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

[creppello]

Originally Posted by mp3u

Thanks for this, how to I change the .js file though? I can't seem to open it - do I need to download a program to create/tweak .js files? Dumb question I know... please help!

I use one called Free Javascrpit Editor, and it works very well, as it colors different lines of code that do different things.

[danyz81]

Originally Posted by Sador

This.

If your main language is Italian and you want the English patch, use language manager to overwrite your Italian language with the patch. (it sh?uldn't have any effect on anything other than this mod, but I haven't tested it, so it's at your own risk)

If you want an Italian translation for this mod, I think you'll have to make one yourself.

Hope this helps.

Yep thanks
i will do so

[prabhgrewal]

Originally Posted by Sador

This.

If your main language is Italian and you want the English patch, use language manager to overwrite your Italian language with the patch. (it sh?uldn't have any effect on anything other than this mod, but I haven't tested it, so it's at your own risk)

If you want an Italian translation for this mod, I think you'll have to make one yourself.

Hope this helps.

Maybe iam doing something wrong but iam getting all french under Admin CP even though i installed the English Language patch...

[Cplkaos]

Originally Posted by Cplkaos

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.2:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT autocomplete,js_file,phpcode_chatbox_display,userg roupids,userids FROM mgc_cb_evo_command WHERE active='1';

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'autocomplete' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Monday, October 5th 2009 @ 07:39:53 PM
Error Date : Monday, October 5th 2009 @ 07:39:53 PM
Script : http://www.**************.co.uk/forum/
Referrer :
IP Address : 92.***.***.108
Username : The Grinch
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.85-community


Can anyone help please?????

This is stopping me getting into the forum and indeed Vbulletin

Anyone please........... Pretty please.

[Sador]

Originally Posted by prabhgrewal

Maybe iam doing something wrong but iam getting all french under Admin CP even though i installed the English Language patch...

You need to refresh after. Or log out and log in again if that doesn't work.

[prabhgrewal]

Originally Posted by Sador

You need to refresh after. Or log out and log in again if that doesn't work.

Done that.. still getting all french

[Sador]

Originally Posted by prabhgrewal

Done that.. still getting all french

In that case you didn't overwrite your language with the English patch I think. Go to language manager, browse to the patch, set 'overwrite language' to the language you're using on your forum, and set 'ignore language version' to yes.

That should do the trick.

[adnedarn]

I'm not sure if my situation has to do with some of you guys... but here is my experience on upgrading from 2.2.1 to 2.4.2.

First off- I want to point out that I have been running this mod since the original versions came out, so I know my way around it pretty well. After doing the 2.2.1 to 2.4.2 upgrade I noticed some pretty major differences in my server load (as I've previously posted about) and my chats really took a LONG time to pop up. For a lot of people, they'd have to refresh, wait that period of up to 11 seconds for the chatbox to populate to see new chats, submit theirs, and refresh again to see new ones. A kind programmer kinda worked with me through some of the stuff to see if he could find any reason this was happening in VBDev's absence and mainly we worked on lessening the load of my settings... Changing refresh times, removing avatars, deleting the second hidden channel that only a few people use, disabling view of the chatbox for unregistered users etc. Initially that seemed to help, but over time it really didn't. I tried going back a version to 2.3.2 which was still a step above what I had, but I didn't know if I could go back to 2.2.1 because of the script I had to run... Well, that didn't help either.

Finally I gave up and figured I'd just delete the whole thing, all files, make sure there were no more tables in the database (had to manually drop 2) and do a fresh install. So I warned the users to take note of their font choices, and anything in archive they may need... and deleted it a few days later. I figured since I had it uninstalled I might as well get the paid version, so I did.
I ended up fresh installing the newest version 2.4.2 and boy let me tell you! It responds super fast, and the load on my server is dramatically decreased (not sure if that is the new version, the fact that it is fresh installed, or just using the settings the other coder suggested) but I just wanted to put it out there as a possible solution for any of you that have been going along doing the upgrades... There just may be something that ends up hanging around and causing some problems or of course it could have been just me

For visual aid I will attach 2 screen shots of my server's CPU usage one is a week view and one is a month view I have marked the graph to show what I did where, and the effect it had specifically on CPU use.

1) upgraded 2.2.1 to 2.4.2
2) programmer helped me change settings to lessen load
6) downgraded to 2.3.2
3) deleted old files, installed new version.. lost internet during settings set up
4) finished setting up shoubox settings, preformed database maintenance (had to run repair/optimize data base a LOT!)
5) rebooted server to get the ram size down from all the work I had been doing on the server the past month

So as you can see, the load is much lower now, and take my word for it-- this thing runs great! So if you're having a similar problem, you may just want to bite the bullet and remove it and do a fresh install you may have the same experience I have. I think we all know sometimes it's best to just delete something and start over.

Good luck and I love this shoutbox

Andrew

[prabhgrewal]

Originally Posted by Sador

In that case you didn't overwrite your language with the English patch I think. Go to language manager, browse to the patch, set 'overwrite language' to the language you're using on your forum, and set 'ignore language version' to yes.

That should do the trick.

I did that before...tried it again refreshed logged out etc etc..but no luck

[mp3u]

Originally Posted by creppello

This worked for me.....



One site I deal with they have set up really goofy, Their forums home page is not their .com page. I had to put files in both the forums directory as well as the publichtml directory, th3en upload the xml files.

That fix above cleared up all my problems though.

I made the changes to the 2 .js files in client scripts but it made no difference, I still have exactly the same problem. Permanently reloading until I hit refresh and security token missing if I try to make a post...