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MGC Chatbox Evo
Version: 3.4.0, by VBDev VBDev is offline
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Category: Chat Modifications - Version: 4.2.x Rating:
Released: 01-27-2008 Last Update: 09-01-2013 Installs: 2476
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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:
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

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File Type: zip [FREE]MGC_Chatbox_Evo_3.4.0.zip (1.70 MB, 3001 views)

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There have been reports on problems with utf-8 in this thread, but those seem to be fixed. Unfortunately utf-8 is not working for me. When I switch the language to utf-8, the shoutbox won' t be displayed in IE7. It works fine in FF3.

In IE7 you are able to view the archive, but small and full-size shoutbox won' t be loaded.
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chatbox timeout is no longer working after i upgraded to 1.1.0. also some of the new database tables weren't created during the upgrade so I had to do them manually. Is the timeout also related to a missing database table?
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This time add the save/restore/backup feature
After some thoughts and discussions, I am not sure this is really needed.

What would be the need for such feature as soon as the backward compatibility is in the chatbox ?
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i have a minor problem, it seems that the chatbox is being inserted below my thread list description and above the thread list itself. ideally, id like the thread list description to be below the chatbox (and just above the thread list). yet i can't seem to find where in my template code the chatbox is being inserted. can anyone help me with this? look here to see an example:

http://squattheplanet.com/forumdisplay.php?f=99

note that the forum sections' description is above the chatbox, instead of being down by the "new thread" button over the list of topics.

any help would be much appreciated!
To achieve this I think you have to follow the style issue how to in the chatbox readme even if you don't really have a style issue but more a chatbox placement concern

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Whereabouts is the "Help file" for the chatbox?

At the moment I'm seeing a mixture of English and French wording... here's an example.



Is there a way to put it just to the one language of our chosing? Or can we edit that? Cheers
It's no help file. Have you imported the english language file ?

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There have been reports on problems with utf-8 in this thread, but those seem to be fixed. Unfortunately utf-8 is not working for me. When I switch the language to utf-8, the shoutbox won' t be displayed in IE7. It works fine in FF3.

In IE7 you are able to view the archive, but small and full-size shoutbox won' t be loaded.
Do you have the template name in HTML comments option activated in your vBulletin forums setup ?

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chatbox timeout is no longer working after i upgraded to 1.1.0. also some of the new database tables weren't created during the upgrade so I had to do them manually. Is the timeout also related to a missing database table?
Hum you mean the inactive function ? I have tested it recently and it does (on the current up-to-be-released version).
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Do you have the template name in HTML comments option activated in your vBulletin forums setup ?
Sorry, whch setting do you mean?
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Sorry, whch setting do you mean?
A setting of vB, you can find it by searching within your browser
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I am having issues with my 2 other channels, this only happens when i sticky a chat in gen channel, it seems to stop the other channels working and no chats are displayed, i turned off the sticky feature in user groups and removed the stuck chat all working fine now, any cure for this?
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A setting of vB, you can find it by searching within your browser
I cannot find the setting. I have searched for html and for comments, but such an option does not exist in default vb options. Can you please give further information?
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I cannot find the setting. I have searched for html and for comments, but such an option does not exist in default vb options. Can you please give further information?
In your AdminCP

vBulletin Options > General Settings > Add Template Name in HTML Comments

Is this set to Yes or No
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The "Add Template Name in HTML Comments" is set to no. I have turned it on, but then the shoutbox will even be empty on iso encoding. Therefore I turned it off again.
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