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

[RokuDaMerlin]

Originally Posted by Pander23

Sorry for the long waittime to reply.

Before this Evo version, my browser runs very fast. If i install the evo, my browser (firefox) runs very slowely and lags... It?s not only at my pc, my members have the same problems... I think it?s to much java? Sorry, i haven?t no idea, you?re the coder.

But the version is very good.

regards

Pander23

my browser (firefox) and my browser work ever fast + this evo version ..
the chat box make my firefox not slow ..

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by eddie200x

I've looked throughout this thread for a answer to this question but - how do you change the default color of the text??

In your usercp options

Originally Posted by redlabour

Bugs in 0.3.0 :

1. Translationbugs in German Translation - some Options in AdminCP and Stickyfunction in Chatbox are still french.

2. In AdminCP the links on the left Adminbar are broken. Only the Links in the upper Pulldownmenu are working and taking directly to MGC Chatbox Options.

1. Chatbox translation is not uptodate (this is why it's called old_german).

2. I think this is the same problem

Originally Posted by Pander23

Sorry for the long waittime to reply.

Before this Evo version, my browser runs very fast. If i install the evo, my browser (firefox) runs very slowely and lags... It?s not only at my pc, my members have the same problems... I think it?s to much java? Sorry, i haven?t no idea, you?re the coder.

But the version is very good.

regards

Pander23

Hum, this version shall not use more resources.

When does it lags ?

[redlabour]

Originally Posted by VBDev

1. Chatbox translation is not uptodate (this is why it's called old_german).

OK - it is not clear for German Users because we have some changes in our Writingrules in the last Years. So the old Rules are allways described as "Old German" and the new Rules as "New German" ...... NO JOKE

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by redlabour

OK - it is not clear for German Users because we have some changes in our Writingrules in the last Years. So the old Rules are allways described as "Old German" and the new Rules as "New German" ...... NO JOKE

Oh ok

I will see with captainslater to see when he has the time to work on the translation uptade.

[RokuDaMerlin]

vbdev can we make msn or icq ? i have a problem ... =/

can you for me so make that the chat box the smilies from a special folder from my server load ?

i have to this a little problem ..

i have become from a artist special emotions ( 130x130 ) and i will this makre on my forum and the little animations emotions to my chat box ... can you this make ... or cost this work money ?

[buurman]

Think this chatbox is great and voted on it for MOTM!

I noticed that the chat background for the chat (the inner window) is default ALT2?
Where do I change this one only to ALT1?

Seems to be in a php file? cant find this one in the templates.

Also, what to change to get a border around the chat window?

Thx in advance, love it! great work!

[sturdy]

How to fix this error while updating the usergroups ?
I uninstalled this hack some days before :

Datenbankfehler in vBulletin 3.6.8:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE vb_usergroup SET

### UPDATE QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
	`title` = 'Moderatoren',
[...]
	`mgccustomusergroupperms` = '0',
[...]

MySQL-Fehler : Unknown column 'mgccustomusergroupperms' in 'field list'

I also just deleted some xml- and php-files which were associated with this modification.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by RokuDaMerlin

vbdev can we make msn or icq ? i have a problem ... =/

can you for me so make that the chat box the smilies from a special folder from my server load ?

i have to this a little problem ..

i have become from a artist special emotions ( 130x130 ) and i will this makre on my forum and the little animations emotions to my chat box ... can you this make ... or cost this work money ?

As I responded to you by pm, what you mean is that these smilies don't show ?

You have specific folders set ?

Originally Posted by buurman

Think this chatbox is great and voted on it for MOTM!

I noticed that the chat background for the chat (the inner window) is default ALT2?
Where do I change this one only to ALT1?

Seems to be in a php file? cant find this one in the templates.

Also, what to change to get a border around the chat window?

Thx in advance, love it! great work!

Are you sure it's in the mgc_cb_evo_chatbit template ?

There shall already be a border around the chatbox itself as it's using the border css class.

Originally Posted by sturdy

How to fix this error while updating the usergroups ?
I uninstalled this hack some days before :

Datenbankfehler in vBulletin 3.6.8:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE vb_usergroup SET

### UPDATE QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
    `title` = 'Moderatoren',
[...]
    `mgccustomusergroupperms` = '0',
[...]

MySQL-Fehler : Unknown column 'mgccustomusergroupperms' in 'field list'

I also just deleted some xml- and php-files which were associated with this modification.

This is not a problem with MGC Chatbox Evo but previous version MGC Chatbox.

You have not followed correctly the instructions to uninstall it when installing the MGC Chatbox Evo.

To correct that problem check that you don't have anymore a chatbox related file in the includes/xml directory, if you found one, remove it.

Then activate the debug mode on your forum and rebuild bitfields manually.

[buurman]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Are you sure it's in the mgc_cb_evo_chatbit template ?

Ahum, yes it was.. as value alt$alt, I changed this to alt1... taste is a strange thing huh

Thx for the extreme fast reply!!

[VBDev]

Yes it was like that coz there is an option to alternate shouts background using alt1 and alt2