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

[xafltexans]

Just installed this(or atleast i tried to)

i put the stuff in the files folder(not the actual "Files" folder) into my root
i put the stuff in the images>>misc folders (not the actual folders) into the images>>misc under forum under the root.

it doesnt show up on my homepage.
i looked for everything on my user permissions but nothing was there for the shoutbox.

this is what i got when i went to the stylevars



i tried figuring out what it was but i can't. it looks like it says files are missing but i dont see how that would be right. idk.
any help is appreciated

[fortforum]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Activate the PM Command (admincp)
Set the PM command permissions (admincp)
Set the PM in tabs option in the command options part (admincp > settings)

Pretty straightforward

Only thing is, it doesn?t work very well. It shoots the formatting to pieces.

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by xafltexans

Just installed this(or atleast i tried to)

i put the stuff in the files folder(not the actual "Files" folder) into my root
i put the stuff in the images>>misc folders (not the actual folders) into the images>>misc under forum under the root.

it doesnt show up on my homepage.
i looked for everything on my user permissions but nothing was there for the shoutbox.

this is what i got when i went to the stylevars



i tried figuring out what it was but i can't. it looks like it says files are missing but i dont see how that would be right. idk.
any help is appreciated

That REALLY looks like you didn't upload the files in the correct dir.

Whatever root of your forum is Upload the files FROM that path.

[itskerz03]

How do I get this mod to work on a custom skin/template? My default template is a custom one. I have messed with all the permissions and other options. I still can not get the chat box to show up. I have uploaded all the files and installed the product twice. The chatbox controls show up correctly in the Admincp. Just no chatbox on my forumhome page

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by itskerz03

How do I get this mod to work on a custom skin/template? My default template is a custom one. I have messed with all the permissions and other options. I still can not get the chat box to show up. I have uploaded all the files and installed the product twice. The chatbox controls show up correctly in the Admincp. Just no chatbox on my forumhome page

Usergroups. Enable it.

[mirko185]

i use this version of plugin for more than a year on my website, www.hwmaster.com , recently i've upgraded the php version to 5.3 , and now the chatbox doesnt work.

i've already tried to unistall and reinstall the plugin, but still doesn't work. any solutions? Is that the php 5.3 version doesn't support it?

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by mirko185

i use this version of plugin for more than a year on my website, www.hwmaster.com , recently i've upgraded the php version to 5.3 , and now the chatbox doesnt work.

i've already tried to unistall and reinstall the plugin, but still doesn't work. any solutions? Is that the php 5.3 version doesn't support it?

It's not PHP that's the issue. MGC's site is running PHP 5.3.

Enable php debug and find the errors.

Or use firefox error console and post the error.

[mirko185]

[Ranger187]

What version is vbulletin?

[Bernd Glasstett]

We use the chatbox since we changed to vBulletin 4. Here are some feature requests:

- I would like to show a certain channel as standard-channel in a certain forum. Seems that this isn't possible, as the standard-channel always shows up first.
- We would love to setup channels in order to only have a certain amount of users in it.
- We would love to have the option to give voice to users. Right now everyone can talk who is in the channel. But this isn't so good if you would like to set up an interview-chat.

If any of this is already possible, please tell me how. I haven't been able to find anything about it.

Bugs:
- Seems that the archive doesn't properly display older chat-messages. We have almost 1.000 chatmessages, but I cannot display them:
http://www.comicforum.de/mgc_cb_evo....id=0&dlimit=-1
Version is 3.2.3 on vBulletin 4.2.0 Patch Level 2
- Seems that the display on other channels than the standardchannel doesn't work right, as it looks rather broken:
http://www.comicforum.de/mgc_cb_evo....id=1&dlimit=14
an analysis showed up that the CSS isn't loaded.