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]

Originally Posted by legacy123

Is there a way to get the [url] tag into the chatbox?

It's already possible, you just have to activate an option

[Swordman844555]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Hu that's really strange, do you have a custom vB style ?

Yes!

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Swordman844555

Yes!

Hum might be that, please send me test account to your forum by pm so that I can check out on myself.

[Trumpetrhapsody]

When the sidebar is enabled, it squishes the shoutbox and goes next to it instead of the shoutbox being the full width of the forum and the sidebar going underneath it. Any way to fix this?

EDIT: Nevermind, moving the:

{vb:raw template_hook.forumhome_above_forums}

from above:

<ol id="forums" class="floatcontainer">

to above:

<vb:if condition="$show['sidebar']">

fixed it.



DOUBLE EDIT: Sure could use an importer for the new VSa Chatbox (previously Cyb) version 3.1.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Trumpetrhapsody

DOUBLE EDIT: Sure could use an importer for the new VSa Chatbox (previously Cyb) version 3.1.

This is planned for next version.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Swordman844555

Yes!

There is an issue in your style, by inspecting elements with Google Chrome I found out that one is causing issue :

* html .floatcontainer,
.formcontrols .blockrow,
dl.stats {
    height:1%;
}

This causes the height of the lines to be very small and all messed up.

About the bootstrap error, apparently it's an issue of in the mgc_cb_evo/class/class_core.php file, try that code, search for :

PHP Code:

if (!empty($unserialized_params)) 


Replace by :

if (!empty($unserialized_params) && is_array($unserialized_params))

Cl?ment

[Erica1977]

Is there anyway thought to turn off the option in usercp edit options so it dont have the Chatbox options : General Options , Show The chatbox yes or no i checked in general option in MGC and checked everything else in there and user group permission and there's nothing that can turn it off from user option would like that to not be there.

[Chalex4]

Hey VBDev, I must say that your MGC chatbox has always been my favourite.

Up until now I've been using the VSa shoutbox on vb4, but I want to make the switch back to this now. However, on my site: http://www.atkcommunity.com/ I only need the shoutbox on the vbadvanced homepage.

Is there anyway to use the new MGC shoutbox with vbadvanced? Someone made a mod for the vb3 version but that broke a while ago. All the other shoutboxes out there have some sort of hook that I can put into a template to make them display, but I want to use your one!!! Please say you'll do this .

[inciarco]

VBDev, in this Last Version did You Managed to Correct the Counters Update Bug I Reported a Few Weeks Ago?

When I Update the Counters, and See the MGC ChatBox Archive/History I see Amonge the 10 Best Chatters, Users Who's Chats I've Deleted.

I Can See For MySelf 691 Chats and I've Deleted Most Of My Chats (Currently Are 90 Chats on My ShoutBox, so the Counter is Not Well Calculated).

I Hope You Can Fix That Bug.

My Best Regards.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Erica1977

Is there anyway thought to turn off the option in usercp edit options so it dont have the Chatbox options : General Options , Show The chatbox yes or no i checked in general option in MGC and checked everything else in there and user group permission and there's nothing that can turn it off from user option would like that to not be there.

To hide some, you have to go in the Chats formatting options > Choice of the formatting options which can be selected in the user control panel and disable all.

That will however left the ON/OFF switch.

Originally Posted by Chalex4

Hey VBDev, I must say that your MGC chatbox has always been my favourite.

Up until now I've been using the VSa shoutbox on vb4, but I want to make the switch back to this now. However, on my site: http://www.atkcommunity.com/ I only need the shoutbox on the vbadvanced homepage.

Is there anyway to use the new MGC shoutbox with vbadvanced? Someone made a mod for the vb3 version but that broke a while ago. All the other shoutboxes out there have some sort of hook that I can put into a template to make them display, but I want to use your one!!! Please say you'll do this .

Have you tried using the Display chatbox on defined pages in a variable set of options ?

Originally Posted by inciarco

VBDev, in this Last Version did You Managed to Correct the Counters Update Bug I Reported a Few Weeks Ago?

When I Update the Counters, and See the MGC ChatBox Archive/History I see Amonge the 10 Best Chatters, Users Who's Chats I've Deleted.

I Can See For MySelf 691 Chats and I've Deleted Most Of My Chats (Currently Are 90 Chats on My ShoutBox, so the Counter is Not Well Calculated).

I Hope You Can Fix That Bug.

My Best Regards.

So you mean the counter doesn't update as it should be ?

Try that : Open the admincp/mgc_cb_evo.php file and search for :

PHP Code:

if (empty($vbulletin->GPC['start'])) 


Replace it by :

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->GPC['start'] == 0)