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MGC Chatbox (with AJAX) · **Released**: 05-29-2007

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 :

French
English
Arabic [Translator : alessai]
German [Translator : captainslater]
Vietnamese [Translator : Anhyeu12000]
Turkish [Translator : neutralizer and bocek]
Spanish [Translator : obmob] [TO BE UPDATED FOR 1.5]

To be available [Translation in progress] :

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

VBDev · #**2122** 01-14-2008, 05:42 AM

MGC Chatbox Evolution (v2.0) Development status

As I promised, here is the new development status update.

I have been pretty busy since the beginning of the year at work and haven't been able to do a lot of work on the chatbox but it's going on its way and there is now very few things to finish before it's ready for beta release.

I know this is quite long for all of you but I want to bring you a very very good version of the product so it takes the time

So far, all commands have been ported back to the new command system and the list of remaining tasks has drastically diminished, most of them are already existing features that need to be rewritten for the new code structure.

I have also changed the way ajax is handled in order to enhance compatibility with non-english languages with specific characters. It's now handled in the way the Jelsoft team handles it in vBulletin.

Many tweaks have been added too but you will discover them upon release.

Following is the list of remaining tasks :

Re-adding the possibility to show the chatbox on forumhome, forumdisplay, showthread and all pages features (for the moment it works only on full page mode but this is not a big deal, just few plugins to get back to the new version) [OK]
Archives w. download archive feature (The archive page will be remodeled as actually it's a bit too big with all messages split alone in their boxes [OK]
Inactive mode [OK]
Creating a session tracking for the chatbox or tweaking the vBulletin one in order to be able to get a working version of the who's in the chatbox [OK]
Maximum number of posts per day to access the chatbox (dynamic 24H)
Separate timestamp for archives and chatbox [OK]
Forumids where to show the chatbox in case of display on the forumdisplay or showthread pages [OK]
Default text color for usergroups [OK]
Shouts search system (Perhaps not sure it will be in the upcoming version)
Work with stangger5 on the little tweak that could help for the vbadvanced mod

And the most important thing will be to make an importer from the old version to new one as I have renamed all chatbox tables to new names due to the major changes in the code structure. The importer will only get back old chats to the new version leaving you the configuration of the chatbox to achieve

I think I'll release a beta before developping an importer, which I hope will be in 2 weeks (I will not be able to code during the weekend this week so won't be able to work a lot on it).

theoz1 · #**2123** 01-15-2008, 03:52 AM

Dont know if this is possible, but I am making a home page for my forums that is not part of vbulletin. Just using microsoft frontpage. Is there a way to put this on it even though it does not involve vbulletin?

thx.

VBDev · #**2124** 01-15-2008, 05:06 PM

No sorry this is not possible.

gunitman247 · #**2125** 01-16-2008, 12:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by VBDev

About the stats, where have you put the $cb_stats code ?

Is chatbox meant to be shown on forumhome on your forum ?

About the pm command which syntax have you used ?

PHP Code:


			
$stylevar[htmldoctype]

<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">

<head>

    <!-- no cache headers -->

    <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />

    <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />

    <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />

    <!-- end no cache headers -->

    $headinclude

    <title><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_powered_by_vbulletin]</phrase></title>

</head>

<body>

$header

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

  <tr valign="top">

    <td class="content">

$navbar

<if condition="$show['guest']">

<!-- guest welcome message -->

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

<tr>

    <td class="tcat"><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[welcome_to_the_x]</phrase></td>

</tr>

<tr>

    <td class="alt1">

        <phrase 1="faq.php$session[sessionurl_q]" 2="register.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[first_visit_message]</phrase>

    </td>

</tr>

</table>

<!-- / guest welcome message -->

<br />

</if>



<!-- main -->



$forumbits

$forumhome_markread_script

<!-- /main -->

<center>

<ad what="zone:4" />

<br>

<div class="advertisementtext"><a href="http://globalsigalliance.com/index.php?pageid=advertising">Advertise your site with GSA</a></div>

</div>

</center>

<br />

<!-- what's going on box -->

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

<thead>

    <tr>

        <td class="tcat" colspan="2">$vbphrase[whats_going_on]</td>

    </tr>

</thead>

<if condition="$show['loggedinusers']">

<!-- logged-in users -->

<tbody>

    <tr>

        <td class="thead" colspan="2">

            <a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_activeusers')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_activeusers" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_activeusers].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>

            <a href="online.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[currently_active_users]</a>: $totalonline (<phrase 1="$numberregistered" 2="$numberguest">$vbphrase[x_members_and_y_guests]</phrase>)

        </td>

    </tr>

</tbody>



<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_activeusers" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_activeusers]">

    <tr>

        <td class="alt2" align="center"><a href="online.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/whos_online.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_whos_online]" border="0" /></a></td>

        <td class="alt1" width="100%">

            <div class="smallfont">

                <div style="white-space: nowrap"><phrase 1="$recordusers" 2="$recorddate" 3="$recordtime">$vbphrase[most_users_ever_online_was_x_y_at_z]</phrase></div>

                <div>$activeusers</div>

            </div>

        </td>

    </tr>

<tr><td class="alt2" align="center" colspan="2" >$vbphrase[group_legend]</td></tr>

</tbody>

<!-- end logged-in users -->

</if>

<tbody>

    <tr>

        <td class="thead" colspan="2">

            <a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_stats')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_stats" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_stats].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>

            <phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_statistics]</phrase>

        </td>

    </tr>

</tbody>

<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_stats" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_stats]">

    <tr>

        <td class="alt2" align="center"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/stats.gif" alt="<phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_statistics]</phrase>" border="0" /></td>

        <td class="alt1" width="100%">

        <div class="smallfont">

            <div>

                $vbphrase[threads]: $totalthreads,

                $vbphrase[posts]: $totalposts,

                $vbphrase[members]: $numbermembers<if condition="$show['activemembers']">,

                    <span title="<phrase 1="$vboptions[activememberdays]">$vbphrase[within_the_last_x_days]</phrase>">$vbphrase[active_members]: $activemembers</span>

                </if>

            </div>

            <div><phrase 1="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$newuserid" 2="$newusername">$vbphrase[welcome_to_our_newest_member_x]</phrase></div>

        </div>



        </td>

    </tr>

</tbody>

$cb_stats

<if condition="$show['birthdays']">

<!-- today's birthdays -->

<tbody>

    <tr>

        <td class="thead" colspan="2">

            <a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_birthdays')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_birthdays" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_birthdays].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>

            $vbphrase[todays_birthdays]

        </td>

    </tr>

</tbody>

<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_birthdays" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_birthdays]">

    <tr>

        <td class="alt2" align="center"><a href="calendar.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getday&amp;day=$today&amp;sb=1"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/birthday.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_birthdays]" border="0" /></a></td>

        <td class="alt1" width="100%"><div class="smallfont">$birthdays</div></td>

    </tr>

</tbody>

<!-- end today's birthdays -->

</if>

<if condition="$show['upcomingevents']">

<tbody>

    <tr>

        <td class="thead" colspan="2">

            <a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_events')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_events" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_events].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>

            <if condition="$show['todaysevents']">$vbphrase[todays_events]<else /><phrase 1="$vboptions[showevents]">$vbphrase[upcoming_events_for_the_next_x_days]</phrase></if>

        </td>

    </tr>

</tbody>

<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_events" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_events]">

    <tr>

        <td class="alt2" align="center"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/calendar.gif" alt="$vbphrase[calendar]" border="0" /></a></td>

        <td class="alt1" width="100%"><div class="smallfont">$upcomingevents</div></td>

    </tr>

</tbody>

</if>

<tbody>

    <tr>

        <td class="tfoot" align="center" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>">

            <a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]do=markread" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[mark_forums_read]</a>

            <if condition="$vboptions['forumleaders']">&nbsp; &nbsp;

            <a href="showgroups.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[view_forum_leaders]</a></if>

        </td>

    </tr>

</tbody>

</table>

<br />

<!-- end what's going on box -->



<!-- icons and login code -->

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" border="0" width="100%">

<tr valign="bottom">

    <td align="center">

        <table cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" border="0">

        <tr>

            <td class="alt2"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_new.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_new_posts]" border="0" /></td>

            <td class="alt1">$vbphrase[forum_contains_new_posts]</td>

            <td class="alt2"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_no_new_posts]" border="0" /></td>

            <td class="alt1">$vbphrase[forum_contains_no_new_posts]</td>

<if condition="$vboptions['showlocks']">

            <td class="alt2"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old_lock.gif" alt="$vbphrase[a_closed_forum]" border="0" /></td>

            <td class="alt1">$vbphrase[forum_is_closed_for_posting]</td></if>

        </tr>

        </table>

    </td>

</tr>

</table>

<!-- / icons and login code -->

</td>

    <td class="divider"></td>

    <td class="sidebar">

            <h2>Latest Threads</h2>

            <ul>$latest</ul>

            <div id="links">

                <h2>Text Advertisments</h2>

                <ul>

                    <li><ad what="zone:3" /></li>

                                        <li><ad what="zone:3" /></li>

                    <li><ad what="zone:3" /></li>

                                        <li><ad what="zone:3" /></li>

                    <li><ad what="zone:3" /></li>

                                        <li><ad what="zone:3" /></li>

                    

                </ul>

            </div>



    </td>

  </tr>

</table>

$footer

</body>

</html>

Thats my FORUMHOME Template.

I do not have the CB running on the forumhome but on a separate page. http://www.globalsigalliance.com

VBDev · #**2126** 01-16-2008, 04:50 AM

The only thing that could avoid chatbox stats from being displayed (by looking back into my code) is the options that activates or not the stats on forumhome.

gunitman247 · #**2127** 01-16-2008, 11:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by VBDev

The only thing that could avoid chatbox stats from being displayed (by looking back into my code) is the options that activates or not the stats on forumhome.

Thanks. I think this is vitally important to the success of the chatbox.

GoNz00 · #**2128** 01-16-2008, 12:06 PM

jsut wondering if there is anything i can do to the UK language file to work with UTF-8

if i edit UTF 8 into the language file i cant use inline editing for one

edit, fixed it.

use the uk MCG language file to overwrite the custom UK one, then go into the options for the uk file and change it back to UTF-8 as the upload defaults it, working great again

nicolerork · #**2129** 01-17-2008, 11:48 AM

Is there a way to display the users in the chat within/below the chatbox instead of clicking on the "Who's Online Channel" button?

VBDev · #**2130** 01-17-2008, 12:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nicolerork

Is there a way to display the users in the chat within/below the chatbox instead of clicking on the "Who's Online Channel" button?

If you are confident in php and javascript yes it could be possible to get the whosonline by adding ajax calls to get the whosonline.

This the way it is done when you click on the channel button but you should modify it so that it displays on load under the chatbox.

abe_119 · #**2131** 01-18-2008, 05:43 AM

Have it *installed*. Loving it !!!
Need help with 2 things though.
1. Click on the "archives" (chatbox) -- says no files found - error, but go to "view archives" on navbar, works fine.
2. Same thing when I click "help" button.

Can you tell me where to fix this ?
Thanks

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