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

[abouthere]

I have installed this mod; however no new post notifications are displayed. People can chat, use BBCode, smilies etc, but get no notifications.

Have I missed something obvious in the installation process?

Regards,

[Sador]

There is a sound notification available, if that's what you mean. It's one of the options and turned off by default.

[todomaquinas]

Originally Posted by Sador

There is a sound notification available, if that's what you mean. It's one of the options and turned off by default.

If not notified, as you explain that puts it:

Notification sound when new messages
Sound notification when a new message in a channel

But that does not operate the same to me, the problem is that they see the new responses, and that goes wrong, as I said.

Regards.

[vgevolution]

Hi everyone. I couldn't wait for the CMPS module update, so I modded the existing one to use the new functions.

I've uploaded my version here, in the MGC Chatbox Evo for vBadvanced CMPS thread. Not trying to hijack stangger5's work, just sharing my fixed module until he makes an official release.

If it works, let him know. Maybe it will help him finish his update.

[mp3u]

I finally got this installed and setup on my forum (3.8.1) but I've run into two problems.

I've searched the thread for answers but there are a few different answers - all tricky looking for a noob too. Just want to know if there is a consensus yet as to the ultimate fix for the following:

1) The chatbox stays permanently on 'loading' until you hit refresh

2) Having been able to use it without anything other than the above problem I now get the following error:

"Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error."

When I say I am a newbie I mean I have zero understanding of code, php etc and very littel to no understanding of server settings and db's etc.

Any dumbed down help would be very much appreciated.

[Sador]

Originally Posted by mp3u

1) The chatbox stays permanently on 'loading' until you hit refresh

Could you be more specific? Does this happen to just you, or to all users? Does it only happen at the start, of do you need to refresh after every message input?

It could be that you're using an older browser, which doesn't support AJAX. In that case, other users shouldn't have the same problem (considering they use other browsers).

[mp3u]

Originally Posted by Sador

Could you be more specific? Does this happen to just you, or to all users? Does it only happen at the start, of do you need to refresh after every message input?

It could be that you're using an older browser, which doesn't support AJAX. In that case, other users shouldn't have the same problem (considering they use other browsers).

Hey Sador, thanks for the reply!

1) This problem happens to all users, across all browsers (IE, Chrome, Firefox).

2) I have a few other Ajax mods on my forum which have never given any trouble plus I always keep my browsers up to date.

Also, the security token problem is showing up for all users on all browser types too. This only appeared today, yesterday was fine when I tested it - it could be something I changed in the Admin CP but I've tried everything I can think of and nothing has fixed it yet...

Also, I havent installed any other mods since.

[OblivionMage]

I get this fatal error on all pages of my forum whether or not it's turned on (disabling the product fixes it):

Fatal error: Call to a member function show_chatbox() on a non-object in /home/****com/public_html/guidewiki/forums/includes/mgc_cb_evo/plugins.php on line 720

Line 720 of plugins.php seems to be:

if($MGCCbEvoCore->show_chatbox() && $MGCCbEvoCore->evo_permissions->can_view())

Any idea what could be causing this issue?

Note: Using VBSeo, VBulletin 3.8.4 and MGC Chatbox 2.4.2

MGC Chatbox used to work on my forum, but stopped for some reason. The Mod_Security workaround doesn't seem to fix it either.

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by OblivionMage

I get this fatal error on all pages of my forum whether or not it's turned on (disabling the product fixes it):

Fatal error: Call to a member function show_chatbox() on a non-object in /home/****com/public_html/guidewiki/forums/includes/mgc_cb_evo/plugins.php on line 720

Line 720 of plugins.php seems to be:

if($MGCCbEvoCore->show_chatbox() && $MGCCbEvoCore->evo_permissions->can_view())

Any idea what could be causing this issue?

Note: Using VBSeo, VBulletin 3.8.4 and MGC Chatbox 2.4.2

MGC Chatbox used to work on my forum, but stopped for some reason. The Mod_Security workaround doesn't seem to fix it either.

If it used to work, what have you done/changed? Have you upgraded a plugin, the forum or the chatbox version? Something you did had an impact on this...

Disable all the plugins, then enable the chat. If it still fails, uninstall the chat (broken record part - backup your shi*) FOLLOWING THE DIRECTIONS.........

Once you do that, update all the plugins.....meaning manually check if there are any updates, and do so.....

Reinstall the chat................

Report.

[cheat-master30]

I had a problem with even extracting the files from the zip, you had blank files with the same name as the folders in the download which caused it to be nearly impossible to open. To the author; now I've fixed that for myself, do you want a version of the mod download without this problem to attach to this topic instead?