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 paldo

he tried firefox and i.e he is the only person so far that had such problems .. i dont understand it .. and no errors are shown .ty for your replies

i just upgraded to the new shout yesterday .. he seen it before but he has a new vista install and has been using motel internet for 2 days . think the motel could be blocking somthing he needs ?

Originally Posted by paldo

also he can read the archives he just cant load the shout ..

The only difference between the chatbox and its archive is that in the chatbox shouts are retrieved through ajax.

I am not used to everything beyond ajax (I mean all the server part and http requests) so I can't tell if this come from that part.

Does he encounters problem with other vbulletin ajax functionnalities ?

As a matter of fact, yes maybe there could be a possiblity that the motel internet has blocked port which might be used by the http requests of ajax but as I told ya I am not really skilled in that area

[dirty68]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Do they belong to the same usergroup ?

No DEV ones a member and the other is a supermod, i do think that they are both using firefox tho

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by dirty68

No DEV ones a member and the other is a supermod, i do think that they are both using firefox tho

Then this may be due to the configuration you made for their usergroups permissions.

Check them out, especially the number of posts to see the chatbox one

[dirty68]

yea i did that Dev i found that members need 100 posts to view which ive just changed to 1, but my supermod has been a member for years and has over 4000 posts , oh and he used to beable to view the shouty before i upgraded to 3.6.8

[VBDev]

Did you verify that the modifyoptions template still contains the modification after upgrade ?

Coz maybe the modification needed for the chatbox has disapeared and your supermod has modified its option after that upgrade and if options were not appearing then they would have been seen as equal to 0 making the chatbox hidden.

[dirty68]

Dev he can see the shout template and all the bits but the little refresh thing just keeps going round and thats it

[rainyleaves]

Thanks, VBDev.

Great mod!!
Working fine.
But this mod working fine for only admin.
Another registration user group can't see MGC Chatbox.
Of course I changed permission to 'yes' for other registration groups.

What am I doing wrong?
Please help...
* I installed MGC V1.4 with VB3.6.8

Thanks.

[sys4096]

Similar issues here, 1.4 with VB 3.6.8.
Very strange.

Usergroup perms set to yes, permissions to view the shoutbox are correct, posts required set to 0.

Just doesn't display for some users. I thought it would be not displaying for an entire usergroup, however I made a test user and put him in exactly the same usergroups as a user who was using the chatbox - and I still couldnt see it. Users are identically configured except for the name.

Using the same PC and same browser logging in as the other user, I could see it.

[rainyleaves]

Originally Posted by rainyleaves

Thanks, VBDev.

Great mod!!
Working fine.
But this mod working fine for only admin.
Another registration user group can't see MGC Chatbox.
Of course I changed permission to 'yes' for other registration groups.

What am I doing wrong?
Please help...
* I installed MGC V1.4 with VB3.6.8

Thanks.

I fixed.
I did leave out a line. "posts required set to 0.".
Sorry my fault.

Thanks, sys4096

Usergroup perms set to yes, permissions to view the shoutbox are correct, posts required set to 0.

[dirty68]

Originally Posted by sys4096

Similar issues here, 1.4 with VB 3.6.8.
Very strange.

Usergroup perms set to yes, permissions to view the shoutbox are correct, posts required set to 0.

Just doesn't display for some users. I thought it would be not displaying for an entire usergroup, however I made a test user and put him in exactly the same usergroups as a user who was using the chatbox - and I still couldnt see it. Users are identically configured except for the name.

Using the same PC and same browser logging in as the other user, I could see it.

yea thats about the same here only afew people cant see it, well thay can but no shouts, ive now set posts to 0 and yes dev ive even gone into mysql again and thats all ok... funny that this happened straight after the 368 upgrade