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

[Gn_Snake]

the same problem. nothing post????

[lord eriol]

updated from 1.0.0 to 1.1.0 few days ago... and have encountered some problems

1) with a specific skin, if i try to write something in chatbox i get this error:

Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error.

this happen only with one specific skin, not with the default skin, and not with another skin
that i have (this faulty skin is compatilble with vb 3.7 obviously, and was ok with previous version 1.0.0 of chatbox)

2) the name of user that post in chatbox, is not aligned with the first row of his text...
but is centered verticalliy with text (ex. if user XYZ write 3 rows of text, his name is aligned with central row, not wih first row), and this is not nice to see, i prefer as was on 1.0.0 (aligned with first row)

3) when i click on "user online" icon, the chatbox expand vertically... but the list of users online is ever empty! Furthermore when click that icon, the chatbox post disappear, and if i click again on same icon, the chatbox don't collapse as i expected, the only way to report
chatbox at normal state, is to refresh browser.

these above are the new problems.... but i have other probs from previous version 1.0.0, that i have alredy reported here (much posts ago), and these problems are still there:

A) no matter how i set order of smilies in mgc evo panel, the smilies are ever in a random-like order... or maybe is in a order that i don't recognize, but not the same order of post editor. I have a forum with near 200 smilies, and this is a big problem for me.

B) The PM command don't function! If i use

/pm uname "username" pmtext

or

/pm uid "userid" pmtext

(ex. /pm uname Lord Eriol test)

i get the message:

Erreur : L'utilisateur n'existe pas

but this is false, the user is there in the chatbox instead!
However, if i click on triangle on the left of nickname in the chatbox, i can send PM message correctly

C) the option to limit posting in chatbox only to user that has posted N messages on forum in the last 24h don't function correctly. I set this option only for registered users group, not for MOD e ADMIN, but the limit is instead applied to every usergroup! No matter if MOD or not.

D) the double post problem as already reported from others. Sometime, seem that the text are posted two time, but other user dont see it twice, only the author see it twice.


....about positive difference with 1.0.0, i noticed that the BAN command function now!

I think this chatbox is a great chat and a great mod, im grateful to vbdev for it, but i hope all these bugs can be fixed soon

But I need particularly a fix or hint to solve the skin-related problem (the 1st) , please.
If there is not solution now for that problem.... then please tell me how i can reinstall the previous version 1.0.0
Thanks

[Skyrider]

Curious, when you remove text / messages. Does it gets logged as well? Would be nice to see when you remove chats, it gets saved in "deleted messages archives" or within the logs.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by carlos2000

All the changes are made without success.

While thinking at your problem I was wondering if you had the problem on all pages in which the chatbox is ?

Also, just after the install, with no specific changes in the chatbox options except the usergroup permissions, were you encountering the same behaviour ? Can you please test ?

Originally Posted by Gn_Snake

the same problem. nothing post????

Fresh install or upgrade ?

If upgrade, from which version ?

Originally Posted by lord eriol

1) with a specific skin, if i try to write something in chatbox i get this error:

this happen only with one specific skin, not with the default skin, and not with another skin
that i have (this faulty skin is compatilble with vb 3.7 obviously, and was ok with previous version 1.0.0 of chatbox)

Hum the javascript code has remained unchanged. I hope you haven't applied the javascript modificatin for SECURITYTOKEN as you are running 3.7 ?

Originally Posted by lord eriol

2) the name of user that post in chatbox, is not aligned with the first row of his text...
but is centered verticalliy with text (ex. if user XYZ write 3 rows of text, his name is aligned with central row, not wih first row), and this is not nice to see, i prefer as was on 1.0.0 (aligned with first row)

Oh seems like it's a center = middle which shall not be applied to that column. Let's add it to the bug list.

Originally Posted by lord eriol

3) when i click on "user online" icon, the chatbox expand vertically... but the list of users online is ever empty! Furthermore when click that icon, the chatbox post disappear, and if i click again on same icon, the chatbox don't collapse as i expected, the only way to report
chatbox at normal state, is to refresh browser.

Known bug see the bug list, corrected in the next version

Originally Posted by lord eriol

A) no matter how i set order of smilies in mgc evo panel, the smilies are ever in a random-like order... or maybe is in a order that i don't recognize, but not the same order of post editor. I have a forum with near 200 smilies, and this is a big problem for me.

There is an option to get smilies in the vBulletin posts order since you requested it.

Originally Posted by lord eriol

B) The PM command don't function! If i use
or


(ex. /pm uname Lord Eriol test)

i get the message:

but this is false, the user is there in the chatbox instead!
However, if i click on triangle on the left of nickname in the chatbox, i can send PM message correctly

This is because you don't use the right syntax.

For username : /pm uname "Lord Eriol" test or /pm uid userid test (without "" for the uid).

Originally Posted by lord eriol

C) the option to limit posting in chatbox only to user that has posted N messages on forum in the last 24h don't function correctly. I set this option only for registered users group, not for MOD e ADMIN, but the limit is instead applied to every usergroup! No matter if MOD or not.

Isn't it an usergroup permission ? Are you sure of this bug ?

Originally Posted by lord eriol

D) the double post problem as already reported from others. Sometime, seem that the text are posted two time, but other user dont see it twice, only the author see it twice.

Do all users who posts experiences that bug ? Only with IE but not Firefox right ?

Originally Posted by FF|Skyrider

Curious, when you remove text / messages. Does it gets logged as well? Would be nice to see when you remove chats, it gets saved in "deleted messages archives" or within the logs.

I think I did make it so it's logged.

[Gn_Snake]

Upgrade from 0.40 version

[shaynehammy]

Please help.

I uninstalled this as yet if i go into Usergroup permissions I still see MGC Chatbox Evo : Custom permissions.

If i try change any permissions in my usergroup manager i get errors as follows

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.0:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE usergroup SET

### UPDATE QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
`title` = 'Administrators',
`description` = '',
`usertitle` = 'Administrator',
`opentag` = '<font color=\"red\">',
`closetag` = '</font>',
`passwordexpires` = '0',
`passwordhistory` = '360',
`pagerpermissions` = '13',
`pagerquota` = '0',
`pagerminpost` = '0',
`pagerminpostperday` = '0',
`pagermaxperday` = '0',
`pagersendmax` = '0',
`pagersendmaxchar` = '300',
`photoplogpermissions` = '434175',
`photoplogmaxfilesize` = '512000',
`photoplogmaxfilelimit` = '0',
`forumpermissions` = '8388607',
`genericpermissions` = '2113929151',
`attachlimit` = '0',
`pmquota` = '300',
`pmpermissions` = '7',
`pmsendmax` = '100',
`calendarpermissions` = '63',
`wolpermissions` = '31',
`adminpermissions` = '3',
`genericpermissions2` = '1',
`genericoptions` = '47',
`profilepicmaxwidth` = '300',
`profilepicmaxheight` = '300',
`profilepicmaxsize` = '65535',
`avatarmaxwidth` = '150',
`avatarmaxheight` = '250',
`avatarmaxsize` = '600000',
`signaturepermissions` = '237567',
`sigpicmaxwidth` = '500',
`sigpicmaxheight` = '100',
`sigpicmaxsize` = '20000',
`sigmaxrawchars` = '0',
`sigmaxchars` = '0',
`sigmaxlines` = '0',
`sigmaxsizebbcode` = '7',
`sigmaximages` = '0',
`albumpermissions` = '255',
`albumpicmaxwidth` = '600',
`albumpicmaxheight` = '600',
`albumpicmaxsize` = '100000',
`albummaxpics` = '100',
`albummaxsize` = '0',
`usercsspermissions` = '31',
`visitormessagepermissions` = '63',
`socialgrouppermissions` = '511',
`mgc_cb_evo_permissions` = '0',
`mgc_cb_evo_nbmsg_show` = '',
`mgc_cb_evo_nbmsg_perday_show` = '',
`gb_permissions` = '31',
`radiotvpermissions` = '2047',
`videodirectorypermissions` = '0'
WHERE usergroupid=6;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'mgc_cb_evo_permissions' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Tuesday, October 28th 2008 @ 10:21:06 AM
Error Date : Tuesday, October 28th 2008 @ 10:21:06 AM
Script : http://www.thechiefbaboon.com/forums....php?do=update
Referrer : http://www.thechiefbaboon.com/forums...&usergroupid=6

Please advise. Thank you.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Gn_Snake

Upgrade from 0.40 version

Have you done the uninstall of the version as stated in the readme file ?

Version prior to 1.0.0 need uninstall for the update process.

Originally Posted by shaynehammy

Please help.

I uninstalled this as yet if i go into Usergroup permissions I still see MGC Chatbox Evo : Custom permissions.

As said many times in that thread, you haven't followed uninstall instructions correctly.

Go remove the xml files in the includes/xml directory that should do the trick.

[carlos2000]

Originally Posted by VBDev

While thinking at your problem I was wondering if you had the problem on all pages in which the chatbox is ?

Also, just after the install, with no specific changes in the chatbox options except the usergroup permissions, were you encountering the same behaviour ? Can you please test ?

Yes, still the same problem.

[VBDev]

Hum with default option you encounter that.

Even in the default vB style ?

[carlos2000]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Hum with default option you encounter that.

Even in the default vB style ?

Yes, same problem with default style.

Tought about the template modification system could cause the errors??