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

[zelnik]

Hi vBDEV,

Could you take a look at this please?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=3182

Unfortunately the chatbox has been so successful that it has taken away a lot of posting to the forum so I'm going to have to move it elsewhere to somewhere more out of the way and also if it opens a new window then people can chat and check the forum at the same time.

Thanks for your time.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by zelnik

Hi vBDEV,

Could you take a look at this please?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=3182

Unfortunately the chatbox has been so successful that it has taken away a lot of posting to the forum so I'm going to have to move it elsewhere to somewhere more out of the way and also if it opens a new window then people can chat and check the forum at the same time.

Thanks for your time.

I don't understand what you mean in the first post. You try do add the chatbox in a menu to make it open in the view_chatbox full page ?

Originally Posted by LCN2007

Thank you sir much appreciated im sure it was in this thread but after reading a ton of pages i just had to ask. I will apply the fix tonight when i get home.

Great chat thanks for your hard work.

I can understand, this thread is getting far too big for users to not get lost ...

Anyway I'll soon be launching a forum with a partner for the chatbox and my other (non free mods), I hope it'll help support to get easier than here in that single huge thread.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Angel-Wings

Hmm - related to the smiley retrival problem - dunno but it works fine until I set up more than 1 category - then both categories get mixed.

Modifying the mgc_cb_evo.php file and the SQL statement:

Would display the smilies, sorted by category. Still sorting the categories like set, dunno - seems there's an additional query needed to read from the "imagecategory" table the imagetype and the ID's

Here is a fix that should work :

PHP Code:

            $smilies = $vbulletin->db->query_read("
              SELECT s.smilieid, s.smilietext, s.smiliepath, s.title
              FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "smilie AS s
              LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "imagecategory AS cat ON (s.imagecategoryid=cat.imagecategoryid)
              ORDER BY cat.displayorder ASC,s.displayorder ASC
              LIMIT " . $vbulletin->options['mgc_cb_evo_editor_nbsmileys']
                                                  ); 


Please can you try ?

[zelnik]

Originally Posted by VBDev

I don't understand what you mean in the first post. You try do add the chatbox in a menu to make it open in the view_chatbox full page ?.

Sorry VBDev I know how busy you are.

Basically what I want to do is have your chatbox load from selecting it in the quick links menu.

But when it loads I want it to open in full display mode but in its own window and without the vB menus or anything like that..

So pretty much click a link and chatbox alone loads with nothing else in its own window.

Hope I'm being more clear now?

Thanks, much appreciated.

[VBDev]

Oh yes I see what you mean.

That's a too custom sorry I won't do it in a default release. I could do it for you but as a custom work.

[Greenskull]

screw it, I can't get it o work on vbadvanced, which I can live with, but I NEEEEEEEED it to appear in the Arcade, which it still doesn't. Please someone help.

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by Greenskull

screw it, I can't get it o work on vbadvanced, which I can live with, but I NEEEEEEEED it to appear in the Arcade, which it still doesn't. Please someone help.

Green, I can help you troubleshoot it later today (Sunday). I just got my daughter to goto bed finally and I am too. Anytime after 5pm I'm free.

If you could make me a temp account with admin rights or enough to view templates and a ftp account I can help ya out. Just pm me the info. I'll be around on yahoo/aim as well then.

I think Noobsalad or another forum I run had this issue and it had to do with Vbadcanced and something else. We can probably get it working on the vbanced part too.....

I'm audi for now. I'll be back later in the day.

[Greenskull]

got it, sent you a pm

[Suenee]

I uninstalled this product. I removed the files from my directory and uninstalled the MGC Chatbox Evo product via the uninstall code, per the instructions in the read me file. It is still showing in my usergroups therefore I can not update any usergroups. How do I get this out of the user groups.

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by Suenee

I uninstalled this product. I removed the files from my directory and uninstalled the MGC Chatbox Evo product via the uninstall code, per the instructions in the read me file. It is still showing in my usergroups therefore I can not update any usergroups. How do I get this out of the user groups.

You forgot an xml file or something. Or it was from an upgrade and one set remains. I can look tomorrow too. Just read a few posts up my reply to green....

Green, replying, they head to pillow.