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

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by ispots

2 things:

1. Where do I determine/change which words are censored in the chatbox? Is it the censored list from vbulletin?

2. My "Who's Online" seems to never be in sync with who is actually online. I have played with the settings quite a bit but it just doesn't make sense. People who are actively posting don't show as online...

1. Should be, but VBdev would know the final answer. Easiest way to check is censor something in VB and type it in the chatbox.

2. This goes off however many minutes. If they leave whatever page impression they are on, count restarts. I don't even base if off that on my servers. I just type and if others are there, they reply.

[F0xy]

'mgc_cb_evo\.php$' => 'chatbox.html'
'mgc_cb_evo\.php\?do=view_chatbox$' => 'chatbox.html'
'mgc_cb_evo\.php\?do=view_archives&page=(\d+)' => 'chatbox/archiv/page-$1.html'
'mgc_cb_evo\.php\?do=view_archives$' => 'chatbox/archiv/page-1/'

where do you put that code if you have vbseo?

[Ranger187]

Try asking in the VBSEO hack thread too....

[joe1989]

When I uninstalled, the permissions section in the usergroups did not go away. Now whenever I try to edit usergroup permissions, I get a database error. Why is this? What can I do?

Thanks!

[Ranger187]

You didn't delete all the files. Check in /includes/xml

[Queball_Beast]

Hi,

The del command no longer works for me, I upgraded from 0.3.0 to 0.4.0 and it just stopped working.

I have re-downloaded and re installed twice and it still wont work for me though it was working before the upgrade. Any ideas as to what went wrong?

Thanks

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by Queball_Beast

Hi,

The del command no longer works for me, I upgraded from 0.3.0 to 0.4.0 and it just stopped working.

I have re-downloaded and re installed twice and it still wont work for me though it was working before the upgrade. Any ideas as to what went wrong?

Thanks

Read this again. It's the Readme in the Commands folder.

Install instructions (all versions)
Update instructions (version < 0.3.0)
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Warning notice : With the 0.3.0 version, commands update are not possible, you must first uninstall them and then follow these instructions :

1/ Import the product-mgc_cb_evo_cmd located in the root of the "Commands" folder

For each command you which to install :

1/ If the command's folder contains a "Files" directory, upload its content to your forum root.
2/ If the command's folder contains an "Images" directory, upload its content in each of your forum's styles directory.
3/ Import the command located in the "xml" directory through the command management system.

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Update instructions (version > 0.3.0)
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For each updated command since your chatbox version:
1/ If the command's folder contains a "Files" directory, upload its content to your forum root.
2/ If the command's folder contains an "Images" directory, upload its content in each of your forum's styles directory.
3/ Import the command located in the "xml" directory through the command management system.

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Uninstall instructions :
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For each command :

1/ Remove all the command files from your forum directories.
2/ Remove the command from the command management system.

If you don't have anymore commands :

1/ Uninstal the MGC Chatbox Evo Commands product

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Ranger187

1. Should be, but VBdev would know the final answer. Easiest way to check is censor something in VB and type it in the chatbox.

2. This goes off however many minutes. If they leave whatever page impression they are on, count restarts. I don't even base if off that on my servers. I just type and if others are there, they reply.

1. Yes censored word must be set through the vBulletin censor system.
2. It's because the refresh of the chatbox doesn't update the who's online status certainly so you see them online in the chatbox while the forum itself think they are not.

[Skyrider]

Hey VBDev, just wanted to report a few bugs / problems:

1), Swear filter can be bypassed with the /me command. If you for example have "awesome" within in the filter to change it to *****, so:

I'm awesome!

Would change to

I'm *******!

Within the chat. But if you combine it with /me is awesome, it shows "Skyrider is awesome" <-- its not filtering it.

2), It seems that the /show ban command is only working on fully admins, supers and moderators. If I select that other usergroups can ban, it works fine. But it seems they do not have access to the /show ban command at all. If that usergroup attempts to do so, they are getting that:

Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in [path]/includes/functions_mgc_cb_evo.php on line 905

and

usernamehere, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

You might say "The usergroup does not have ban rights", which I'm afraid is not the case.. When I use the /ban on uname Skyrider command from that usergroup (not admin,super or mod) it says "The user was successfully banned"

[ispots]

Hey vbDev...

Is it possible to have it so that when a user sets a font format (color, bold, etc) that it stays set that way until they choose otherwise?

My users want their posts to be unique and don't want to set it every time.