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

[atlambros83]

Thank you for the update Dev. I see in the "Chats sending and formatting" options where you added the smiley retrieval by admin cp's order option that i requested. I'm not sure if it is pointing to a different directory than my smilies or if it just plain isnt properly working but for some reason it does not appear to be properly placing my smiley selection.

I also have the smiley categories mod installed on my forums, i'm not sure if this is causing some sort of conflict. Below is a link to the smiley categories mod.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=107196

[nerofix]

Still got syntax errors:

syntax error
(no name)()vbulletin_tabctrl... (line 400)
(no name)(click clientX=0, clientY=0)yahoo-dom-event.j... (line 8)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.or...

And:

Entrez votre chat >>

Please please use english as standard, people from norway, greek, italia, russia, netherlands and so on keep reporting your french language as bug and by the way, your french language is not UTF-8 ..

Je compris francais, parce que j'ai apris francais a l'ecole, but 99 % of the forumusers doesnt understand french and thats why I get bugreports about your chatbox en masses .. :-/

[AdmiralGeek]

there is a problem with the ajax refresh of the shouts when the dropdown menu is selected during a refresh.

When someone selects the drop down menu (and the shouts are refreshing, the user must refresh the entire page before they can select the drop down menu again) (tested with the chatbox refresh rate at 3 seconds)

No work around to this so far.

Must be re-written. (no matter what time you have the refresh period set to, anytime during the refresh period, the drop down menu will cease to function until the entire page is refreshed)
VbDev pm and i will give you the link to the site, and you can evaluate for your self)

Also the delete command does not work within the shouts archive, the usergroup that is designated with the permission must select the checkbox and delete the shout that way, it would be advised that the option from the drop down menu be removed when in the shouts archive.

i have turned off automatic refresh has been disabled until this can be fixed

also the userprompt is in french, and i aint going changing more phrases.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by nerofix

Still got syntax errors:

syntax error
(no name)()vbulletin_tabctrl... (line 400)
(no name)(click clientX=0, clientY=0)yahoo-dom-event.j... (line 8)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.or...

And:

Entrez votre chat >>

Please please use english as standard, people from norway, greek, italia, russia, netherlands and so on keep reporting your french language as bug and by the way, your french language is not UTF-8 ..

Je compris francais, parce que j'ai apris francais a l'ecole, but 99 % of the forumusers doesnt understand french and thats why I get bugreports about your chatbox en masses .. :-/

About your problems, do you have a link to your forum please with a test account so that I can see that ?

About the Entrez votre chat >>, I don't see the problem with it as its an option.

The problem is not a question of standard, I have decided to develop the mod in french language by default as it's my mother tongue.

The problem is that many users don't "think" when they install a mod. They don't go through all options or else. And you know a good admin should to ensure good configuration of his forum.

I don't understand your point with utf-8 ? Coz english language is not utf-8 either in vBulletin.

Originally Posted by AdmiralGeek

there is a problem with the ajax refresh of the shouts when the dropdown menu is selected during a refresh.

When someone selects the drop down menu (and the shouts are refreshing, the user must refresh the entire page before they can select the drop down menu again) (tested with the chatbox refresh rate at 3 seconds)

No work around to this so far.

Must be re-written. (no matter what time you have the refresh period set to, anytime during the refresh period, the drop down menu will cease to function until the entire page is refreshed)
VbDev pm and i will give you the link to the site, and you can evaluate for your self)

Also the delete command does not work within the shouts archive, the usergroup that is designated with the permission must select the checkbox and delete the shout that way, it would be advised that the option from the drop down menu be removed when in the shouts archive.

i have turned off automatic refresh has been disabled until this can be fixed

About the options, this is due to a missing feature in the archive js file I didn't thought at that ooops sorry

Should have tested dropdown in archives...

About the refresh thing, this is something I didn't encountered as my refresh rate was higher than that but I'll look at that.

Thanks for your bug reports this help me making it the most complete as possible.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by AdmiralGeek

also the userprompt is in french, and i aint going changing more phrases.

See my last post + changelog.

Since 0.2.0, prompt message text is an option

[Saint_ago]

Originally Posted by VBDev

This is based on usergroup permissions so I think you haven't set that usergroup permission

My bad! Now it's okay!

But i'm receiving this DB error by email:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.8:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT c.*,fromu.userid AS fromuserid,fromu.username AS fromusername,fromu.usergroupid AS fromusergroupid,fromu.displaygroupid AS fromdisplaygroupid,
tou.userid AS touserid,tou.username AS tousername,tou.usergroupid AS tousergroupid,tou.displaygroupid AS todisplaygroupid

FROM vb_mgc_cb_evo_chat AS c
LEFT JOIN vb_user AS fromu ON (c.fromuid=fromu.userid)
LEFT JOIN vb_user AS tou ON (c.touid=tou.userid)
LEFT JOIN vb_mgc_cb_evo_command AS co ON (c.primcid=co.cid)

WHERE primcid='0'
ORDER BY sticky DESC,c.dateline DESC
LIMIT 25;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'sticky' in 'order clause'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Monday, February 25th 2008 @ 10:18:18 PM
Script : http://bfcentral.oi.com.br/forum/mgc_cb_evo_ajax.php
Referrer : http://bfcentral.oi.com.br/forum/
IP Address : 189.43.64.69
Username : Trapo
Classname : vB_Database


Another issue, when a user doesn't have all required profile fields filled (for example, when a required field is created after his registration) the chatbox just shows empty, with no messages anda no options, and no indication of what is wrong. The user only knows that he have a problem with required fields when he tries to read a post/thread or do another action in forum. After that, when he fills the required fields, the chatbox shows correctly.
But i can't reproduce it. I've logged in as a regular user and tried to stick a message, but nothing happened, not even a db error..

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Saint_ago

But i'm receiving this DB error by email:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.8:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT c.*,fromu.userid AS fromuserid,fromu.username AS fromusername,fromu.usergroupid AS fromusergroupid,fromu.displaygroupid AS fromdisplaygroupid,
tou.userid AS touserid,tou.username AS tousername,tou.usergroupid AS tousergroupid,tou.displaygroupid AS todisplaygroupid

FROM vb_mgc_cb_evo_chat AS c
LEFT JOIN vb_user AS fromu ON (c.fromuid=fromu.userid)
LEFT JOIN vb_user AS tou ON (c.touid=tou.userid)
LEFT JOIN vb_mgc_cb_evo_command AS co ON (c.primcid=co.cid)

WHERE primcid='0'
ORDER BY sticky DESC,c.dateline DESC
LIMIT 25;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'sticky' in 'order clause'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Monday, February 25th 2008 @ 10:18:18 PM
Script : http://bfcentral.oi.com.br/forum/mgc_cb_evo_ajax.php
Referrer : http://bfcentral.oi.com.br/forum/
IP Address : 189.43.64.69
Username : Trapo
Classname : vB_Database

Have you installed the updated product ? It seems not as the sticky field shall have been created upon upgrade.

Originally Posted by Saint_ago

Another issue, when a user doesn't have all required profile fields filled (for example, when a required field is created after his registration) the chatbox just shows empty, with no messages anda no options, and no indication of what is wrong. The user only knows that he have a problem with required fields when he tries to read a post/thread or do another action in forum. After that, when he fills the required fields, the chatbox shows correctly.
But i can't reproduce it. I've logged in as a regular user and tried to stick a message, but nothing happened, not even a db error..

I think it's because the message the user see when going into posts or thread is trying to appear in the chatbox but that can't be displayed as it's not a chat

Do you really think it has an interest to be handled coz I think it would add sql queries ?

[AdmiralGeek]

About the options, this is due to a missing feature in the archive js file I didn't thought at that ooops sorry

Should have tested dropdown in archives...

About the refresh thing, this is something I didn't encountered as my refresh rate was higher than that but I'll look at that.

the problem with the refresh is, that you have the onmousereturn="" Event, this would generally get refreshed just as much as the document it is based on, i am going to change them to onclick, that away at least when the refresh occurs, i can always use the onclick event instead.

in the
mgc_cb_evo_chatbit_menu template
<tr>
<td class="vbmenu_option" onclick="return hilite_chat_menu_item(this);" onclick="return unhilite_chat_menu_item(this);"><a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$user[userid]" rel="nofollow"><phrase 1="$user[raw_username]">$vbphrase[mgc_cb_evo_view_member_profile]</phrase></a></td>
</tr>

The event's must be changed to onclick, with this, it prevents the drop down menu from stop functioning when the refresh period happens during the viewing of the drop down menu.

[Saint_ago]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Have you installed the updated product ? It seems not as the sticky field shall have been created upon upgrade.

Yeah, i've installed all following the instructions within the zip file. Uninstalled all commands, installed and overwrite the product, language, installed the command manager and installed all commands.

Perhaps the errors occurred during the new product installation. I'll keep an eye on the database to see if the error occurs again.

Originally Posted by VBDev

I think it's because the message the user see when going into posts or thread is trying to appear in the chatbox but that can't be displayed as it's not a chat

Do you really think it has an interest to be handled coz I think it would add sql queries ?

In my opinion it's a good feature to add, maybe put as an option on admincp to turn it on or off...

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by AdmiralGeek

the problem with the refresh is, that you have the onmousereturn="" Event, this would generally get refreshed just as much as the document it is based on, i am going to change them to onclick, that away at least when the refresh occurs, i can always use the onclick event instead.

in the
mgc_cb_evo_chatbit_menu template
<tr>
<td class="vbmenu_option" onclick="return hilite_chat_menu_item(this);" onclick="return unhilite_chat_menu_item(this);"><a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$user[userid]" rel="nofollow"><phrase 1="$user[raw_username]">$vbphrase[mgc_cb_evo_view_member_profile]</phrase></a></td>
</tr>

The event's must be changed to onclick, with this, it prevents the drop down menu from stop functioning when the refresh period happens during the viewing of the drop down menu.

You have to onclick events, this won't work .

Yes I should change that certainly, I already did change it for it work on Safari.

Originally Posted by Saint_ago

Yeah, i've installed all following the instructions within the zip file. Uninstalled all commands, installed and overwrite the product, language, installed the command manager and installed all commands.

Perhaps the errors occurred during the new product installation. I'll keep an eye on the database to see if the error occurs again.

In my opinion it's a good feature to add, maybe put as an option on admincp to turn it on or off...

Yes that's certainly the time between file upload and product import

About the feature, I'll see what I can do.