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

[DSMStyle]

Was there a fix posted for why it just sits and looks to be loading upon install? I've installed this on 3.8.2 and I can see it, but can not post anything, just sits and loads.

[Elric]

The newest version is loading and loading and..

Please help me, vb3.7.6

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by yotsume

Is there a way to get the chatbox to show on the vbBlog pages?

THANKS!

Look at the blog php file and have a look at the THIS_PAGE define.

If you only want to show the chatbox on this other page of the forum, you have to put the parameter of this definition and put it in the option in the acp and then activate the show chatbox on defined pages below the navbar.

Originally Posted by kronnos

Can you please point me to the right template and what phrase to look for, i just can't seem to find anything;(

NM, i found it

lol ok

Originally Posted by Abrupt

I uninstalled this and the options to change permissions are still in user group permissions so it gives me an sql now when I try to update permissions because I uninstalled it and the sql database does not exist. How do I remove these options from user group permissions?

You have not folowed uninstall instructions correctly ... You have to remove files and then remove the product...

To fix this remove the chatbox files, especially in the includes/xml directory.

Originally Posted by doogie88

Sorry, I mean regarding the phrase "chats" and changing it to soemthing else. You said you just have to change the phrase. But I can't find it anywhere.

Yes this is what I said I told you in my message what the phrase is

Originally Posted by kronnos

The input field is white and the text field is almost black. This makes it impossible to pick the right color that can nicely be seen in the input field and in the chatbox itself. I see a new feature was added "Option to disable wysiwyg in input field", so this should be very helpfull in the new release.

Originally Posted by kronnos

Everything is great before choosing a color. The input is black and the color is the same as the text color used elsewhere on the forum. But as soon as color is changes, it changes both in editor and chatbox. Going back to default does not correct this to the actuall default it was before. In the usergroup default colors, i can't chose the color that is default for my forum because its nto on the list. So can there be a place where you manually enter the color number?

In the last version it does correct to the default usergroup color, you are using it ?

Adding a color is currently only feasible by editing the functions_mgc_cb_evo.php file, I might consider putting the list in an option in the next version.

Originally Posted by kronnos

Would it be possible to be able to chose which colors will be included in the dropdown for the users to be able to pick out of? Since preomlem one will be fixed in the next update, This way, I could enter all light colors only to be used on the dark background and the input field can stay black color.

Well the list as option stated in previous sentence would allow it

Originally Posted by kronnos

Also noticed that hwne turning of the bbcode menu, smilies do not show anymore.

Ah you mean they aren't parsed anymore while still shown in the menu line ?

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by DSMStyle

Was there a fix posted for why it just sits and looks to be loading upon install? I've installed this on 3.8.2 and I can see it, but can not post anything, just sits and loads.

Originally Posted by Elric

The newest version is loading and loading and..

Please help me, vb3.7.6

Generally people having this issue either had problems while uploading files or installed it wrongly.

What have you done ?

[kronnos]

In the last version it does correct to the default usergroup color, you are using it ?

Yes that is corrected but the color I want is not on the list of colors. And the forum default color used for forums is the one I would want. So before users change the color, the true default color is the color used on all posts. So maybe is the usergroup, maybe the list of colors or if there is a manual color picker, should include an option that the default usergroup color can be the default color used for the posts/forums.

Adding a color is currently only feasible by editing the functions_mgc_cb_evo.php file, I might consider putting the list in an option in the next version.

I would do it by manually editing but it would be hell keeping up with the upgrades and making the same changes all the time.

Ah you mean they aren't parsed anymore while still shown in the menu line ?

Yep. When turning off the entire BBcodes menu, the smilies from the smiley menu no longer parse. Maybe its just the way it is or maybe some dis configuration on my part.

[Elric]

so, now the box is okay but there is no bbcode and smiley button (in the acp ist on) and in the forum on IE8 ist the box loading and loading but in the vbcmps its working..

[kronnos]

Here is another bug noticed at my end:

In the notifications manager i have "Number of notifications to display in the chatbox" set to 20.
In the Chat management I put to "Number of chats in the chatbox" set to "X".

Here is what it does for me:
In the notifications box, it will show the correct number of notifications(at first). But in the last number of chats what it did was subtract the number i last chats to displaye set by me from the number of notifications. So I put in display last 20 notifications and put display last 21 chats. It would only display me one last chat and 20 notifications.

I tested the with number of notifications set to 20 and kept changing the number of displayed last chats.

number of chats set to display/ number of chats showed
30-28/7 and 23 last posts/threads
27-26/6
25-23/5
22/4
21/3
20/2 and 18 in last posts/thread
19/1
18/0

Also, more strange things:

When i set to display last chats to 100 and set the number of notifications to 20

it showed me last 30 chats and about 70 notifications....

[kronnos]

Another issue that needs correction is that if user who is able to see the archives and not a special channel , he can still enter if he knows the channel ID by entering it into the url.

So have to remove Archive for all members as well.

[nascartr]

Originally Posted by kronnos

Here is another bug noticed at my end:

In the notifications manager i have "Number of notifications to display in the chatbox" set to 20.
In the Chat management I put to "Number of chats in the chatbox" set to "X".

Here is what it does for me:
In the notifications box, it will show the correct number of notifications(at first). But in the last number of chats what it did was subtract the number i last chats to displaye set by me from the number of notifications. So I put in display last 20 notifications and put display last 21 chats. It would only display me one last chat and 20 notifications.

I tested the with number of notifications set to 20 and kept changing the number of displayed last chats.

number of chats set to display/ number of chats showed
30-28/7 and 23 last posts/threads
27-26/6
25-23/5
22/4
21/3
20/2 and 18 in last posts/thread
19/1
18/0

Also, more strange things:

When i set to display last chats to 100 and set the number of notifications to 20

it showed me last 30 chats and about 70 notifications....

You need to set the very first option in the 'Notifications' area
Separate SQL query for the notifications to Yes.

By default it is set to No and will only show the set amount of notifications you have set as chats and topics meaning if you set it at 20 then 20 total chats and/or threads total will be shown.

Setting it to have seperate queries will split the two and show exactly how many you have set it to show each.

[DSMStyle]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Generally people having this issue either had problems while uploading files or installed it wrongly.

What have you done ?

I followed the directions for an install with no chat import. Files uploaded, produced uploaded, lang file uploaded, viewing permissions set, ect ect, by the instructions given it isn't rocket science, or at least shouldn't of been. I'll try to redo the install today, but can't imagine doing the same thing over fixing anything.