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

[Dr. Bantham]

Installed 0.3.0 in hopes of it fixing the page variable method, but it did not. Instead, the page variable method will not even display the box now on vBa or ibProArcade. Furthermore, the vBa Module no longer functions. It appears as if you are logged out, with no entry box and no icons.

[ariellio]

Originally Posted by VBDev

About install, honestly if you read carefully the install instructions it's really really no problem IMO. I have made my possible to make it as clear as possible !

The only thing I could do more is to make the install procedure as a manual with images so that users who don't like reading readme (they are intended to be read though ...) could get it to work.

What you must understand is that we, coders, can't make all the job

One of the job of a good forum admin is to read carefully install instructions before installing a mod. Like you would logically do with anything else you would be installing or buying for your computer.

I wasn't trying to criticize you. I just wanted to share the reasons I had problems during installation. Having all the images files in the images folder is easier for Uploading, especially if you have a lot of styles on your forum.

I think you did a great job with this mod & I think you for it! :up:

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by RokuDaMerlin

i have problems to install this =(

i have Vb 3.7 b5 and php 5 = error =(

What error do you get ?

Originally Posted by AdmiralGeek

No, the width.

people on wide screen enabled monitors 1024x768

and when i set my own resolution to that display, the chatbox does not remend its self to the screen resolution.

what is the CSS id/class for the chatbox, maybe additional CSS to take control of this

Originally Posted by AdmiralGeek

the problem is with the allowance of letting people to change the size of the text input field,

you should amend the total percentage of the chatbox block if this is increased or decreased, that is if you are using percentages.

But the chatbox size is in percentages.

Honestly, the fact that user can change the percentage is "your" problem, as admin you must be aware of what you are doing and should configure it correctly so that you ensure compatibility for all design.

I won't make Enormous computations just to avoid that.

Originally Posted by Saint_ago

Yeah, right!
But i'm still having problems with stick messages, an ordinary user cannot stick a shout even with the option available in the side menu... it shows like the message was fixed but nothing happens.

Thanks. :up:

Only users that have management rights can sticky messages. Does those user haven't the rights ?

Originally Posted by MotMann

Sorry..... but, what i shell do, that the Chatbox displayed in "online.php"?

Im searching, but found nothing

And ... nice work again

Have you tried activating the display chatbox under the navbar on all pages and then add online in the pages list ?

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by AdmiralGeek

i ban a user in the chat box, but they can still use the shout box

yet the person banned gets a pm saying they are banned

and the ban /show shows that person as been banned!

yest another bug?

/ban on Admiral

when i try it this way i get the error

Error! The command entered is not valid syntax

I have tested it before releasing the new version and the ban was working. The chatbox just disapeared to me when I refreshed the page.

Do you have specific configurations ? Were those user able to use the chatbox just after ban but not if they reload the page ?

About the syntax, you are not using the correct one, check chatbox help for syntax, the good syntax is /ban on uname Admiral.

Originally Posted by AdmiralGeek

another bug, when you decide to create a channel, and enter the image name ( your directions DO not tell people to enter any directory names, just the image name!) when you do this, the image does not appear just the ALT="private message" on the broken img scr="" parameter in the a href tag.

and i noticed that when you send a private message to a user it comes up on the rugular chat as FROM username (but does not be seen by regular members, maybe this is due to a channel not been created)

I would advise you VBdev to re-apply this modification as BETA, as it has a long way to go.

And no negativity on your side, it would have been more professional if you were to de-bug this script within a private beta testing area, rather than publicly.

This is not a bug, this is more a missing explanation which shall be in a manual if only I add time to write one...

Channel images must be uploaded in your styles directory in the misc/mgc_cb_evo/channels, this is certainly why it didn't worked for you.

About the pm, yes if the pm command is not attached to a channel it appears in the general channel with the from word before (or to if the message is sent to another user by you) but is ony visible to you and the message recipient.

I don't see the point of going back to BETA. Does Jelsoft goes to beta for each minor bugs in vBulletin ? Hopefully not !

The few bugs that are still in the mods are really minor issues.

I don't intend to behave in a professionnal manner, vBulletin is a hobby for me so I won't constraint myself as I do at work (as a digital electronic designer).

And you know I deliver this mod for free and there are hours and hours of works behind that. Compared to the number of hours of code and number of lines, honestly those bugs are ridiculous

Originally Posted by Dr. Bantham

Installed 0.3.0 in hopes of it fixing the page variable method, but it did not. Instead, the page variable method will not even display the box now on vBa or ibProArcade. Furthermore, the vBa Module no longer functions. It appears as if you are logged out, with no entry box and no icons.

I didn't changed anything to the global thing, there is no reason it wouldn't work anymore in iBProArcade.

U have correctly checked options ? About the vBa Module, you should ask stangger5 about that

Originally Posted by ariellio

I wasn't trying to criticize you. I just wanted to share the reasons I had problems during installation. Having all the images files in the images folder is easier for Uploading, especially if you have a lot of styles on your forum.

I think you did a great job with this mod & I think you for it! :up:

Hum yes didn't get you on that point but you're certainly right

[RokuDaMerlin]

i have uninstall the evo and i have now the old chatbox 1.5 this work perfect ..sry i have forget copy the error code .. =(

[VBDev]

Oh That's strange that you get errors.

Could you give it a quick try so that we could perhaps see what's wrong ?

[RokuDaMerlin]

i will test for you .. and hope that will work now .. my english is not the best sry .. i will now de-install the chatbox 1.5 and install the new v 030 now .. i hope this work .. i will post the error message

[VBDev]

Thanks very much

I am going to bed so will have a look at what happened to you tomorrow.

[RokuDaMerlin]

oh .. i have this box on my active portal run you know ? i can this not test wen you go to bed .. we can this make tomorrow .. ok ? say a time ..

edit:

Warning: require_once(/includes/functions_mgc_cb_evo.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /global.php(419) : eval()'d code on line 253

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/homepages/5/d70589587/htdocs/sl-clublife/Forum/includes/functions_mgc_cb_evo.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php5') in /homepages/5/d70589587/htdocs/sl-clublife/Forum/global.php(419) : eval()'d code on line 253

[Dr. Bantham]

I uninstalled to revert to an earlier version, had issues, came back to install again. Database error when assigning options. Far too much time wasted on trying to get this to work. I appreciate your efforts but I can not afford to spend anymore time on this one.
UNINSTALLED