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

[Jeweetog]

Originally Posted by solidlink

im not quite sure of how do we use the separate channels and what does the channel images mean......... I activated it but it doesnt show.

btw, is there anyway we can add in more than 1 chatbox? I would want 1 below the forums..

Yes thats possible!

Display and position ---> Ids of the forums in which the chatbox shall be displayed

Hope this helps!

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by gmerin

The only key point is the market because that's where the money is: if you don't want to support the largest target market because of a pseudo ideological bias (claiming machines that run unix, - apples including iPhones, run unix, are not computers), someone else will. And since I run paid licenses for all my software (including Evo) on all my boards that's where our money will go.

Also you're making a distinction where none exists: what is a phone and what is a computer? The distinction between the two is so old-fashioned, so 1980s, that it no longer exists. Back on the early 1980s an Apple II was just about your only choice for a PC. Now the Apple II CPU runs home light switches. Is it no longer a computer? The distinction is unreal and moot.

I asked for iPhone support; if you doesn't want to support it then I'll simply pay someone else to. Philosphy doesn't matter.

Thanks for the history lesson. Unfortunately, I could care less. I am not the designer, I'm only supporting what's left. If you want to preach or pay someone else, cheers to you.

Originally Posted by SDN

I followed the instructions and got an error, and I had to disable the mod. Can someone please give me easier instructions that I can work with? Please.

SDN, they are in English. If you don't understand English then I am not the one to help translate them. If you need help uninstalling it, I can walk you through doing this, or do it for you. PM me if you need further help. Thanks.

[Neptun]

i hope we will get a relase of the chatbox for vb4 and vb4 suite too - i love this addon .... i hope we will get soon a update to the vb4

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by Neptun

i hope we will get a relase of the chatbox for vb4 and vb4 suite too - i love this addon .... i hope we will get soon a update to the vb4

Read this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=5967

[gmerin]

Originally Posted by Ranger187

Thanks for the history lesson. Unfortunately, I could care less. I am not the designer, I'm only supporting what's left. If you want to preach or pay someone else, cheers to you..

obviously lessons are lost on you as nothing seems to penetrate your arrogance. This is ok as there are plenty of others interested in making money. Good luck with your career at at mcdonalds.

[exyuteam]

Originally Posted by Ranger187

Development is underway for the 4.0 version. No timeframe, just letting you all know it's moving forward.

Originally Posted by Ranger187

Just checked and the Donation system and subscription system is almost converted to 4.0. So I'd start getting giddy...He's not said anything else on the chat yet but I'm thinking it might be a couple weeks off.

Great news... I just waiting this hack to upgrade my forum.... Good luck and greetings for developers.... :up:

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by gmerin

obviously lessons are lost on you as nothing seems to penetrate your arrogance. This is ok as there are plenty of others interested in making money. Good luck with your career at at mcdonalds.

Because I'm providing free support I'm arrogant. Got it. Thanks buddy. But you made 1 critical mistake. You reply with arrogance.

Oh, and I own 2 houses, 3 cars a motorcycle and I can still afford fries. Good luck on insulting people.

Originally Posted by exyuteam

Great news... I just waiting this hack to upgrade my forum.... Good luck and greetings for developers.... :up:

Yeah, I can't wait. We are expecting the Donation system hack to be released to testers in the next 2 weeks. Once that's out, the chat should follow shortly after. I'll keep you all posted to it's release.

[Jeweetog]

@Ranger187,

Do you have anything in your loglist?

MGC Charbox EVO -> View logs -> Loglist

Im still trying to figure out why I can't save the chats.

Also, do you happen to know if its possible to make a cronjob for this?
Saving the chats automatically after (for example) a day?

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by Jeweetog

@Ranger187,

Do you have anything in your loglist?

MGC Charbox EVO -> View logs -> Loglist

Im still trying to figure out why I can't save the chats.

Also, do you happen to know if its possible to make a cronjob for this?
Saving the chats automatically after (for example) a day?

Jeweetog,

Sorry, currently I don't have this installed as ALL my forums are 4.0. I don't think I *ever* viewed it that way. Normally I'd view the archive by clicking the archive link. You can set it to not purge. I'm not sure why you would want to save the chats as that would make an extremely large and *risk corrupting data* when it becomes excessively large. You can export them by clicking the export link. You could just do an iMACROS function from Firefox that would do it.

But I will pass your suggestion to the lead developer.

[Ranger187]

FEATURE REQUEST FOR VBULLETIN 4.0 VERSION OF THE CHAT.

vBAdvanced with forum in separate dir compatibility
Create a small version of the template for vba side column use
Built-in vBSeo compatibility
Report chat function
BF IBProarcade plugin : New tournament created notification / Tournament has started notification
Possibility to have chatbox in a popup
Possibility to view guests ip and ban them from the chatbox
NOTIFICATION: new registration
NOTIFICATION: thank you hack from Abe1
Different sound for notifications and chats
Channel selection through dropdown menu
NOTIFICATION : User albums updates
Cronjob or some function to automatically export the chats to a local directory

If you have more requests let me know and I'll pass it on.