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

[iJoe]

I do not recommend this shoutbox at all. The features are great but uninstalling it isn't an option and when I tried it killed the forum completely. Not worth it

[safakuygur]

Originally Posted by dyna88

I had to translate your image since I don't speak Turkish but I think I figured out what it is you found...LOL

The chats running horizontal in Firefox and not displaying in IE was caused by "Add Template Name in HTML Comments" set to yes? I don't have it installed the moment to test it but that makes sense...I did have that enabled. Great find!!!


Edit: I tested it and that was it!!!

I added a screen shot for us non Turkish speaking members.....Thanks again!!!

sory
I FORGOT ENGLISH, WRITE,

ISN'T GOOD IN MY ENGLISH

THE PROBLEM DISSOLVED

WITH MY LOVE friends

[Stile2]

Installed as directed. The MGC chat controls show up in the admincp, but no chat box in the forums themselves. help? running vb 3.7.4

[pedroenf]

Originally Posted by iJoe

I do not recommend this shoutbox at all. The features are great but uninstalling it isn't an option and when I tried it killed the forum completely. Not worth it

That is something not, at least polite, to say. U have it installed since first edition, installed and uninstalled several times and did no harm to my forum. You must have done something wrong, but even wronger is to say that this mod kills a forum.

[Blumy]

Is there going to be an option to open up a Private Message channel like with the Inferno Shoutbox? I PM a lot of members through the shoutbox but It gets rather annoying when I have PM's popping up in the middle of conversations. I would appreciate it if they popped up in seperate channels.

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by iJoe

I do not recommend this shoutbox at all. The features are great but uninstalling it isn't an option and when I tried it killed the forum completely. Not worth it

I don't recommend you talk or eat but that doesn't mean others need to listen. It's an opinion.

Anyways, if you read the readme file it CLEARLY tells you how to uninstall. And EVERY person that had issues including you didn't follow those instructions. I know this because I've installed it on about 2000+ sites for people including uninstalling, troubleshooting etc.

Reinstall the product, FOLLOW the readme, and it will uninstall fine.

1. You never posted here for help.
2. You posted in the Ajax(non evo) thread for something else, but again, not asking for help. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1977 By that post it looks obvious you don't understand some settings as that issue is easily remedied.

It takes me all but a few minutes to set this up on any site and 100% work. And I'm not the developer. I just like the product and offer support freely. If you want help, ask. I can get it working for you if you want, just pm me info like ftp and forum account and I'll help.

And the reason I support it so much, is every forum I have it running on, user impressions (amount of time spent on forum) more then doubles. People went from a few minutes to hours.

Originally Posted by Stile2

Installed as directed. The MGC chat controls show up in the admincp, but no chat box in the forums themselves. help? running vb 3.7.4

Yeah buddy, enable usergroup options.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by dyna88

I had to translate your image since I don't speak Turkish but I think I figured out what it is you found...LOL

The chats running horizontal in Firefox and not displaying in IE was caused by "Add Template Name in HTML Comments" set to yes? I don't have it installed the moment to test it but that makes sense...I did have that enabled. Great find!!!


Edit: I tested it and that was it!!!

I added a screen shot for us non Turkish speaking members.....Thanks again!!!

Wow that's very odd !

Which version of vB do both of you have ?

Thanks for having found that tricky one ! I will add it to the todolist and see what's wrong in it.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Claudi

Hi,

the chatbox seems to work, but there seem to be problems with the IE.
You can't close the box, and if you click the BB-Code and the smilies, you can use the functions but errors are shown at the button left hand (a yellow warning triangle). As mentioned above, we can't close the box at all. I don't have any problems with FF and Opera. Can someone help me with the problem? I use vB 3.7.4and the Chatbox 1.1.0.

Claudi

Becareful when saying that you can't close the chatbox.

There is an option that set the number of posts to be shown when the chatbox is collapsed. So it means that shouts will still be shown even if the chatbox is "closed" unless you put 0 in that option.

[VBDev]

2.0.0 Development status :

Yeah as you can see guys the next version won't be 1.1.1 or 1.2.1 but 2.0.0 !

This means that some part of the software have been totally rewritten in the upcoming version. This time it's not the PHP but the javascript !

As stated long ago, I add to modify the chatbox js code in order to apply the new vB ajax way of use based on YUI syntax. And here you go ! I have had time to do it and it's working well !!

This migration will lead to major enhancements in the version following the coming one ! BE PREPARED

Back to the subject ! So development is going pretty well, there is still one feature to be moved to YUI : the dialog box. Then there will be still few other bugs to fix (remaining one in the list) and perhaps some other additionnal features as well and the release will be ready for ... beta testing !
As many changes have been made to the javascript core of the chatbox I want true beta testers not just users that want to see how the new version looks like ! As a consequence, the beta phasis will certainly be a bit longer this time in order to give users the time to test all features of the chatbox (not only the one they use frequently) in order to make in-depth feedbacks of the new release !

So hold on to your keyboards, baby is coming

[Ranger187]

This time add the save/restore/backup feature