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

[SpreadingLight]

very attractive


https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=559

[Playa82]

you should add a cross to delete shouts u don't want to have. or am i blind ???

i saw no cross for delete...

[adnedarn]

Use the drop down arrow and select "remove the chat of *membername*

But for within the archives, there is not this option yet. It is on the next version though... See top information post...

Inline remove in chatbox archives (like the one on forumdisplay for threads) OK present in next version

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by adnedarn

Use the drop down arrow and select "remove the chat of *membername*

But for within the archives, there is not this option yet. It is on the next version though... See top information post...

Inline chats removal and menu are not the same

There will be both the menu items and the inline removeal within the admincp in the next version.

[VBDev]

Development of the next version is finished.

Remaining tasks are :

• New introduced phrases translation
• Readme update
• Some tests on the update procedure
• Make the new screenshots for the part that changed

[maidos]

great news, so is it possible expecting a new release already today? that is if no one reports new bugs

[OnTheSideDesign]

Hello everyone, I have the older version of the box installed. I will be honest I tried to uninstall it but I OBVIOUSLY didnt find out how to uninstall it properly because when I did I got member errors. The only way to get things back to normal was to reinstall it through the admin panel. I would like to impliment the new chatbox but I honestly want to know how to uninstall the older box properly. Right now I am using the CYB chat and not totally happy with it. How much resources do you claim the new chatbox is using?

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by maidos

great news, so is it possible expecting a new release already today? that is if no one reports new bugs

No because I won't have time to work on the chatbox tonight normally. So release should rather be tomorrow.

Originally Posted by OnTheSideDesign

Hello everyone, I have the older version of the box installed. I will be honest I tried to uninstall it but I OBVIOUSLY didnt find out how to uninstall it properly because when I did I got member errors. The only way to get things back to normal was to reinstall it through the admin panel. I would like to impliment the new chatbox but I honestly want to know how to uninstall the older box properly. Right now I am using the CYB chat and not totally happy with it. How much resources do you claim the new chatbox is using?

Have you followed the uninstall instructions from the older chatbox readme file, they should be pretty clear ?

About resources, honnestly I don't know it's not easy to estimate the server load. I think that it might be less for this version but really can't exactly tell.

On the current version, there is a little lag but it's on user side (corrected in the version to be released ).

[OnTheSideDesign]

I will look at it again to see about getting it properly uninstalled....will the new version work with CMPS 3.0?

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by OnTheSideDesign

I will look at it again to see about getting it properly uninstalled....will the new version work with CMPS 3.0?

Yes it will once stangger5 will have released the new vBAdvanced module.