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

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by 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

What do you mean by not working properly ?

Do you mean that you see the color names as shown on your screenshot and that the dropdown doesn't show color lines as it does on some windows machine ?

If so, it's normal, Safari and Chrome doesn't support the background-color css style for select option. There is nothing I could do about this unless I recode dropdown list and so on as it's done by vB for their dropdown list (but I don't have the time to do so sorry).

Originally Posted by 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

Have you applied the bug corrections stated in the first post ? (link near the reported bugs)

Originally Posted by FF|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?

Please be more explicit.

Originally Posted by 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?

You have to upload the mgc_cb_evo image folder in the misc directory of each of your style.

Originally Posted by GreJan

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

Please post a screenshot of what you input in the channel image option and also a screenshot of the content of your channels images directory.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by 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!

Fixed in the next version.

Originally Posted by 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.

Well I don't have the time before the end of the week to run a test but here is a little test of code change we could try.

Edit the includes/class_dm_mgccbchat.php file.

Search for :

PHP Code:

                        if (strcasecmp($bot['question'],$this->raw_chat) == 0)
                        {      
                            // Do some replacements
                            $bot['answer'] = str_replace('{username}',htmlspecialchars($this->registry->userinfo['username']), $bot['answer']);
                            $bot['answer'] = str_replace('{time}',vbdate($this->registry->options['timeformat'],TIMENOW,true,false), $bot['answer']);            
                            $bot['answer'] = str_replace('{date}',vbdate($this->registry->options['dateformat'],TIMENOW,false,false), $bot['answer']);
                            // Save the bot answer for sending
                               $this->bot_answer = $bot['answer'];
                            $notfound    = 0;
                        } 


Replace this by :

PHP Code:

$found = 0;
if (strlen($bot['question']) == strlen($this->raw_chat))
{
    if (strncasecmp($bot['question'],$this->raw_chat) == 0)
    {
        $found = 1; // Same length string and string equals
    }
}
else if (strlen(stristr($this->raw_chat,$bot['question']))>0)
{
    $found = 1; // Bot question included in part of the chat
}
    
if ($found)
{
    // Do some replacements
    $bot['answer'] = str_replace('{username}',htmlspecialchars($this->registry->userinfo['username']), $bot['answer']);
    $bot['answer'] = str_replace('{time}',vbdate($this->registry->options['timeformat'],TIMENOW,true,false), $bot['answer']);            
    $bot['answer'] = str_replace('{date}',vbdate($this->registry->options['dateformat'],TIMENOW,false,false), $bot['answer']);
    // Save the bot answer for sending
    $this->bot_answer = $bot['answer'];
    $notfound    = 0;
} 


I haven't tested the code and did it quickly @work but if you can try it that would be nice

[Lifesupporters]

Thanks for the response VBDEV, much appreciated!

I'll give your code a try this evening, test it for a day or so and report back on how it worked out

[nando99]

Great mod!

Getting errors when I click on Edit Options in the UserCP

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/mgc_cb_evo/class_misc.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/profile.php(4549) : eval()'d code on line 128

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/xwnet/public_html/pts1/includes/mgc_cb_evo/class_misc.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/xwnet/public_html/pts1/profile.php(4549) : eval()'d code on line 128

thanks in advance...

[Da-Vinci]

Sorry if this has already been asked, but this is a very long thread to be reading it all.

My question is I'd like to display the chatbox globally under the Navbar at 100% width of the forum. On my VBA page it displays fine under the Navbar. I added this hook {vb:raw mgc_cb_evo_var} to the end of my Navbar template similar to what I'd done with the VSA chatbox.

The problem is on the Forumhome template the Chatbox gets placed next to the Sidebar, I'd rather have it above the Forums & Sidebar if possible.

It also doesn't seem to display on the forumdisplay or the showthread template.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Lifesupporters

Thanks for the response VBDEV, much appreciated!

I'll give your code a try this evening, test it for a day or so and report back on how it worked out

Yes please Keep me in touch.

Originally Posted by nando99

Great mod!

Getting errors when I click on Edit Options in the UserCP

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/mgc_cb_evo/class_misc.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/profile.php(4549) : eval()'d code on line 128

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/xwnet/public_html/pts1/includes/mgc_cb_evo/class_misc.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/xwnet/public_html/pts1/profile.php(4549) : eval()'d code on line 128

thanks in advance...

See in previous page, the fix has been stated.

Originally Posted by Da-Vinci

Sorry if this has already been asked, but this is a very long thread to be reading it all.

My question is I'd like to display the chatbox globally under the Navbar at 100% width of the forum. On my VBA page it displays fine under the Navbar. I added this hook {vb:raw mgc_cb_evo_var} to the end of my Navbar template similar to what I'd done with the VSA chatbox.

The problem is on the Forumhome template the Chatbox gets placed next to the Sidebar, I'd rather have it above the Forums & Sidebar if possible.

It also doesn't seem to display on the forumdisplay or the showthread template.

For forumhome, an option will be included in next version to allow display just below the navbar (and thus not next to the sidebar).

[VBDev]

Next version development status :

As you can see from the first post, much of the stuff has gone green Which is a good indicator
=> I won't add anything more in the next version code unless perhaps the bot stuff that Lifesupporters is going to test

BETA PHASE IS NOW OPEN, PM ME YOUR EMAIL AND VB VERSION IF INTERESTED.

[nando99]

got it...

i replaced includes/mgc_cb_evo with mgc_cb_evo/classes and all good...

thanks!

[Alfa1]

Please consider this feature request (I should have been more clear when I requested chat reports):
- post reported chat in post report forum. Currently only the admin can handle chat reports, which doesnt work well for big boards with one admin.
- link from the report to the location in the archive. A chat report is often useless, if the chats before it cant be seen. (context)

[furst]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Have you applied the bug corrections stated in the first post ? (link near the reported bugs)

Do you mean to do all those bug error fixes? or is there one i should be specifically looking at? (regarding white screen issue)