '<font color=\"#009CFF\"><b>',
	`closetag` = '</font></b>',
	`passwordexpires` = '0',
	`passwordhistory` = '0',
	`canpostmedia` = '1',
	`canviewmedia` = '1',
	`nbmsgshowchatbox` = '',
	`mgccustomusergroupperms` = '0',
	`vbarticles` = '2047',
	`ecdownloadpermissions` = '20479',
	`ecexcludecatlist` = '',
	`ecdownloadsmaxuploadtotal` = '-1',
	`ecdownloadsmaxdailydl` = '-1',
	`ecdownloadsmaxdailyfiles` = '-1',
	`ecdownloaddelaygrp` = '-1',
	`vbimghost` = '3',
	`vbimghost_upslots` = '5',
	`vbimghost_files` = '1000',
	`vbjournal` = '7',
	`forumpermissions` = '1048575',
	`genericpermissions` = '205324279',
	`attachlimit` = '0',
	`pmquota` = '500',
	`pmpermissions` = '7',
	`pmsendmax` = '50',
	`calendarpermissions` = '23',
	`wolpermissions` = '5',
	`adminpermissions` = '0',
	`genericoptions` = '15',
	`profilepicmaxwidth` = '150',
	`profilepicmaxheight` = '150',
	`profilepicmaxsize` = '655350',
	`avatarmaxwidth` = '150',
	`avatarmaxheight` = '150',
	`avatarmaxsize` = '200000',
	`signaturepermissions` = '237567',
	`sigpicmaxwidth` = '1000',
	`sigpicmaxheight` = '1000',
	`sigpicmaxsize` = '50000',
	`sigmaxrawchars` = '3000',
	`sigmaxchars` = '3000',
	`sigmaxlines` = '10',
	`sigmaxsizebbcode` = '7',
	`sigmaximages` = '4',
	`vbhotornot` = '3',
	`profileviewpermissions` = '6'
WHERE usergroupid=7;

MySQL Error  : Unknown column 'nbmsgshowchatbox' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date         : Friday, November 9th 2007 @ 03:30:27 AM
Script       : http://www.------.net/forum/admincp/usergroup.php?do=update
Referrer     : http://www.------.net/forum/admincp/usergroup.php?do=edit&usergroupid=7
IP Address   : ------------
Username     : -----------
Classname    : vb_database

[VBDev]

You haven't followed the uninstall steps correctly as you should have removed the chatbox xml files from the includes directory before removing the product.

To correct your problem, you have to activate the debug mode (search on the forum to find out how to activate this mode, it needs an editing of the config.php file) and then select the rebuild bitfields menu item in the vbulletin options menu.

[gforce75]

Hey appecriate the response.

I know where your coming from. It has stumped me. I know codes are very logical. Guess what, his account lost the box again. He told me he has given up. His name is Squall on the forums linked below. Let me know if you want an account. I'll give ya password of a test account and his account to see first hand.

My msn is gforce8102@hotmail and yahoo is gforce8102. Just drop a message

[Serenity]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Does your user account has the good number of posts required for its usergroup ?

That's really really strange, I don't see how it would work for a user of a usergroup and "magically" stops working for another user.

If we sum up the problem:

• The user has the good number of posts
• The option is not turned off in its acp
• There is no error shown on the user page when the chatbox disapears
• The user is member of a single usergroup no additionnal one

Am I right ?

The only way I could dig into that would be to have access to the acp of a forum where that problem appears and also the pass to the user account that encounter that problem.

Maybe I could do live debug to find out what's going on.

yes i have everything set appropriately. i was using it for days, even posted in it multiple times myself. i was surfing vb.org and when i came back to my site it was gone.... i log in as another admin and it is there. should name the box houdini...

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by gforce75

Hey appecriate the response.

I know where your coming from. It has stumped me. I know codes are very logical. Guess what, his account lost the box again. He told me he has given up. His name is Squall on the forums linked below. Let me know if you want an account. I'll give ya password of a test account and his account to see first hand.

My msn is gforce8102@hotmail and yahoo is gforce8102. Just drop a message

I have added you to my msn. Yes what I'll need in first time is his account accesses.

Originally Posted by Serenity

yes i have everything set appropriately. i was using it for days, even posted in it multiple times myself. i was surfing vb.org and when i came back to my site it was gone.... i log in as another admin and it is there. should name the box houdini...

Maybe the investigation with gforce75 will help finding out what this ******* is

Abracadabra as we say in french and the box disapears.

[Taragon]

Originally Posted by VBDev

You have to edit the mgc_chatbox_bit template for that purpose and find all the "<" & ">" to remove them.

I seem to be overlooking these correct values Could you be more exact perhaps?

[gforce75]

i gave him access to my forum. Great support from the author. He'll let me know what's up later