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

[NathanLedet]

I'm on a Mac and this is what the font-color drop down list looks like (Chrome 4.0 and Safari 5.0)

Attachment 120607

It works OK on FireFox.

Someone on a Windows machine said the drop down list looks good on Chrome. Not sure what's happening here

[furst]

ive installed this and all i get is a white page now for my forum, any suggestions? when i disable the product my forum is up and running again.

Any Ideas???

im using vbulletin v4.0.4

[Skyrider]

People on my forum are experiencing a bugged scroll bar issue where it won't fully scroll down when refreshing a page for example. Any idea what's going on?

[BlueAce913]

it doesn't load the icons in chatbox.
What do you mean by "Upload the content of the Images in each of your forum styles directories" ?? i am using the default style in vb4.0 where is this folder?

[GreJan]

Any more than any channel images are shown, although I believe I have loaded in the correct directories.

[exyuteam]

In VB 4.xx if you want to point on specific post, link must be:


http://DOMEN-COM/showthread.php?p=XXXXX#postXXXXX

In Chatbox, we have notification when new post are entered, and if we click on that link, we see that page, and not post itself!

Clement, please correct this in next version....


Thanks in advance!

[exyuteam]

Originally Posted by GreJan

Any more than any channel images are shown, although I believe I have loaded in the correct directories.

You not named your images right, or you not put it in right place. Right click on that broken pic, then properties, and see WHAT your browser cannot find. When you see that URL, we (and you) can see what's wrong.

[GreJan]

Ok, Thank´s.
Now it works.
Sorry for my bad English

[Lifesupporters]

I'm using this on a 3.8.x install and it's working for the most part. There are a few minor issues such as not remembering user preference when it comes to collapsed or open state of smilies, bbcode, etc., but that's not much of a concern.

The one question I do have however is in regards to bot configuration. I know how to use the bot and have it configured to answer specific questions but I don't know how to configure the bot for wildcard questions?

Essentially, the bot will only answer specific questions if they are input exactly as programmed, including punctuation for example:

Question: Is anyone here?
Bot: Yes I'm here, how are you {username}

...however, any changes to the original question will not yield results so for example:

Question: Is Anyone Here?
Bot: No response.

Question: Is Anyone Here
Bot: No response.

Question: anyone here?
Bot: No response.

...

Is there a way to configure the bot to reply to wildcard queries that have a portion of text that matches what's been programed in the ACP?

Thanks.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Karmacode

When i try to delete a message with the command "Supprimer le chat de" doesn't happen nothing I have vb3.8.5 and mgc 2.3.2 with some command translate in italian language.

This happen also with the command " Supprimer tous les chats de"

What i can do to fix it?

Do you get any js error message in your browser console ?

Originally Posted by Silver_2000_)!

when I change that I get

There is a missing classes/ after mgc_cb_evo/.

Originally Posted by cory_booth

I want to add it happens with regular notices too...
As an Admin... I have my normal avatar all over the chat...
But occasionally - the image switches and leave me with a red X

There was a bug and I corrected it in the next version.

Originally Posted by MyCTaK

1. When I deactivate the formatting BBCODE and uncheck all BBCODEs (that will display a picture in chat after afterward) the user chats are not formatted to split lines. There appears slider at bottom and you have to slide to read every long sentences. I want to enable URL BBcode but to hide BBcode button.

Please be a bit more precise.

Originally Posted by MyCTaK

2. When you "Activate the formatting BBCODE" all options are still vizible and seems to work but... if you don't check em all from admincp they didn't work. I mean that if they are disabled they must not be vizible (or be muted), right?

Please put a screenshot of the option you are talking and what happens coz I don't get you.

Originally Posted by MyCTaK

3. I want to hide "help" and "Archives" :/ (or they can be visible only for moderators)

Edit the templates.

Originally Posted by MyCTaK

4. If you pm to someone and have avatars enabled it displays his avatar (instead of yours) and if he pm you back it shows his avatar again.

It's a reported bug, fixed in the next version.

Originally Posted by MyCTaK

5. I am using dark style with white font and all your popups are light background. I cant read what popup ask me. How I can change that fast, so I don't have to wait for product update?

You meant the error popups and so on ?
It's yui style, try playing with css from that file :
mgc_cb_evo/clientscript/widget-skin.css

Originally Posted by MyCTaK

6. If you have popup that have link to #something it reloads to the CMS, so you can't really complete the operation. I tried to unstick message but when i hit "Unstick" it reloads the page to CMS and even if I am fast enough to hit "OK" it don't work. Its the same with error message when you have open more than allowed pm tabs.

This is a bug, I corrected it in the next version.

Originally Posted by MyCTaK

7. How I can close pm tab?

There is a red cross in the PM tab name.

Originally Posted by MyCTaK

8. My chat is at FORUMHOME and it have background (block mgc_cb_evo_block). Other vBulletin panels dont have. And chat is not vertical centered toward forums (it stays like 15px to the right)

Have you tried to modify the mgc_cb_evo.css to fullfill your specific needs ?

Originally Posted by MyCTaK

9. You can't change "Main channel" name and options. Why?

The main channel is a default channel, you can't change it because I designed it like that (bad reponse huh ).

To change the name of the channel, edit the phrase : mgc_cb_evo_channel_gen.

Originally Posted by MyCTaK

10. Is it possible pm chats to open pm tabs? So if you write to someone and he check his chat after 30min he can see that you have pm him something?

Interesting suggestion, it's not straightforward to do so however.

Would that mean the receiver hasn't done anything in the chatbox for 30 mins (during which a PM is sent to him) and then you would like a popup to open ?

This is not that easy as there is the max PM tabs opened limitation...

Originally Posted by MyCTaK

Don't understand me wrong. I think your product is VERY GOOD and you make it with your heart. But please, fix known bugs before you go for improvements.

In a dream world things would be done like this, however as I do this as a kind of hobby I don't spend all my time on the chatbox.

Per consequence when I work on a new version it's during 1 or 2 weeks a bit every day so If I was first fixing the bugs I would never have time to go on for improvements (due to the time spent on creating the release and releasing it).

So I prefer providing bug fixes along with improvements.