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

[Angel-Wings]

Hmm - related to the smiley retrival problem - dunno but it works fine until I set up more than 1 category - then both categories get mixed.

Modifying the mgc_cb_evo.php file and the SQL statement:

$getsmilies = $vbulletin->db->query_read ("SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "smilie ORDER BY displayorder ASC");

$getsmilies = $vbulletin->db->query_read ("SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "smilie ORDER BY imagecategoryid, displayorder ASC");

Would display the smilies, sorted by category. Still sorting the categories like set, dunno - seems there's an additional query needed to read from the "imagecategory" table the imagetype and the ID's

[VBDev]

I think I already modified the sql query some time ago so that it takes into account the category.

I will have a look.

By the way, Next version will embed importers from most of the chatbox mods that exists

[thedark1]

How have you upgraded from 0.4 to 1.1.0 ??

uninstalled, then re-installed (just like a fresh install). I noticed though that some database tables were not created .... even tried to uninstall then install again 1.1.0 ... same problem, so finally i just had to create them manually. I still think this is very weird though, and i noticed that a couple of other people had similar issues.

If you have the time i can pm you my board cp to have a look around.

thanks

update: ok now this is really weird .... i just installed xcache, edited config.php so that the datastore would also use xcache, and now the inactive function works again .... i don't get it, this is really strange ...

[damienlyter]

I'm not able to use Chanel images not sure why it's not displaying it as I did what was described in the admin CP I see in firefox the word that I typed for the name of the channel in IE i see a box with a red X can you please tell me what to do to correct this issue?

[lostguy]

This work with Vb3.7.4 ?

[Greenskull]

I've been trying forever to get it to work in Arcade and it just won't show. I've done everything I was told. What could be wrong.

[jerx]

Originally Posted by lostguy

This work with Vb3.7.4 ?

I used it on vb 3.7.3 and now using it on vb 3.8 rc1 without any problem.

Originally Posted by Greenskull

I've been trying forever to get it to work in Arcade and it just won't show. I've done everything I was told. What could be wrong.

I don' t think vbdev is a psychic. You should post what "everything" means. I think you had problems displaying it on vbadvanced, are those solved?

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by thedark1

uninstalled, then re-installed (just like a fresh install). I noticed though that some database tables were not created .... even tried to uninstall then install again 1.1.0 ... same problem, so finally i just had to create them manually. I still think this is very weird though, and i noticed that a couple of other people had similar issues.

If you have the time i can pm you my board cp to have a look around.

thanks

update: ok now this is really weird .... i just installed xcache, edited config.php so that the datastore would also use xcache, and now the inactive function works again .... i don't get it, this is really strange ...

Yes clearly ! Perhaps it was a cache problem and installing the new version fixed that

Originally Posted by jerx

I don' t think vbdev is a psychic. You should post what "everything" means. I think you had problems displaying it on vbadvanced, are those solved?

Lol yes I am clearly not a psychic !

[RedDevil]

I updated shoutbox to 1.1.0 and i have same arcade problem wouldnt work no matter what i tried, I have downgraded again to 1.0.0 and all is working fine arcade included, is there a known fix for this yet?

Running 3.7.4 VB

[Deimos]

I'm running the latest version of VB, have installed the latest version of this chatbox and several things don't work properly.

When I click on the manage commands link, there's 7 entries, but they're all blank
If I try to edit them, I get a missing table error
I added the table manually, but it still doesn't show anything, I assume because the table is empty

Clicking manage channels brings up

Invalid SQL:

SELECT ch.*,co.syntax,co.title AS cotitle
FROM mgc_cb_evo_channel AS ch
LEFT JOIN mgc_cb_evo_command AS co ON (ch.cid=co.cid)
ORDER BY chanorder ASC;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'co.syntax' in 'field list'

I had an issue whereby a stickied chat message dissapeared, so I Wanted to find out who'd deleted it, but, the "View logs" page brings up a blank page and the log table is empty.