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 snoopytas

Has anyone extended the 'bot to handle a smart response engine?

i.e. has anyone implemented an Eliza like 'bot?

Nope but I am planning on.

Originally Posted by snoopytas

I added this simple plugin to get fortune quotes (you need fortune installed on your Linux server).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<plugins>
    <plugin active="1" executionorder="5" product="mgc_cb_evo">
        <title>Fortune Quote</title>
        <hookname>mgc_cb_evo_dm_mgccbchat_botend</hookname>
        <phpcode><![CDATA[if ($notfound AND (strcasecmp('quote',$this->raw_chat) == 0))
{
    $this->bot_answer = shell_exec('fortune');
    $notfound = 0;
}
]]></phpcode>
    </plugin>
</plugins>

Interesting one, might include that in the next release

Originally Posted by MrHyde

Any Chance to get the version fully running for 3.8.7? Would be nice to know, if you can fix the command/action section. Thanks!

Of course, in the next release I'll look into it.

Originally Posted by oldblackguy

For some reason when I installed I get these red x boxes in chat. Can someone help me. Besides that it works great.

Originally Posted by Moncha

Depending ont eh path of the images, you may have a problem with it showing user avatars. Take a look at the properties of the image and see what's missing

I think this might be the menu_open.gif file, it has dissapear from vB archive in latest version apparently. You have to retrieve it from the previous vB version and put it in the misc dir.

[exxxir]

Hi

I installed this plugin but loading is very slow for example loading general channel take up to 5 minutes!!! we using litespeed and server load is fine always.

can you help me?

[manny91]

If I try to click on the arrow next to a post, after the update there is no background shown and it looks not as usual.

Does anyone have an idea? The same if I try to delete a posted message:


What I found as well, the fetch_userinfo_query.php as only an <? instead of an <?php. It seams, that's the only one script with an <?... is there a certain reason?

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by exxxir

Hi

I installed this plugin but loading is very slow for example loading general channel take up to 5 minutes!!! we using litespeed and server load is fine always.

can you help me?

Well hard to say, noone reported this.

Have you got any errors in your php log for example ?

Originally Posted by manny91

If I try to click on the arrow next to a post, after the update there is no background shown and it looks not as usual.

Does anyone have an idea? The same if I try to delete a posted message:


What I found as well, the fetch_userinfo_query.php as only an <? instead of an <?php. It seams, that's the only one script with an <?... is there a certain reason?

No it should be <?php though it's not a reason for errors.

Check if you have javascript errors in firefox console ?

[oshrizak]

536 Pages to read through WOW but This is a Great product Just I cant get some things to work, Like I have chosen to activate the DoJo javascript files from both google and from the server and to no avail I dont see anything, Also says you can Create Channels, Where I have looked in each Option in the ACP under MGC and I dont see an area to create them. Also Bot does not show in channel any commands to activate it?

any help would be greatly appreciated Sorry if this has been answered

[manny91]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Check if you have javascript errors in firefox console ?

I checked it, but I can't see any errors. Further I searched by Google and found the same problems on other boards, too: http://retroids.com/site/mgc_cb_evo.php?do=view_chatbox and http://www.bowltech.com/forums/mgc_c...o=view_chatbox

[oshrizak]

Durrrrrrrr I cant believe I missed it but when I upgraded the Forums today I now see the MGC options in the ACP on the left. Eaither I was BLIND or I just didnt see them So forget my part on the channels

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by manny91

I checked it, but I can't see any errors. Further I searched by Google and found the same problems on other boards, too: http://retroids.com/site/mgc_cb_evo.php?do=view_chatbox and http://www.bowltech.com/forums/mgc_c...o=view_chatbox

Yeah apparently it's a problem of css not taken into account

I'll have to check it out but I can't tell you when exactly

[exxxir]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Well hard to say, noone reported this.

Have you got any errors in your php log for example ?

here is error log:

[07-Apr-2012 11:17:58] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function can_view() on a non-object in /home/*********/forum/mgc_cb_evo_ajax.php on line 127

[manny91]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Yeah apparently it's a problem of css not taken into account

I'll have to check it out but I can't tell you when exactly

Okay Thanks!

Edit: On the home of the board it is working correctly. But if I put it into an own page (mgc_cb_evo.php?do=view_chatbox), the css is not in the header.
dojo/1.6.0/dijit/themes/claro/claro.css and css.php?[...]sheet=mgc_cb_evo.css are missed.