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

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Heretiko

just did it and nothing it does not come up i dont know at this point what can be a solution

Turn your other modifications off and browse in the newly created style. If you still don't see it, it has to be a setting somewhere.

[Heretiko]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Turn your other modifications off and browse in the newly created style. If you still don't see it, it has to be a setting somewhere.

did it and... again... nothing sorry mate but dunno what else can do

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Heretiko

did it and... again... nothing sorry mate but dunno what else can do

Well, silly question, but it's all I can think that's left. You're sure it's turned on?

Admin CP ? MGC Chatbox ? General Settings ? Activation of the chatbox

Also, check that you have a width set in % or px and that in Ids of the forums in which the chatbox shall be displayed under Display and position, you have it blank. That's about all I can think of other than you need to do re-install.

[lazydesis]

Originally Posted by Lifesupporters

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?

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?

I have a solution for this and it seems to be working fine

Edit the includes/class_dm_mgccbchat.php file.

Search for :

PHP Code:

                        if (strcasecmp($bot['question'],$this->raw_chat) == 0) 


and replace it by

PHP Code:

                        if (stripos($this->raw_chat,$bot['question']) === 0) 


Simple ..isn't it? :up:

However this only works on PHP5 ..

Originally Posted by VBDev

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

The code that you have posted did not seem to work well for some reason. :down: It does pick up the text from the string and I get a response from the bot, but for any message I try to post after that, it keeps giving me an error "A previous chat is being posted"

Thanks for this awesome mod

[sweetpotato]

I have this error when try to view archive of one member or help
Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in [path]/mgc_cb_evo.php on line 1412

Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in [path]/mgc_cb_evo.php on line 1412

Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in [path]/mgc_cb_evo.php on line 1412

Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in [path]/mgc_cb_evo.php on line 1412

Anyone know how to fix it please?
Thanks,

[Drake Splinter]

Originally Posted by jbd

Installed this, but it seems to sporadically stop working in IE. It's fine in Firefox. Even if I don't upload any further plugins or change any other files at all, after a day or so it causes "object expected" errors in IE7 and the chatbox just hangs.

It's still working fine in Firefox for me, .

I'm having the same problem, but with Internet Explorer 8. I use Firefox at home, so I wasn't aware of the issue until I tried loading my website at work. It causes the error icon to be displayed down in the left hand corner of the screen with the following message:

Message: Object required
mgc_cb_evo_functions.js


Error details:

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2)
Timestamp: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:40:40 UTC

Message: Object required
mgc_cb_evo_functions.js
Line: 2109
Char: 3
Code: 0
URI: http://mywebsite.com/forums/mgc_cb_e...o_functions.js

Has a cause/fix been found for this yet?

[Heretiko]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Well, silly question, but it's all I can think that's left. You're sure it's turned on?

Admin CP ? MGC Chatbox ? General Settings ? Activation of the chatbox

Also, check that you have a width set in % or px and that in Ids of the forums in which the chatbox shall be displayed under Display and position, you have it blank. That's about all I can think of other than you need to do re-install.

uhm i'm about to cry.... please think to something else thanks for all your support mate

[zelnik]

Originally Posted by Drake Splinter

I'm having the same problem, but with Internet Explorer 8. I use Firefox at home, so I wasn't aware of the issue until I tried loading my website at work. It causes the error icon to be displayed down in the left hand corner of the screen with the following message:

Message: Object required
mgc_cb_evo_functions.js


Error details:

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2)
Timestamp: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:40:40 UTC

Message: Object required
mgc_cb_evo_functions.js
Line: 2109
Char: 3
Code: 0
URI: http://mywebsite.com/forums/mgc_cb_e...o_functions.js

Has a cause/fix been found for this yet?

Having the similar problem all of a sudden with IE & Chrome..

I've changed nothing in months and all of a suddenly my site has started crawling using IE and in an infinite loop of contacting site with chrome.

Disabled the chatbox and site is back to normal and much quicker, have had to disable the modification now and use someone else's.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Heretiko

uhm i'm about to cry.... please think to something else thanks for all your support mate

Hrm, I'm really at loss at this point. I would wait for the developer to come back and see if it's just a bug with your version of vB. Generally, we would have figured it out by now.

[Heretiko]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Hrm, I'm really at loss at this point. I would wait for the developer to come back and see if it's just a bug with your version of vB. Generally, we would have figured it out by now.

ok lets wait, dont forget my problem please and thanks btw for all your support