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 yotsume

I use Firefox 2.0.0.12 and yes I dumped the cache. To repeat the errors all you have to do is go to my forum's homepage, login, wait until the chatbox reloads, then navigate to a couple of other pages on the forum, wait till the chat reloads and poof 10+ errors get reported in firebug. This time I attached a screen shot to better help you out with this.

You need to navigate through some pages to encounter that error?? very very odd.

Do you have any other errors before those refresh_chat errors ?

Originally Posted by Keyser Soze

Awesome addon. But it does not seem to be possible to post a "plus" (+) in the chatbox, it gets filtered out. What is the reason for this and how can I fix it? Posting a "minus" (-) is no problem, but + is not possible.... very strange

I have just tried posting a "plus" and it worked. I don't see why it wouldn't.

Is there something particular on your forum (language or so ?) ?

Originally Posted by pewp

the + works fine fore me... Is there anyway to get the /me emote command back?

What do you mean ?

Originally Posted by yotsume

How do you make channels? I don't understand the: Name of the channel image and then it tells me I have not made a command: "Command attached to the channel". Is there some readme on how to make channels?

Also, your whole mod is infected with junk mac files that everyone will end up uploading! .DS_Store You need to remove this junk from your Mod zips!

No I haven't had the time to write a readme.

Writing readme for every part of the chatbox can took a lots of time and I am sorry to say that I don't have that kind of time.

About channel creation, what are the exacts steps, configuration you made ?

For the .DS_Store, being the owner of an iMac and iBook, I can hardly remove those files

These are files automatically added by apple Mac Os X system (hidden files), I can hardly remove them.

Originally Posted by yotsume

Ok sorry for all the posts but I love the chatbox...

How do you use channels and the commands? Ive uploaded and installed a command. Where can we find some readme or manual for making new channels and using the commands. The supplied stuff has no real instructions for these.

Same as for channels explanation, there is no manual.

However, about commands, once you have installed a command, you can see in the chatbox help (? button) few instructions on how to use the command

Some commands works directly through menu items but some must be typed.

Perhaps I will see in an upcoming version if I can make a kinda completion system that would help knowing command syntax when typing a new message.

[mtlcore]

I uninstalled this but I am getting errors like:

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'nbmsgshowchatbox' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054

when trying to update other stuff like user permissions....HELP!

[yotsume]

errors only happen after login and initial navigations. once im in and moving around for a while no error seem to get reported.

no i dont have any errors before but i will double check next time they happen.

[yotsume]

I have noticed that now that I have installed two commends Announcements and Del when I click the little arrow that opens the little menu... If the menu is opened and the chatbox auto refreshes.... the little menu is closed and I can no longer open it with a mouse click. I have to refresh the entire page F5 to get the little menu to work again.

This is very easy to repeat on my forum. It happens every time without fail. For those who have their chatbox refresh rate set to happen quickly this will cause a nice problem for users. Also, if a user tries to open the little menu and it happens to be just before the refresh the menu is closed and they cant open it again until they refresh the entire forum.

Is this a bug? Sure seems like it.

Also, I don't seem to be able to setup the new message alert feature. I am not sure how it should work...?

[mtlcore]

svp pour quoi jai l'error

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'nbmsgshowchatbox' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054

j d'installe la product

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by mtlcore

I uninstalled this but I am getting errors like:

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'nbmsgshowchatbox' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054

when trying to update other stuff like user permissions....HELP!

This is because you haven't uninstalled correctly the previous version of the chatbox...

Please search in this thread question has already been asked many times

Originally Posted by yotsume

errors only happen after login and initial navigations. once im in and moving around for a while no error seem to get reported.

no i dont have any errors before but i will double check next time they happen.

That's strange coz I didn't experienced anything during the time laps when I was online on your forum.

Originally Posted by yotsume

I have noticed that now that I have installed two commends Announcements and Del when I click the little arrow that opens the little menu... If the menu is opened and the chatbox auto refreshes.... the little menu is closed and I can no longer open it with a mouse click. I have to refresh the entire page F5 to get the little menu to work again.

This is very easy to repeat on my forum. It happens every time without fail. For those who have their chatbox refresh rate set to happen quickly this will cause a nice problem for users. Also, if a user tries to open the little menu and it happens to be just before the refresh the menu is closed and they cant open it again until they refresh the entire forum.

Is this a bug? Sure seems like it.

Also, I don't seem to be able to setup the new message alert feature. I am not sure how it should work...?

Yes the bug about the menu has been reported to me already.

About the alert, when active, it makes the channel buttons blink upon new message in the inactive channels.

[Keyser Soze]

Originally Posted by VBDev

I have just tried posting a "plus" and it worked. I don't see why it wouldn't. Is there something particular on your forum (language or so ?) ?

It is a normal vBulletin 3.6.8 Patch Level 2 forum.
Language is German and English, but it also does not work if I switch the language to English. If I try to submit a "+" as message, I only get an error message saying "Error: You must enter a chat!" which means that the plus gets filtered out. There are no other "+"-problems in my forum, only in the chatbox.
You can find the URL of my forum in my profile.

[jayjenxi]

Is it possible for me to not have the chat show up on the forum pages but put a link in navbar to link it to a separate page?

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Keyser Soze

It is a normal vBulletin 3.6.8 Patch Level 2 forum.
Language is German and English, but it also does not work if I switch the language to English. If I try to submit a "+" as message, I only get an error message saying "Error: You must enter a chat!" which means that the plus gets filtered out. There are no other "+"-problems in my forum, only in the chatbox.
You can find the URL of my forum in my profile.

Yes but do you have a test account that would avoid me from registering plz ?

Originally Posted by jayjenxi

Is it possible for me to not have the chat show up on the forum pages but put a link in navbar to link it to a separate page?

Yes you can do that, the link for the chatbox is just : mgc_chatbox.php

[Syria BoY]

Hi VBDev
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