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]

A lot of my members are complaining to me that they're getting ajax errors and to contact site admin.

I'm yet to get the error myself and trying to get a screen capture of the error but just thought i'd post here to see if anyone else has been getting the same?

The previous version was running just fine!

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by pedroenf

A ChatBox encontra-se no modo inactivo.
Para sair do modo inactivo clique no bot?o "refresh" ou na tecla F5 do seu teclado e actualize toda a p?gina.

Ok then it was the double quotes. These are interpreted as characters you know in javascript and php language.

Originally Posted by inciarco

I've detected a Bug on the Last Version.

When You Edit a Shout all the Most Recent Shouts from the Edited one are not Displayed and the ShoutBox Stays on "Loading" those most Recent Shouts; that don't change even by pressing the "Refresh" Button.

Only Some Minutes Later the ShoutBox decides to Display the Changed Messages and the Newest Ones (from the Changed One).

Is curious because for Unregistered Users (Only the Can See ChatBox Option On), the Changes can be seen immediately.

I Hope you can Detect and Fix that Small Bug.

I liked all the other Improvements, Thank You For Sharing this Great Mod.

My Best Regards.

I am not sure I did understand you. You mean that when you edit a chat in the chatbox the chatbox then stays in loading state ?

Well I just tested and it's working perfect on my forum (forumcoding.com).

Originally Posted by Ranger187

Um. Invisible? You mean it's not there. Make sure usergroups setting is right. Make sure it's enabled etc.

He meant it was invisible in the arcade if I assume right ?

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by zelnik

A lot of my members are complaining to me that they're getting ajax errors and to contact site admin.

I'm yet to get the error myself and trying to get a screen capture of the error but just thought i'd post here to see if anyone else has been getting the same?

The previous version was running just fine!

It's a known "issue". Tell your users to refresh their cache.

[Shishir]

The Language is still Spanish or something. I did everything right I guess. But no luck. Can't understand a Word in Admin CP. All the messages are in that language also.

May I mention, I have uploaded the English Language file as mentioned.

So disappointed. Couldn't figure out, so asking for any help.

Shishir

[zelnik]

Originally Posted by VBDev

It's a known "issue". Tell your users to refresh their cache.

Thanks for the quick reply VBDev!

Hve you any idea on how to fix this yet or is it advisable to go back to the earlier version?

[The Realist]

I had the same problem, see my post Here.

Regards

Originally Posted by Shishir

The Language is still Spanish or something. I did everything right I guess. But no luck. Can't understand a Word in Admin CP. All the messages are in that language also.

May I mention, I have uploaded the English Language file as mentioned.

So disappointed. Couldn't figure out, so asking for any help.

Shishir

[inciarco]

Originally Posted by VBDev

I am not sure I did understand you. You mean that when you edit a chat in the chatbox the chatbox then stays in loading state ?

Well I just tested and it's working perfect on my forum (forumcoding.com).

When I set the Permissions of Any Usergroup to just "Can view the chatbox" that Usergroup can see all the Posts.

When I ser the Permissions of Any Userfroup to "Can use the chatbox" then if I maka a Change on any Post, from that Post and the ones Most Recent the Usergroups where I've set the Permissions to "Can use the chatbox" won't be able to see that Changed Post and the ones Most Recent than That One, at least for some time that I have not yet determine; after that time passes (I don't know what process happens internally on the ChatBox) then the Usergroups are Allowed to see the Changed Post and the Recent Ones.

That is in the ChatBox, because on the History/Archive all the Posts are Shown Well.

And as I said if I set only the Permission of "Can view the chatbox" and the Other ones to No (like for Unregistered Users), then that Usergroup can see all the Posts even the One Changed and most Recent Ones than that.

That Behaviour makes me Deduce that is a Bug; I've used Previous Versions of your ChatBox (exactly the 0.2.1 of EVO) and that Error don't Occur.

What Can Be Happening?

My Best Regards.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by zelnik

Thanks for the quick reply VBDev!

Hve you any idea on how to fix this yet or is it advisable to go back to the earlier version?

Yes I know how to fix it. Just edit the mgc_cb_evo_functions.js file in the clientscript/mgc_cb_evo folder and search for the warning message you users have had.

And remove the whole alert javascript function call in which it's cointained.

Originally Posted by inciarco

When I set the Permissions of Any Usergroup to just "Can view the chatbox" that Usergroup can see all the Posts.

When I ser the Permissions of Any Userfroup to "Can use the chatbox" then if I maka a Change on any Post, from that Post and the ones Most Recent the Usergroups where I've set the Permissions to "Can use the chatbox" won't be able to see that Changed Post and the ones Most Recent than That One, at least for some time that I have not yet determine; after that time passes (I don't know what process happens internally on the ChatBox) then the Usergroups are Allowed to see the Changed Post and the Recent Ones.

That is in the ChatBox, because on the History/Archive all the Posts are Shown Well.

And as I said if I set only the Permission of "Can view the chatbox" and the Other ones to No (like for Unregistered Users), then that Usergroup can see all the Posts even the One Changed and most Recent Ones than that.

That Behaviour makes me Deduce that is a Bug; I've used Previous Versions of your ChatBox (exactly the 0.2.1 of EVO) and that Error don't Occur.

What Can Be Happening?

My Best Regards.

Well I am not having that problem on my forum, please send me a test account so that I can have a look.

[Cybershaolin]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Yes I know how to fix it. Just edit the mgc_cb_evo_functions.js file in the clientscript/mgc_cb_evo folder and search for the warning message you users have had.

And remove the whole alert javascript function call in which it's cointained.

Regarding this error, what do I need to remove exactly between the first ; and the last ; ?

OK I know I have to remove the error message but it ends with )}}... so do I remove the whole thing, even after until the other ; ?

Just want to be sure about what to remove...

;function vBulletin_AJAX_Error_Handler(a){alert("Ajax error: an error has occured in an ajax request of the chatbox, please report your admin")}}YAHOO.util.Event.onDOMReady(function(){YAHOO.initChatbox=new function(){var a=function(){this.cancel();

[entertain]

When clicking on "View all chats of ..." in the menu of a shout (from an other user), I can always only see my own shouts.