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

[RYoBiOS]

In the Archives anyone may see the other people's PM.

[Astrof]

Hey, everyone.

I am really sorry if this has been asked here before, but I have absolutely no time to read through so many pages, so in case this has been reported and resolved here before, please link me the post.

My Chatbox Evo had been working fine on my newely installed forum. However, I just started translating vBulletin to my language and when I switch to that language Chatbox Evo stops working. The language in the chatbox switched to French if I'm not mistaking and I am unable to send any messages and basically do anything at all.

Does somebody know why this is happening and what I can to to solve it?

Thanks in advance for any input you may give me and, again, sorry for not having time to search through the thread.

EDIT: Figured it out. I entered the wrong code for the HTML character set. The dash was missing, I typed in ISO 639-2 instead of ISO-639-2. And now everything works and I am happy.

[Lindsey]

Im sorry to say this but I have went with the Cyb chatbox for 3.7 .. It runs faster also


https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=177552

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Lindsey

okay, so is there a new release? my shoutbox has stopped working

What is exactly stopped working for you ?

Originally Posted by XiZa

Check http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mbstring.php for multibyte safe functions.. Could be a setting to use the mb_ equivalent, since not everyone has this extension enabled.

It then simply becomes mb_substr

Thanks ! I'll see what I can do with that.

Originally Posted by weedheaven

I wanted to set default chat color, cause the white text was apearing if there is a option to change that. I don't have a problem with different templates. Having same color as the template does.

Oh you mean that you want to be able to set default color per usergroup on a per style basis ?

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Wachtmeister

I also cannot setup channels.

I have created 2 channels and i have also done the setup for the allowed usergroups. But those settings are not saved. (see screenshot)

Everytime i call the settings for the channel, the settings for the usergroups are empty. Maybe thats why users cannot switch channels?

Any helpwould be appreciated.

Thanks, Wachtmeister

I don't have a chatbox installed yet I am sorry I can't check that.

However some users reported that the settings were still taken into account even tho ?

Have you applied the patch for the channels bug ?

Originally Posted by Lindsey

These images are missing...


mgc_cb_evo/menu_open.gif
mgc_cb_evo/progress.gif

They aren't missing and shouldn't be in that directory, they are vbulletin default so perhaps you don't have them in your custom style.

Originally Posted by Y-ZOOM

Hello

thank you man .. it's really great

but i got a problem .. ChatBox so slow

it's really slow not fast .. that make me sad

is there any solution to fix and make it very fast

and this is my settings :
auto refresh : on
time to refresh :1 sec

please help me n show the way to make it fast

Thank You Boss

1s is far too small for a refresh rate. It's less thatn the ajax call duration so this is logical that the chatbox lags when setting a such low rate. You should consider using a higher refresh rate (5s at least, 10s would be good).

Originally Posted by XiZa

People read fast and they might see F5 first.. It's just wrong.. It's not a correct statement I don't know why you don't want to correct this..

Ok I will

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by RYoBiOS

In the Archives anyone may see the other people's PM.

Are you sure of that ?

Originally Posted by Astrof

Hey, everyone.

I am really sorry if this has been asked here before, but I have absolutely no time to read through so many pages, so in case this has been reported and resolved here before, please link me the post.

My Chatbox Evo had been working fine on my newely installed forum. However, I just started translating vBulletin to my language and when I switch to that language Chatbox Evo stops working. The language in the chatbox switched to French if I'm not mistaking and I am unable to send any messages and basically do anything at all.

Does somebody know why this is happening and what I can to to solve it?

Thanks in advance for any input you may give me and, again, sorry for not having time to search through the thread.

EDIT: Figured it out. I entered the wrong code for the HTML character set. The dash was missing, I typed in ISO 639-2 instead of ISO-639-2. And now everything works and I am happy.

Great !

Originally Posted by Lindsey

Im sorry to say this but I have went with the Cyb chatbox for 3.7 .. It runs faster also

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=177552

It's your advice, you do whatever you wants but trolling the thread out like that is not really needed.

[XiZa]

It would be nice if you had an easier install like that other chat product. Yours is still superior though

[estatiktik]

ok its my first install and its not showing it at all...

- Go in the Plugin manager of your admincp

- Edit the "Chatbox display on forumhome" plugin

- Replace : $search_text = '$forumhome_markread_script';

- By : $search_text = '$chatbox_forumhome';

- Then, go into the Style manager and edit the FORUMHOME template

- Put the $chatbox_forumhome var before the $footer var

i did that step but nothing happend and i cant find the $search_text but found it on $find = '$forumhome_markread_script';

what did i do wrong...please help...thanks

[XiZa]

I just checked out the mgc_cb_evo_chat table, why are you not denormalizing the usernames? Like done in the thread and post table? Wouldn't that also make it less resource intensive? No extra , unnecessary join etc.

[XiZa]

and same for the session table (who is online)