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

[VBDev]

totally remove : the alert()

[SnapOff Racing]

Yeah I'm having mad issues with the new version. First off my archives are not showing up as well, just as described by Brood. I'm using FF 3.0.5, here is what the archives look like. Also I have my archives set to display 100 chats per page which works fine in the 1.1.0 version but not 2.2.0, in 2.2.0 it only shows like 10 or 20.

New Archives Page

Old Archives Page


Also below in the first picture is what my chatbox used to look like with 1.1.0 and the second picture is what it looks like now. You'll notice how my chats aren't separated by the gradient columns anymore, everything is just one color. I'm not sure if that is a change or if it's an issue or what.

Old ChatBox Style

New ChatBox Style

[VBDev]

SnapOff did you use to have modified version of the chatbox template ?

Becareful in the new version of the chatbox now archives only shows chats from last 24 hours then you have to use the select box to view more chats.

[SnapOff Racing]

Originally Posted by VBDev

SnapOff did you use to have modified version of the chatbox template ?

Becareful in the new version of the chatbox now archives only shows chats from last 24 hours then you have to use the select box to view more chats.

Negative, no template edits on anything. It looks like the new version is ignoring my "Second Alternating Color (Customized in this Style)" that is listed under "All Style Options" in my Style Manager. For example, right now using the 1.1.0 version if I go into my forum style directory and delete the file "alt2_bg.gif" which is the file that is listed as my "Second Alternating Color" then my 1.1.0 ChatBox will look like it does in the 2.2.0 version. So something in the 2.2.0 version is causing it to NOT load that CSS option or something.

When you say "use select box to view more chats" what option are you talking about? I don't have any archive pages like I used to which can be seen in the pics I posted.

[VBDev]

For the new version to take the second alternating color into account, you need to activate the option which I think you did ?

The option I am talking about for the select box is a new dropdown menu on the left in the archives.

[yakuza35]

what is this error can u help me?

[Brood]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Just tested, I can pass to the second page it works.

perhaps an issue on my end, will test further.

[entertain]

Bugzilla shows the following error. But for me the chatbox is working fine.

[ispots]

Why did you take away the smilies and formatting buttons on the chatbox? My users use that pretty extensively.

[ispots]

Also....after installing this, my chatbox shows all of the correct history, but when I go into the archives there are only a few lines there and none of the full history.