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

[kalisekj]

Utahraves, I Just chose a icon of any of the billion smileys and icons out there , copied the icon into the other file names needed and uploaded it took all of 2 mins.

[kalisekj]

oblivion you may wanna see in quick links edit options if you have turned display chatbox to off. I accidentally did that today.

[OblivionMage]

Originally Posted by kalisekj

oblivion you may wanna see in quick links edit options if you have turned display chatbox to off. I accidentally did that today.

Indeed, it is off on my admin account, although that page cannot save as it returns:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function can_view_mgc_cb_evo() in /home/***com/public_html/guidewiki/forums/profile.php(2187) : eval()'d code on line 1

Yet, that shouldn't matter because I've given all usergroups (including unregistered / not logged in) permission to view the chatbox, and none of them can see it (with test accounts).

[ricardoNJ]

I have a problem with the channels and how put the icons.


Nom de l'image du canal
Ne pas mettre ni l'extension ni les suffixes sel/nosel/new.
Les images doivent &ecirci;tre upload?es dans le dossier images/misc/mgc_cb_evo/channels.

[Mellymonster]

is there anyway to get the chat box on the page where it says teh forum is offline? I have my board offline for the time being, but I would like to beable to be in contact with my members, while we do the update...

[ricardoNJ]

Originally Posted by ricardoNJ

I have a problem with the channels and how put the icons.


Nom de l'image du canal
Ne pas mettre ni l'extension ni les suffixes sel/nosel/new.
Les images doivent &ecirci;tre upload?es dans le dossier images/misc/mgc_cb_evo/channels.

Please!!!! I don't know how put this icon in my forum!

[kalisekj]

Originally Posted by ricardoNJ

Please!!!! I don't know how put this icon in my forum!

Ricardo You chose an icon, make 3 names for the same icon Smile_new.gif , Smile_sel.gif Smile_nosel.gif, you put these 3 files in your Forum Styles Images /mgc_cb_evo/channels directory. NOT in the web sites images directory. Then when you create your channels in MGC Admin you Just put the name of the file, IE in this example "smile". Then you will see the icon show for your channels you have created.

[SnapOff Racing]

Damn I been away for a month or so and all kinds of new features are implemented in the new upcoming version! VBDev still cranking it out I see

VBDev I was looking thru the TODO list and I noticed that one of the issues that we were discussing sometime ago isn't on the list anymore. I was just wondering if it was resolved or perhaps accidentally forgotten about. The issue was that when a user types in a chat that is only a link the chat cant be edited. There is no way to double click anywhere on the chatline so that the edit box will appear. Also if someone types in a chat that is a picture but they type the link in wrong, then no picture shows up and the chat is blank. But there is no way to edit the chat afterward. Back in the older 1.1.0 versions you were still able to click someone on the chatline and the edit box would appear.

[ricardoNJ]

Originally Posted by kalisekj

Ricardo You chose an icon, make 3 names for the same icon Smile_new.gif , Smile_sel.gif Smile_nosel.gif, you put these 3 files in your Forum Styles Images /mgc_cb_evo/channels directory. NOT in the web sites images directory. Then when you create your channels in MGC Admin you Just put the name of the file, IE in this example "smile". Then you will see the icon show for your channels you have created.

Thank you very much, Kalisekj,

[fahl]

Can anyone help me in where i put the custom rewrite rules for sbeo

'mgc_cb_evo\.php$' => 'chatbox.html'
'mgc_cb_evo\.php\?do=view_chatbox$' => 'chatbox.html'
'mgc_cb_evo\.php\?do=view_archives&page=(\d+)' => 'chatbox/archiv/page-$1.html'
'mgc_cb_evo\.php\?do=view_archives$' => 'chatbox/archiv/page-1/'