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

[Dustin_a31]

One thing I would like to see that I don't/can't find is a jump to message function in the archives. If this is already a feature can someone point me to it?

Else: This would be helpful to jump to an entire transcript of the complete back and forth between members to sort out any conflicts. We can find posts fine but we don't see the other sides of stories or the full conversation. Right now I can't do this and could edit the archive chat, or remove it. thats about it. I dunno maybe its not obvious to me where it is.

[Sador]

Originally Posted by Dustin_a31

One thing I would like to see that I don't/can't find is a jump to message function in the archives. If this is already a feature can someone point me to it?

Else: This would be helpful to jump to an entire transcript of the complete back and forth between members to sort out any conflicts. We can find posts fine but we don't see the other sides of stories or the full conversation. Right now I can't do this and could edit the archive chat, or remove it. thats about it. I dunno maybe its not obvious to me where it is.

Don't know if it's helpful, but you might have more success if you download the logs from the archive page? That way it should be more organized, I think. Haven't tested it myself, so I might be totally wrong.

Private messages don't seem to be logged at all, which is great from privacy perspective, but can make it quite hard to do anything about people that abuse the private chat for things they really shouldn't. Like what Dustin said, you can't check what happened and who exactly did what.

Oh and at the rest: I have vBulletin 3.8.4. and version 2.4.2 of this chatscript, and it all works fine. I have had no problems whatsoever up till now, both with installing and using it. (besides the private chat tab, that is) I have no idea why it doesn't work at your sites, but at least it shows it can work as well.

[itswiz]

Quick question, maybe someone had this happen and knows how to fixes it.. Once I upgrade chat, certain members have told me chat doesn't work now. It shows uploading for some while others have no problem. Yes they refresh.

[Sador]

Originally Posted by itswiz

Quick question, maybe someone had this happen and knows how to fixes it.. Once I upgrade chat, certain members have told me chat doesn't work now. It shows uploading for some while others have no problem. Yes they refresh.

With these kind of things there are about 4 common options.

- The chat has errors (not likely, because you said some users can use the chat just fine)
- Some kind of permission problem. (not likely here, see previous)
- A problem with that users settings, browser etc. Maybe his current browser can't handle AJAX, for example, or has some other issues.
- A problem with that users internet. The chat seems to take some time to load even at fast connections, I can imagine it failing to load entirely if the internet connection just is too slow. No idea if it does, but it could be.

The easiest way to check is ask for someones password, so you can login and see if it works for you. If it is, there must be some kind of problem with that users computer / internet.

Hope this helps you a bit.

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by Dustin_a31

One thing I would like to see that I don't/can't find is a jump to message function in the archives. If this is already a feature can someone point me to it?

Else: This would be helpful to jump to an entire transcript of the complete back and forth between members to sort out any conflicts. We can find posts fine but we don't see the other sides of stories or the full conversation. Right now I can't do this and could edit the archive chat, or remove it. thats about it. I dunno maybe its not obvious to me where it is.

Yes. It's called search.

[TeknoSounds]

Ranger, since yer the man with all the infoz...

Trying to get this on my vBA, not using the module tho. It shows up and all, but I can't get it to get off Loading... and the OK button doesn't go to the right location. My vB is in a seperate folder from the site route. Running vb 3.8.2 and mgc 2.4.2

So I'm trying to find the locations in files where its pointing to just /mgc_cb_evo.php but I'm not having much luck. Have scoured the posts but nothing I change seems to have any effect.

[itswiz]

Originally Posted by Sador

With these kind of things there are about 4 common options.

- The chat has errors (not likely, because you said some users can use the chat just fine)
- Some kind of permission problem. (not likely here, see previous)
- A problem with that users settings, browser etc. Maybe his current browser can't handle AJAX, for example, or has some other issues.
- A problem with that users internet. The chat seems to take some time to load even at fast connections, I can imagine it failing to load entirely if the internet connection just is too slow. No idea if it does, but it could be.

The easiest way to check is ask for someones password, so you can login and see if it works for you. If it is, there must be some kind of problem with that users computer / internet.

Hope this helps you a bit.

Thanks will check into it.

[Saviour]

Well...I think I may have run into a bug and am requesting a fix, please...

After upgrading from 2.4.1 to 2.4.2...I get the following error when the bot replies to a query: See attached image

Looks like there may be a coding error...or something went wrong with the upgrade.

Is there a fix for this?

[Saviour]

Found out if I disable the NEW "@username" icon, I don't have the above issue.

So...any suggestions?

[scott81603]

Originally Posted by Ranger187

Error console, paste the errors when you view with FF.

OK Ranger. I found a lot of errors.... See attached image

How do I go about fixing it?