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

[l3asturd]

Originally Posted by PJSkiboy

I just checked my function.php file in the includes directory and my function.php file only has 2137 lines of code in it. Yours is saying you've got at least 4097 if I'm understanding correctly. *Someone correct me if i'm an idiot, please.*

Sounds like you've got some major additions to that function.php file that are messing with some calls in the main mod .php file. Only a guess.

Well, I wondered that too. But I googled fetch_template() and found that literally hundreds of live websites have the same message with different templates and they all refer to line 4097. For example:

http://www.uberfrags.net/modules.php?name=Jig

and

http://www.reef2reef.com/hotlinks.ph...te&moduleid=54

and there are a lot more with line variations such as 3912, 3984, etc

[PJSkiboy]

giaguaro, i just looked at your site, I see now that it is in Spanish.

I'm guessing instead of selecting the English file, go into the 'Not Updated" folder and select the Spanish XML file.

Again, I'm 'guessing' on that one.

[giaguaro]

thx a lot.
Now: is it a problem if my board work in italian?
I mean, the 2 language files doesnt interfer? or have i to do a neat translation and create an italian file?

EDIT : i found the italian translation in the "not updated" folder, will it work? hope so

[giaguaro]

Warning: require_once([path]/mgc_cb_evo/classes/class_core.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(103) : eval()'d code on line 4

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/var/www/jtv.cc/forum/mgc_cb_evo/classes/class_core.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/jtv.cc/forum/includes/class_bootstrap.php(103) : eval()'d code on line 4

To tell the truth, i cant see ANY class_bootstrap.phpin the include folder, neither in the chat files, nor in the vbulletin native files...
Cant tell about the other files, but everything was uploaded fine

[whitedd]

how can i change background to some colour?

[vapid2323]

Hey guys,

So I had a custom forum skin created for me and now all the buttons on my Chatbox are missing. I figured this was because the images folder was not uploaded to the new skin. But even after uploading it and also disabling and relabeling the plug-in I still can’t get the images to show up.

All I get are the missing image.. Image.

Any tips on how I can get the images to work on my new skin?

[basilrath]

Just a quick question on this

Can an "image" be set in as a backdrop to the chatbox?

Obviously with a transparency etc but can it be added ?

[vapid2323]

Originally Posted by vapid2323

Hey guys,

So I had a custom forum skin created for me and now all the buttons on my Chatbox are missing. I figured this was because the images folder was not uploaded to the new skin. But even after uploading it and also disabling and relabeling the plug-in I still can?t get the images to show up.

All I get are the missing image.. Image.

Any tips on how I can get the images to work on my new skin?

Anyone?

[RobbieZ]

If memory serves me correctly you dont put the button images in the 'skin' folder they are in the generic image folder so it doesnt matter how many skins or themes you have it will always display your buttons no matter what..

eg. http://www.yourwebsite.com/images/misc/mgc_cb_evo/

For future reference:

Right click the image and hit view, you should now see an error page, this will show you what folder the images should be in.

Hope that helps

[zelnik]

Uninstalled as the programmer keeps promising an update but it never happens.

It's to resource hungry and slows down my forum like crazy.