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

[fxwoody]

ok, i tried to find some info regarding the display location in the different templates but ....way to many !!
Now, my options are set to show every where in the forum but i don't really like that it is attached under the toolmenu in threadlist.

So, is there a way to move it over the toolmenu?
tks

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by Lombardo

Tried fixing it with a .htaccess file but it didn't help.

Has NOTHING to do with htaccess files. Has to do with MOD_SECURITY.

[vanquish.securi]

Crashed the from page of the site. SQL errors. Removed product, and fixed the issue. vB 3.1.6

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by vanquish.securi

Crashed the from page of the site. SQL errors. Removed product, and fixed the issue. vB 3.1.6

Makes sense. This is only compatible as far back as 3.6.

[fxwoody]

Does anyone has an idea on how to change the chatbox's place with in a page!
It's under the toolbar menu and new post button and it shouldn't be there!
I tried a few things but with no good results

Can't even get an answer from ForumCoding website!!!!

[TeknoSounds]

fxwoody, under the AdminCP->MGC Chatbox Evo->Display and positioning
can change forumhome and forumdisplay and threads, also you can set it to be defined using a variable and you just place the variable where you want it to appear. You will need to turn off the auto placement options (first ones mentioned) if you wish to change the location on one of those pages.

[munkfish]

Hello,

Huge thanks for this plugin, it is in use on our forum and working very well by and large.

Big +1 for the option to have reported chats made available to all moderators rather than just admins as it is presently. As requested above, it would be great to have similar functionality to the core vB 'report post/pm' button whereby when you click on 'Report chat' on a chat in the chatbox, the chat is reported in the same way as for reported posts - ie an email is sent out to all moderators and a 'reported chat' thread created on the forum. Hopefully it's possible to use the same core reporting code in the vb codebase.

One important thing regarding that option though if it is implemented - can the reported chat please be an exact copy of the original chat that was reported.

As an example if users click on 'report chat' and then the user that wrote the chat edits it or deletes it after it's reported, at the moment the 'report chat' admin control panel (ACP) feature is not much use because it just retrieves the latest version of the chat from the db and displays that in the admin panel on the 'reported chats' ACP page (so by and large it will just appear to be an innocent chat, or worse if the chat was deleted the chat entry will be completely blank in the ACP). In the case that someone reports a chat it would be best to have a verbatim copy of the original chat that was reported otherwise it makes it very easy to avoid your chat being read again as it was originally written (even if users don't know about this exploit/hole, generally if they've written something wrong or bad they will just automatically edit it anyway to protect themselves, making the original chat disappear for all time).


On a similar note, another great addition would be the ability to have a history for each chat - so for example if someone edits or deletes a chat, a copy of the previous chat is stored on the server and is accessible when you click on that chat's history in the archive page drop down list next to the chat (perhaps if the chat was deleted have the chat content ghosted out in the main chat entry in the archive table?). I can appreciate this probably isn't massively required and must admit myself it would only be used occasionally on our chatbox (although we had an incident the other night where someone went into meltdown and said a lot of seriously litigious things but then deleted or edited all their chats before any of the mods could see what was said and we can't really switch editing of chats off for one reason or another! Also because of the 'bug' in the chat report page above, none of the reported chats were visible because the user had deleted all of his chats before a mod could ban him!).


Bug report: Channel names listed incorrectly in archive page navigation drop down lists
In the archive page, if you have more than one additional channel then any non-default channels are displayed with the same channel name as the last channel that was created in the navigation drop down list. For example:



As you can see above, the channels are named:

• General channel archives (the default channel)
• Channel Poker Chat archives
• Channel Poker Chat archives

In fact there is only one General Poker Chat channel - however we do also have a 'Mods Chat' channel as a 3rd channel, but that isn't listed and is instead a duplicate of the Poker Chat listing (just to confirm I do have permissions as the logged in user to view that channel and it's archives).

Selecting either of the Poker Chat options ^ does just list the Poker chat archives (ie it isn't a case of one of the labels just being incorrectly displayed).

The 'Mods Chat' archive IS viewable by manually editing the GET options / URL in the addressbar (ie /mgc_cb_evo.php?do=view_archives&channel_id=1).

I don't know if it makes a difference but the Poker Chat channel (channelid=1) was created after the Mods Chat channel (channelid=2) and then the order of the channels was changed so Poker is display order 1 and Mods is display order 9. Both channels are restricted to different usergroups.

Looks to me like it might just be a simple looping error in the codebase perhaps?

Anyway, thanks again for a great product, keep up the great work.

[fxwoody]

Originally Posted by TeknoSounds

fxwoody, under the AdminCP->MGC Chatbox Evo->Display and positioning
can change forumhome and forumdisplay and threads, also you can set it to be defined using a variable and you just place the variable where you want it to appear. You will need to turn off the auto placement options (first ones mentioned) if you wish to change the location on one of those pages.

i did try this but with no good results!

It displays on every pages alright but the emplacement is not where it should!

Either i don't understand or i am totally lost with the control options since we have both 3.8 & 4.xx in the same window to work with!

loll i guess i need some pics to put whit this tut my friend
hehehe my brain is fried these days

[fxwoody]

does anyone ever ended up with a javascript problem when trying to get the smilies from the window???

Not sure what happened but i can't get them to show in the chatbox anymore?!?

Any clues?

[Ranger187]

FX, can you tell us your VB version,

MGC version

PHP version and if it's hosted? I might be able to help you tomorrow. You can PM me directly.

Also a quick search found this (don't know if it's relevant so make sure to backup your dB BEFORE YOU RUN ANY QUERY!)

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=6448