Chat Modifications - MGC Chatbox (with AJAX)

Last version - MGC Chatbox Evo available : here

Description

When I had left the vBulletin world, I was in the past the co-author of a little chatbox (shoutbox), very well known in the vBulletin world.
This chatbox had been developed by Svaliotti (known as Poseidon on vb.org) for vB2 in the past and I had made the porterage (with is authorisation as we were both members of the same french non-official support forum) and the improvement for vB3.

It is thus normal that in my return in the vBulletin world, I begin by getting down to this hack. Even if several versions of chatbox are already present in the vBulletin world, I said to myself that it would be a good thing to make a made in France.

Naturally, I don't deal with a "copy" version of the other chatbox, I have any coded at the beginning (it was preferable because the front code wasn't so clean any more), and I integrated a good quantity of very interesting features.

New version features

The new version contains all the features from the previous version. Description of these versions can be found in Sofia's post hereabove (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1257510&postcount=3).

Modifications from previous version are the following :

• 1.5 :
  • Fixed bugs :
    • Chatbox is shown two times in full page mode when the Display on all pages under the navbar option is selected.
    • "Fermer" is not in a sentence.
    • Overflow problem with Netscape.
    • Uppercase transformed to lowercase in the PM channel.
    • The ban cron debans user indefinitly banned.
    • Chatbox continuously loading on some forums.
    • Inactivity and guests problem.
    • Team icon blinking is not working properly.
    • Coma error in the who is online.
    • 2 spaces instead of one between the date and the time.
  • New functionnalities :
    • Option to deactivate the random smilies.
    • Option to deactivate the automatic PM sending when banning a user.
    • New permission to allow or not the downloading of shouts.
    • Option to specify the name under which unregistered users shouts appear.
    • Syntax change for the /ban, /ignore, /del, /pm commands : Possibility to use them with the username or the userid (For more information about the new syntax, check the help button in the chatbox).
  • Removed functionnalities :
    • vBAdvanced integration [TEMPORARLY] => See this for integration with this version https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=163628

This hack is very light in term of queries : only one for every recharging / refreshment of the chatbox and 5 for the statistics in the load of the page if you actiate them. If you don't activate advanced options of course as stated aside each in the acp

Installation

Read the file "Installation" in the pack.

Once the installation is ended, go in usergroups and edit permissions to see the Chatbox.

By default, no group has access to the chatbox.

Screenshots

The screenshots are in french as I have made it on an online website which is in french. Don't hesitate to give me new one if you want in english

They are up to date of 1.3 version.

See the following post : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1292136&postcount=559

User manual

Coming soon ...

Copyright

This hack is under copyright MGC (Mtor&Grog Corporation) 2007-forever and was developed for vBulletin-Resources.com & vb-hacks.org. Its redistribution on another forum that vbulletin-ressources.com, vb-hacks.org or vbulletin.org are prohibited without aggreement of the authors!

Evolutions and improvements

This sixth version of the chatbox is already very complete, but like each product, its evolution depends on all. Then don't hesitate especially to share your ideas of improvements so that we can improve even more this chatbox.

Languages

Actually available :

1. French
2. English
3. Arabic [Translator : alessai]
4. German [Translator : captainslater]
5. Vietnamese [Translator : Anhyeu12000]
6. Turkish [Translator : neutralizer and bocek]
7. Spanish [Translator : obmob] [TO BE UPDATED FOR 1.5]

To be available [Translation in progress] :

1. Bosnian [Translator : Benjaminbih]

[FONT='Calibri','sans-serif']For the translators : phrases with version number 1.5 in the English language file are the one that have been modified or added in the new version so you should probably find the modification for your language file easily.[/font]

Contact me if you want to participate and add your own country language file

Support

Several possible problems are explained in the file "Read Me"
Chatbox in iBProarcade and vBadvanced CMPS

See the readme file for iBProarcade.

For vbadvanced, a module is available here : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=163628.

FAQ

Q: I installed the chatbox but it doesn't display
R: Check if you have allowed users (permissions in usergroups)

Q: I see shouts but in the collapsed chatbox
R: You can specify number of shouts in the collapsed chatbox. If you don't want to see it, put "0" for this option.

Q: The chatbox doesn't display below or in the top of one of the pages while in the other position it displays
R: You use a style and it's possible that variables used in templates aren't present. (Read the file "Read Me")

Q: I have a problem with accents in the Chatbox
R: Read the file "Read Me"

Q: How to change the value of color for date and for command /me?
R: When you add additionnal CSS for each style, you can change color in class CSS.

Thanks to Sofia for her earlier help on the chatbox.

You can donate if you want to show your support

Last version - MGC Chatbox Evo available : here

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by baghdad4ever

hi i check now

i can ban the english username only

but the arabic username i cannot ban them

and my forum is arabic forum

so how can i ban user???



and i had another problem

when i save the chat as text file

the file come with notunderstadable language


plz help

I know there are problems with arabic language and ajax technology but I am not really used to.

As I don't understand arabic and don't possess a arabic keyboard I unfortunately hardly can debug that

For the shouts saving it is the same problem I think but that one might be solved by changing the header filetype I'll look at it but for the previous one, I don't really know how to debug.

[ragtek]

have someone else problems with the new version?
i can't make the shoutbox higher

[baghdad4ever]

Originally Posted by VBDev

I know there are problems with arabic language and ajax technology but I am not really used to.

As I don't understand arabic and don't possess a arabic keyboard I unfortunately hardly can debug that

For the shouts saving it is the same problem I think but that one might be solved by changing the header filetype I'll look at it but for the previous one, I don't really know how to debug.

ok is there any method to ban the users from admincp??

bec there are some trouble makers

plz help

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by baghdad4ever

ok is there any method to ban the users from admincp??

bec there are some trouble makers

plz help

Actually no there aren't sorry.

Your only solution would be to add manually the ban in the mgc_chatbox_ban table (+ setting the corresponding field in the user table).

[ViViD]

Hi ,
What is that smilies in front of usernames in the Francis screenshots ?
and ... How can I have more than two channels like screenshots ?

[baghdad4ever]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Actually no there aren't sorry.

Your only solution would be to add manually the ban in the mgc_chatbox_ban table (+ setting the corresponding field in the user table).

how can i make that exactly

plz reply

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by ViViD

Hi ,
What is that smilies in front of usernames in the Francis screenshots ?
and ... How can I have more than two channels like screenshots ?

For the smilies this is just the smilies corresponding to the usergroup, this is not chatbox dependant.

Originally Posted by baghdad4ever

how can i make that exactly

plz reply

While I am looking at how you could do that, I see there is a bug in the ban cron...

What you have to do to manually ban a user is the following :

1. Go in phpmyadmin
2. Insert the following entry in the mgc_chatbox_ban table
   1. userid = userid of the user you want to ban
   2. bandate = 1188970265 (this was an earlier timestamp of today)
   3. liftdate = 1767157200 (a timestamp far away in 2025)
   4. whoid = 1 (id of the user that made the ban so supposing you are the first admin)
3. Then go in the user table, find the user you are currently trying to ban and edit its fields. Set the mgc_chatbox_estbannit field to 1.
4. That's all folk !

[Anhyeu12000]

When is version 1.5 MGC Chatbox Released ? I am waiting long time !!!

[Ohiosweetheart]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Hum that's strange, maybe this is the main 1.4 problem which is causing that but not sure.

Any javascript error shown in the internet explorer status bar ?

No, there is no error showing at all. Just says Done. I've attached a screenshot. I took this after it was like that for about 4 mins. The little progress icon just kept going round and round. This happens almost every single time we return to forumhome. My members are really complaining about it.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Anhyeu12000

When is version 1.5 MGC Chatbox Released ? I am waiting long time !!!

I haven't had time yet to start coding. I now live with my girlfriend since sunday so I have much to do and haven't had time for vbulletin.

I hope it'll be released soon.

Originally Posted by Ohiosweetheart

No, there is no error showing at all. Just says Done. I've attached a screenshot. I took this after it was like that for about 4 mins. The little progress icon just kept going round and round. This happens almost every single time we return to forumhome. My members are really complaining about it.

If you look the done is not clean as there is an error icon near it, you should have error explanation if you double click on it.