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

[giaguaro]

hi, i am new to vbulletin. i have some problems in undertanding how it integrate with the board..
Thanks

EDIT: i worked on this, i found everything. I wonder why the 4.x compatibilty is not shown in the product page.
Now i am looking if it works

[giaguaro]

not working:

Warning: require_once([path]/mgc_cb_evo/classes/class_core.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(103) : eval()'d code on line 4

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/var/www/jtv.cc/forum/mgc_cb_evo/classes/class_core.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/jtv.cc/forum/includes/class_bootstrap.php(103) : eval()'d code on line 4

[Zabulus]

Originally Posted by Zabulus

Is there any code or way for the bot to respond with a hyper link? I have tried everything I can think of

Anyone?

[PJSkiboy]

Originally Posted by azcs bryan

Thank you so much! this did the trick, and even improved the way it looked in the browser that was working!

Guess I knew something after all, lol. Glad I could help.

Originally Posted by giaguaro

hi, i am new to vbulletin. i have some problems in undertanding how it integrate with the board..
Thanks

EDIT: i worked on this, i found everything. I wonder why the 4.x compatibilty is not shown in the product page.
Now i am looking if it works

It definitely works. I'm running 4.0.8 at the moment and it works flawlessly.

Originally Posted by giaguaro

not working:

Warning: require_once([path]/mgc_cb_evo/classes/class_core.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(103) : eval()'d code on line 4

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/var/www/jtv.cc/forum/mgc_cb_evo/classes/class_core.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/jtv.cc/forum/includes/class_bootstrap.php(103) : eval()'d code on line 4

1. What version of VB4 are you running?

2. Did you perform the template updates or did you simply try importing the product?

3. Do you have a link to your homepage to see what it's doing?

Originally Posted by Zabulus

Anyone?

Sorry, Zabulus. I know nothing about bots as I do not use them on my website.

[giaguaro]

1. What version of VB4 are you running?

2. Did you perform the template updates or did you simply try importing the product?

3. Do you have a link to your homepage to see what it's doing?

1 - vb 4.1.2

2 - i imported it (i didnt install it before)

3 - cant link: if i activate the products, it say

not working:

Warning: require_once([path]/mgc_cb_evo/classes/class_core.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(103) : eval()'d code on line 4

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/var/www/jtv.cc/forum/mgc_cb_evo/classes/class_core.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/jtv.cc/forum/includes/class_bootstrap.php(103) : eval()'d code on line 4

Perhaps i have to setup something in the OPTION (Admin Cp) ?

[l3asturd]

Can anyone help me? I'm running vb4.1.2 with MGC chatbox latest version but whenever I enable the mod I get the following message:

Warning: fetch_template() calls should be replaced by the vB_Template class. Template name: Display_Visitors_User in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 4097

This is the same message I get when installing MGC chatbox, VSA chatbox, or almost any mod that adds content to my forum.php page. Disabling the mods returns the forum to normal.

Now, normally I would just say the mods aren't compatible with 4.1.2, but I have had several users tell me it works fine with their vb4.1.2. I don't know what is wrong with my forum. I've been searching for a solution for weeks!

[PJSkiboy]

Originally Posted by giaguaro

1 - vb 4.1.2

2 - i imported it (i didnt install it before)

3 - cant link: if i activate the products, it say

not working:

Warning: require_once([path]/mgc_cb_evo/classes/class_core.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(103) : eval()'d code on line 4

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/var/www/jtv.cc/forum/mgc_cb_evo/classes/class_core.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/jtv.cc/forum/includes/class_bootstrap.php(103) : eval()'d code on line 4

Perhaps i have to setup something in the OPTION (Admin Cp) ?

First thing I'd ask is did you follow everything in the readme file step by step?

Follow the following install instructions: For a fresh install

Upload the content of the Files folder in your forum root.

You can't just dump the "Files" folder in your forum root. You have to match up folder for folder what's in the Files folder to the corresponding folders in your forums directory. (Sorry to be so elementary, but this is often the biggest misunderstanding for beginning mod-ers.)

In your forum root directory /forums , you should copy two files there:

1. mgc_cb_evo.php
2. mgc_cb_evo_ajax.php

When you look in the Files folder, you'll find other folders.

1. admincp - the contents of this folder should be copied to the admincp/ folder on your server. not the folder itself, just the contents into the admincp folder already there.
2. includes - the contents of this folder should be copied to the includes/ folder on your server. not the folder itself, just the contents into the includes folder already there.
3. mgc_cb_evo - this entire folder should be copied to your forum root.

Let me know if you understand this stuff and I need to stop. If not, let me know, and I'll break it down further. To me, your problem sounds like it is not finding files where it expects them to be located.

Upload the content of the Images in each of your forum styles directories.
Log into the admin control panel of your forum and import the product located in the Product folder.
Go in the Download/Upload item of the Language manager menu and then:
Select the English language file from the Lang folder.
Select the forum language to overwrite.
Set the Ignore language version option to YES.
Launch the upload.
Installation is finished, you just have to set the permissions of your usergroups so that they can see the chatbox, configure the chatbox settings, manage the available commands and if necessary add channels.

If you are 100% sure you've got everything copied to the right place, I'll investigate further, but let me know this much for now.

[giaguaro]

Go in the Download/Upload item of the Language manager menu and then:
Select the English language file from the Lang folder.
Select the forum language to overwrite.
Set the Ignore language version option to YES.
Launch the upload.
Installation is finished, you just have to set the permissions of your usergroups so that they can see the chatbox, configure the chatbox settings, manage the available commands and if necessary add channels.

this is what i havent done: i dont understand where to go for this. There is no choice in the Admin CP.
Dont know if this can produce the error.

Download i double checked: it's ok.

[PJSkiboy]

Originally Posted by l3asturd

Can anyone help me? I'm running vb4.1.2 with MGC chatbox latest version but whenever I enable the mod I get the following message:

Warning: fetch_template() calls should be replaced by the vB_Template class. Template name: Display_Visitors_User in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 4097

This is the same message I get when installing MGC chatbox, VSA chatbox, or almost any mod that adds content to my forum.php page. Disabling the mods returns the forum to normal.

Now, normally I would just say the mods aren't compatible with 4.1.2, but I have had several users tell me it works fine with their vb4.1.2. I don't know what is wrong with my forum. I've been searching for a solution for weeks!

I just checked my function.php file in the includes directory and my function.php file only has 2137 lines of code in it. Yours is saying you've got at least 4097 if I'm understanding correctly. *Someone correct me if i'm an idiot, please.*

Sounds like you've got some major additions to that function.php file that are messing with some calls in the main mod .php file. Only a guess.

[PJSkiboy]

Originally Posted by giaguaro

this is what i havent done: i dont understand where to go for this. There is no choice in the Admin CP.
Dont know if this can produce the error.

Download i double checked: it's ok.

1. In the admin cp, left hand side below "Styles and Templates" you 'should' see "Languages and Phrases." Click on that to expand it.

2. Fourth selection down should be, "Download / Upload Languages", select that.

3. The screen will be split into two sections. The upper section is "Download" and the lower half is "Import Language XML File", we are going to work with the lower half.

4. First option in bold is "EITHER upload the XML file....." and on the right hand side is the choose file button. Click on that and navigate to the 'Lang' folder in the list of folders for the mod. Assuming you are wanting the chatbox to work in English, select the 'English' XML file there. (You should see the 'Not_updated' folder and two DS_store files as well.) Only other file in that folder should be the 'English' file.

5. Skip down to overwrite language option, click on the dropdown menu and select English (US).

6. Skip down to 'Ignore Language Version" and change that radio button from 'no' to 'yes'.

7. Click on the 'Import' button. (and cross your fingers)

Let me know what you get.

Disclaimer: This is how I installed this mod on my forum and I had no problems with everything displaying in English. I can't guarantee what this does to your forums, just sharing with you what works in mine.

Oh and don't forget to set your usergroup permissions or else your standard registered users won't be able to use it.