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

[Kingdombuilder]

ok I see i have the images in the wrong place. so where do i find the style directories? Do I upload the folder or just the contents of the folder?

Any help would be appreciated...

I found what I was doing wrong, thanks anyway peeps..

[Raptor]

Originally Posted by fevredsuk

lol and you wonder why your getting high server loads, prune some chat.

tbh we over 3000 members and never pruned chats, this mod brought our server to a stand still and i had to uninstall, works fine again with clean install, but set it to prune chats

where on a very decent dedicated server too

pruned to zero - it still kills the server - and its a quad core with 16gb of ram.

Switched to VSA chatbox - works like a charm

[TeknoSounds]

I'd seen other posts about server load issues and this mod. Personally am thinking of swapping over to vbShout.

[RichieBoy67]

If you tweak refresh settings and active users you should be fine with server load.. I have tried them all and this is the one I came back to. This is the best chatbox/room out there. it is simply awesome..I wouldn't change to Vbshout..no way..

[TeknoSounds]

Can you go a bit more indepth into why you stick with this one vs others? I like pros n cons listings

[RichieBoy67]

As much as I would like to help I just don't have the time right now to go through each chat box. All I can tell you is that I was very frustrated with each one of them and I ended up coming back to this one..

The problems I had initially with this one were really css problems with the style being used.

In reality it only takes a few minutes to install and configure any one of these chat boxes.. I would say to just try each one and see which one you like best. As far as resources go though it really depends on the features and the settings you use. You can really bare-bone this if you want and it doesn't cause much of a problem..

In my opinion this one is the best and it is just my opinion..sorry I can't give you pros and cons..

Thanks,
Richie

[RichieBoy67]

Hey guys, I am fairly certain this can be used to post videos but what about youtube videos?? Is there any way to embed videos??

I have a client that wanted fc integrated into 4.1 and it is a no go.. I was hoping to use this instead. What do you guys think about using this as a FlashChat alternative??

The client also wants to be able to post videos and audio as well..

One other thing--Why doesn't the "BBCOde" button appear in the full page chat window??

Finally--Has anyone written and tweaks or addons for this? If so would you be willing to share with your work with me? I will be glad to do the same..

Thanks,
Richie

[TeknoSounds]

youtube videos do work...just have to allow bbcode and just force type in [youtube]youtubeID[/youtube]

I used FC for a bit, but I didn't like how I couldn't integrate it anywhere else. Like I want my chat on my front portal page. Other than that it was a pretty nice chat overall.

[Mastar]

What is the css that controls the "unhandled reports" tab?

I want to add background to it... its white and the text is white also!

[lafsunlmtd]

We've been having an issue where the chatbox will randomly stop refreshing... Searching the posts, it looks like others have had the same issue, but I haven't seen any real solutions to the problem.

Keeping an eye on it, Firebug tells me it aborted while trying to post to mgc_cb_evo_ajax.php, giving me "AJAX Error: Status = -1: transaction aborted".

For now, my solution is just to add a setInterval up at the top of the mgc_cb_evo_functions.js that checks every minute whether the autorefresh is still going, and if not, restarts it. That's just a patch, but I'll look around and see if I can figure out what the real problem is. If the real solution has been lost in the thread somewhere, please let me know, otherwise I'll post up what I find if I figure something out.