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

[sybakaos]

Found another minor issue:
- when inserting a smilie, the page goes to (index.php#chatbox). So basicly, the browser window starts at the chatbox

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by dirty68

Iv deactivate it and its all ok, can you fix this problem as i would like it for my members to be able to edit and delete there own posts

I will I will

Originally Posted by sybakaos

Thanks vbDev. Found another convience issue (IE7):
- when quick editing a chatline (doubeclick) you get the edit box, but you can't hit enter, you must click next to area for it to save. Can that be changed?

Not it can't. I think this is the same for the thread title editing in vb.

I think it can't be done due to the multiple possibilities (user keyboard, os ...).

anyway I might try to search on the web if that's possible.

Originally Posted by matDDH

Nope it doesnt even tell im the only user, its just blank

I tested it numerous ways but today many of my members have been chatting on both the regular and team chat channels I have not touched anything and just let my box remain idle and nothing happens even after many mins, and no one is listed on the WoL....

If other ppl have gotten these functions to work then could it be a server side issue or something?

Here is a screenshot of the WOL channel

My forums are at http://the-darkhand.com/vb/index.php

I don't really think it could be server side thing as other ajax functionnalities of the chatbox works.

but what's strange is that it don't show anything at all :/ Maybe we'll have to work together to make some debug.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by snapshotz

Just upgraded off 1.2 and getting this error when clicking on the team icon.
Line:333
Char:4
Error:'can_team' is undefined
Code:0

This due to the fact that you had modified chatbox templates and you didn't revert it for the new changes to be taken into account. You must revert it and apply your modifications again.

Originally Posted by sybakaos

Found another minor issue:
- when inserting a smilie, the page goes to (index.php#chatbox). So basicly, the browser window starts at the chatbox

This is actually not really an issue as this is wanted ! But depending on the browser, it should not go to this link as I return false in my javascript to avoid that (anyway maybe I didn't... I'll check it).

[matDDH]

Originally Posted by VBDev

I will I will



Not it can't. I think this is the same for the thread title editing in vb.

I think it can't be done due to the multiple possibilities (user keyboard, os ...).

anyway I might try to search on the web if that's possible.



I don't really think it could be server side thing as other ajax functionnalities of the chatbox works.

but what's strange is that it don't show anything at all :/ Maybe we'll have to work together to make some debug.

Sure just let me know what you need me to do. Again thank you!

[dirty68]

Cheers Dev matey i hope you sort it all out soon

[sybakaos]

I have a fix to position scrollbar at bottom when a new message is posted by anyone:


1) open template mgc_chatbox and change

overflow-y

to

overflow

2) open up mgc_chatbox.js and change

if (currentRefreshType == 'forced' && chats_order) {

to

if (1) { // if (currentRefreshType == 'forced' && chats_order) {

Enjoy it!

[snapshotz]

hey VBDev, my bad..the revert templates fixed it..thanks for the great support on this mod and all the added features..still really wanting the random smilies, users keep bothering me about it

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by sybakaos

I have a fix to position scrollbar at bottom when a new message is posted by anyone:

1) open template mgc_chatbox and change

overflow-y

to

overflow

2) open up mgc_chatbox.js and change

if (currentRefreshType == 'forced' && chats_order) {

to

if (1) { // if (currentRefreshType == 'forced' && chats_order) {

Enjoy it!

I might have badly understand the problem.

What your telling me is that you want the scroll to go down when there are new messages ?

If yes then, I disagree with that coz if you're scrolling along all messages, and you're reading them you would really not appreciate that the scroll goes down while you're reading.

And your fix seems odd to me, changing a condition to just 1 could mess up with other functionnalities. However I might not have understood your problem so let's see !

[Desmo]

I've been playing about with this Chatbox on my dev machine and it's great for the forum I want to use it on. But can it do one thing I need or am I missing a setting somewhere?

Basically, some of my users read the chatbox whilst at work and the forum style makes it obvious. Can I assign a different forum style just for the chatbox page? I could then have a much plainer style that the user can select if they wish to.

[VBDev]

Hum no you can't assign a new style but what you can do is add the style id in the link to the full page