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 357Magnum

anybody know if there is a way to show who is shouting? i didn't feel like going through all 50 pages sorry lol.

You have to activate the whosonline canal in the channel options.

Bcarefu coz it might not work on your forum, I haven't been able to find why it is working on some forum but not on other ...

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Red14

OK, I've spent close to two hours using the search thread function, and just browsing through the 98 pages in this thread. I couldn't find anything to answer the one question I have.

Overall this is a great mod, I really like it far better than regular vbshout.

What I'm wanting to do, though, is just have it show in 1 forum, instead of every single forum. We run a radio station for our forums, and we have a dedicated radio forum. This is the only forum that we want the chatbox in. Is there some way I can place this chatbox in just this forum?

"As is" it is impossible, it would need chatbox plugin code tuning.

[TeamR[1]]

]come on 1.5!!

[profanitytalker]

It says on mine when I try to install the english language that it is made for 3.6.7 not 3.6.8. Any help on this?

[VBDev]

You must check the skip language version box (not sure of the name but you should easily find it )

[silvermerc]

Their is no option in usercp?

Originally Posted by VBDev

2 weeks away is too much to handle carefully all the problems that have been encountered while I was away. So I?ll do my possible to answer to all the questions.

All my personal problems are solved now so you shouldn?t worry anymore, I am back !

The version 1.4 is quite unstable I know it and you should stop asking about loading problem coz they all come from that point

Anyway the 1.5 version development will start soon. I?ll try to release a bug fixing version as soon as possible but this will take a little bit more time as my girlfriend is coming to live with me J I?ll try to release it quickly.

Here are my answers, I hope you?ll not get too lost but this was a real pain to manage.

@chillingcafe : Regarding your style problem, I don?t think that it?s a chatbox issue. I suppose you encounter that problem even if you do a small modification in the css ? You should rather ask for help on that part on vbulletin.com as it?s more general than a chatbox problem.

@lolo?: Ok that?s an issue, I put it in the bugs? list

@silvermerc: the color and text types can be saved from within the usercp in all versions since the 1.1

@nymith: yes I add it the <unregistered> thing to the todo list

@Jackfrosted : the chatbox background is linked to the forum background as there are no specified chatbox background color, this is pure html modification I think, I?ll add something to the todo list to see if I can do a vb option for that or a css option.

@Henry187: yes thanks for the bug notification; this is noted in the todo list J

@Henry187 and lucky51: Regarding the fact that the chatbox doesn?t appear for some of your members, you should check if you have done the modification in the modifyoption template. Coz if it?s not the case then any modifications of their options by the users would lead to that kind of strange thing.

@Ba$im: You should use a merge and compare utility for that purpose.

@Terminot: Did you get the same error with the 1.3 version ?

@gforce75: this should be the same problem as for Henry187 and lucky51, if the modifyoptions template is not modified and your users modify their options then the hide chatbox option will be set to 1 as this option won?t be present (coming with the template modification).

@dellow: Not sure as I don?t have my computer there but I think I hardcoded it in the online hooks (yes I know that?s bad)

@catmandoes: Yes I know, but as I do it for free during my spare time I didn?t find the time for it yet

@godarium: The error is in the readme French file don?t worry J , the correction is planned for the upcoming version

@baghdad4ever : I am not author for the Arabic language file so I can?t help sorry, regarding the search thing, this is not possible but that could be interesting yes, I put it in the todo list.

@angy82: What do you mean by not working ?

@WhyDoesItMatter: I haven?t personnaly tried to sorry as IBproarcade was the most used arcade mod.

@Za4a Tuner: yes I know I have to do that xhtml validation too

@Ohiosweetheart : the command is not /prune but /del look at the help in the chatbox

@theOzer: this is due to all buttons in the 1.2 version, this is why I did smaller button for the new versions, you?ll have to wait till the next version

@Traxdata: I think you made the modifyoptions template modification wrongly.

@silvermerc: and the option in their usercp is correctly set ?

@chariotdrived: this is normal functioning, set the number of shouts in collapsed mode to 0 to hide completely the shouts J

@Hendrizius: read the thread post, it?s already done

[VBDev]

Then it's because you haven't made the modifications in the modifyoption template.

Check the install instructions

[pericolosogr]

i followed the steps for the language installation and it screwed up everything,
i have the greek language in utf-8, when i did it with the english language it worked fine but with the greek it was a hell!
is there any other way to import the english phrases?
i deleted both my languages and reinstalled...now i have to make the translations again for the rest of the mods

[VBDev]

This is because the english language file encoding is different than the greek one.

You have to edit the xml file change the encoding to be utf-8 and it should to the trick.

[VBDev]

1.5 development is finished but now I have to update the language files and readme.

So it will be ready soon but it took a little time