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

[poolking]

There appears to be a slight bug.

I have more than 1 channel.

When I go into the archives and select the shouts I want to view from the second channel.

I can see the first page of chats ok, however when I go to view the second page it as reverted back to showing the second page of the general channel.

I have noticed the following url change from:

http://xxxx/forum/mgc_cb_evo.php?do=view_archives&channel_id=1

to

http://xxxx/forum/mgc_cb_evo.php?do=view_archives&page=2

so how do I get the channel_id=1 to appear in the url when I switch to the second page?

It works fine if I manually insert the channel_id=1 into the url to view the 2nd page.

So I need this to do it automatically.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by foopy

Read post #906 of this thread.

NO ! The method you explained is wrong.

This is an option so no need to remove the chatbox replace in the xml and install back !

You just have to change that text in an option of the admincp.

Originally Posted by pericolosogr

Didnt make anyy difference, uninstalled step by step and problem remains...

Hum. Uninstalling the chatbox will have removed everything related to the chatbox so last time the jelsoft team must have done more than that !

Have you tried changing back to utf8 your language ?

Originally Posted by poolking

There appears to be a slight bug.

I have more than 1 channel.

When I go into the archives and select the shouts I want to view from the second channel.

I can see the first page of chats ok, however when I go to view the second page it as reverted back to showing the second page of the general channel.

I have noticed the following url change from:

http://xxxx/forum/mgc_cb_evo.php?do=view_archives&channel_id=1

to

http://xxxx/forum/mgc_cb_evo.php?do=view_archives&page=2

so how do I get the channel_id=1 to appear in the url when I switch to the second page?

It works fine if I manually insert the channel_id=1 into the url to view the 2nd page.

So I need this to do it automatically.

This bug was present in an earlier version of the chatbox. Are you using 1.5 ?

[rizelim]

Thanks

[Super Cat]

Is there a way to have the chatbox collasped when first logging into forum. As of now it is opened when you first enter forum

[poolking]

Originally Posted by VBDev

NO ! The method you explained is wrong.

This is an option so no need to remove the chatbox replace in the xml and install back !

You just have to change that text in an option of the admincp.



Hum. Uninstalling the chatbox will have removed everything related to the chatbox so last time the jelsoft team must have done more than that !

Have you tried changing back to utf8 your language ?



This bug was present in an earlier version of the chatbox. Are you using 1.5 ?

I am using the 0.3.0 for 3.7.0 and I also had the same bug in the 1.5 version for 3.6.x

[AnabolicResourc]

Installed it together with the vBadvanced module in less then 10 minutes.

Works great !

Thank you

[pericolosogr]

Ok problem solved with the language!

Now that i have uninstalled mgc chatbox i went throught my database and have seen 4 tables of the product!
Why didnt they go away by uninstalling, is there something else i have to do?

[stamatis_t]

Greetings from Greece

Excellent job my Friend... Congratulations... :up:

[Tom S]

I have the Chatbox up and running even with pm and Team channels. But when click on Archives, Rules, Help and arrow for full screen I get the following error for all.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function log_admin_action() in /home/bigfootr/public_html/mgc_cb_evo.php on line 15

Only showing first 19 lines of the "/home/XXX/public_html/mgc_cb_evo.php" code.

<?php

// ######################## SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

// #################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES AND DATA ######################
$phrasegroups = array();
$specialtemplates = array();

// ########################## REQUIRE BACK-END ############################
require_once('./global.php');
require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_mgc_cb_evo_cmd.php');

// ############################# LOG ACTION ###############################
log_admin_action();

// ########################################################################
// ######################### START MAIN SCRIPT ############################
// #####################################################################

Please help,
Tom S.

[Lindsey]

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.9:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE usergroup SET

### UPDATE QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
`title` = 'Administrators',
`description` = '',
`usertitle` = 'Administrator',
`opentag` = '<span style=\'color:red;font-weight:bold;\'>',
`closetag` = '</span>',
`passwordexpires` = '0',
`passwordhistory` = '0',
`nbmsgshowchatbox` = '',
`mgccustomusergroupperms` = '0',
`spoilt_repextra_perms` = '254',
`mgc_cb_evo_permissions` = '0',
`mgc_cb_evo_nbmsg_show` = '',
`mgc_cb_evo_nbmsg_perday_show` = '',
`forumpermissions` = '1048575',
`genericpermissions` = '1073741759',
`attachlimit` = '0',
`pmquota` = '250',
`pmpermissions` = '7',
`pmsendmax` = '1000',
`calendarpermissions` = '63',
`wolpermissions` = '31',
`adminpermissions` = '3',
`genericoptions` = '55',
`profilepicmaxwidth` = '100',
`profilepicmaxheight` = '100',
`profilepicmaxsize` = '65535',
`avatarmaxwidth` = '120',
`avatarmaxheight` = '120',
`avatarmaxsize` = '4294967295',
`signaturepermissions` = '237567',
`sigpicmaxwidth` = '65535',
`sigpicmaxheight` = '65535',
`sigpicmaxsize` = '4294967295',
`sigmaxrawchars` = '65535',
`sigmaxchars` = '65535',
`sigmaxlines` = '65535',
`sigmaxsizebbcode` = '7',
`sigmaximages` = '65535'
WHERE usergroupid=6;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'nbmsgshowchatbox' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Sunday, April 6th 2008 @ 01:33:21 AM
Script : http://*******.com/forums/admincp/us....php?do=update
Referrer : http://*****.com/forums/admincp/user...&usergroupid=6
IP Address : *********
Username : Lindsey2
Classname : vb_database