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

[GoTTi]

this has slowed down my forum i installed it on. so i am going back to Cyb Shoutbox.

great mod though, just not forum friendly when there is a lot of users online at the same time.

[Xorn]

my chatbox is in a constant loading....

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by glennybee

I've been running v0.2.1 for a while with no problems. I've recently upgraded to vBulletin 3.7.0 and now the time for each chat is showing the server time instead of the actual timezone time, if you know what I mean. The server is in the USA and I'm in the UK.

I've upgraded the shoutbox to the latest version but it's still showing the wrong time.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

The chat is related to the vBulletin time.

So unless your whole vBulletin show the wrong time, there is no point for the chatbox to do so, especially if it was working before.

Do you have other time issues on your forum ?

Originally Posted by PGAmerica

I uploaded the team and pm images. it would not let me make the channel unless I put the image names in there. The instructions said to put them the "{style folder}misc/mgc_cb_evo/channels" folder. However, I also uploaded them into the main "images/misc/mgc_cb_evo/channels" folder. It did not help.

I do not see the additional channels at all. No images, no text, nothing.

There is a bug in the channel displaying in the current version.

See the first post for a link to the fix

Originally Posted by GoTTi

this has slowed down my forum i installed it on. so i am going back to Cyb Shoutbox.

great mod though, just not forum friendly when there is a lot of users online at the same time.

How did you encountered that slow down ?

The slow down can come from a too big number of shouts displayed in the chatbox, I will work on that issue in the next version thanks to a suggestion of XiZa.

Originally Posted by Xorn

my chatbox is in a constant loading....

Which vBulletin version do you use ?

Have you check in IE or in Firefox Error Consol if any error shows up ?

[weedheaven]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Is it the case with everyone ?

Yes its not only me having the white text apearing. The other styles are dark, so white is ok then. But not on the kirsch template, wich the template i want as default. And i can't get that color working like it should be.

[XiZa]

I think the chatbox is in constant loading when you don't have javascript enabled.

So maybe it would be better to do <table id="chatbox" style="display:none">..</table>

and then

<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById('chatbox').style.display = '';
</script>

or something

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by weedheaven

Yes its not only me having the white text apearing. The other styles are dark, so white is ok then. But not on the kirsch template, wich the template i want as default. And i can't get that color working like it should be.

It's strange, you are using last chatbox version and last vbulletin version right ?

Originally Posted by XiZa

I think the chatbox is in constant loading when you don't have javascript enabled.

So maybe it would be better to do <table id="chatbox" style="display:none">..</table>

and then

<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById('chatbox').style.display = '';
</script>

or something

What is the advantage of such a way to make it ?

[PGAmerica]

Originally Posted by VBDev

There is a bug in the channel displaying in the current version.

See the first post for a link to the fix

OK, now the channels show up. I can assume by this that everybody sees all the channels? Does it stop users from entering channels that they are not supposed to be able to access?

Also, I see the text for the title of the chatroom, but I should be seeing the image. Ideas?

[glennybee]

Originally Posted by VBDev

The chat is related to the vBulletin time.

So unless your whole vBulletin show the wrong time, there is no point for the chatbox to do so, especially if it was working before.

Do you have other time issues on your forum ?

I worked it out, another hack was causing the vbulletin time to be wrong. Sorry for the confusion.

[Tekmon]

I am unable to have channels show as well. the graphic and channels are made however when I go to assign usergroups, it says it saved new settings but when i got back into confirm no usergroups are clicked and no channels show on our shoutbox.

I have made the fix above to show the channels by deleting the "if" statement and its closin </if> but I still can not get it to assign usergroups to a channel nor is it showing, likely because no user groups are asigned to it.

[PGAmerica]

Originally Posted by Tekmon

I am unable to have channels show as well.

There is a bug in the system. To get the channels to display, there is a temporary fix at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1134

Originally Posted by Tekmon

The graphic and channels are made however when I go to assign usergroups, it says it saved new settings but when i got back into confirm no usergroups are clicked and no channels show on our shoutbox.

I noticed that as well. I do not know why the usergroups get unchecked, but they still seem to work as I wanted them too.