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

[skywalker2208]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Version 1.0.0 Development status update :

Another good news today ! I have improved the chatbox performances as suggested by a user a long time ago.

Only needed chats will now be retrieved upon refresh. Currently, all chats were retrieved at each refresh thus slowing down the refresh when lots of chats are displayed in the chatbox.

This should drastically increase the speed of the chatbox.

I still have to manage edited chat and solve a javascript blocking issue but that should be good

I think I'll release a new version of the chatbox next week.

Will the issue with the PM alert not working on be fixed with the next release?

[SnapOff Racing]

Originally Posted by Bicho??

Anibody now how can i do to delete these "<" ">" in the chat box?


Anybody could tell me please?


Thanks for this great mod first of all, kind regards.

Yeah just like skywalker said, just go into Chats Display, under the MGC Chatbox EVO options list.. Goto the section that says "HTML Code for the usernames display" and it should have this in the field...

FIND:
&lt;{1}&gt;

CHANGE TO:
{1}

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by soundbarrierpro

Sorry, was nice but uninstalled. Far too many constant upgrades.

I don't think that I have made that much upgrades.

Only 6 versions it's honestly not a lot.

But it's ur choice to uninstall, I respect that

Originally Posted by Kaycee123

Hi - our chatbox has been working fantastic, and is the most popular part of our site, but in the past week many of our members have said it isn't working - it just keeps saying "Loading" but the chat never shows up. It seems very intermittent - some members can use it fine, others it won't work. And a few minutes later it works again.

I have done all the upgrades today just to see if that helped, but its still happening. Any ideas?

Any differences between those users in term of rights in the chatbox and so on ? (Style, ...).

Originally Posted by SnapOff Racing

OK You know how normally a user has to hit the BBCODE button to get the Fonts, Links, EMail, Image buttons to show up? Well I would like to make it so that the BBCODE buttons ALWAYS show up. I've got a buncha members all wondering where to change their font color and add images etc. So if the BBCODE buttons were always there, I think it would help resolve the issue a little
I seen that there is an option to make it so that if the users click on BBCODE that it will always stay there even when they log out and log back in, but I think it's that initial getting them to click on it first, and I don't have time to help school every member on how things work.

In fact it's in their usercp so unless they don't look at the options offered by the software, they can find it.

Originally Posted by SnapOff Racing

Sooo I figure that there must be some sorta query that I can run so that it will make it so that the BBCODE buttons show up automatically for EVERY member. Does that make sense?

Yes it does make sense but there is no query for that. The only thing would be to make a change in the code to display the BBCODE bar collapsed by default.

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

I'm not the only one

The issue doesn't seem to be the same as yours, read more carefully.

Bitwise I asked you for admin account with full rights and ftp access (send by PM) in a previous post but no answer from you.

So before complaining more than that lets work on your issue together ;-)

Originally Posted by skywalker2208

Will the issue with the PM alert not working on be fixed with the next release?

What was it, I don't remember.

PM don't get sent or always sent even if disabled ?

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by VBDev

The issue doesn't seem to be the same as yours, read more carefully.

Bitwise I asked you for admin account with full rights and ftp access (send by PM) in a previous post but no answer from you.

So before complaining more than that lets work on your issue together ;-)

I'm not complaining. just pointing out that someone had a similar issue. but your right, maybe I should read more closely. all I saw was "Loading.... but the chat never shows up." in his post and assumed. thats exactly what is happening to mine.

I'd be happy to give you admin rights. can you register at my forum and its yours. I do have another one installed but I'd really like to give this a try.

www.sundeviltalk.com

[skywalker2208]

Originally Posted by VBDev

What was it, I don't remember.

PM don't get sent or always sent even if disabled ?

When you receive a pm you are suppose to get a pop-up saying you have received a pm, but I don't get the pop-up anymore even then I have it checked saying I want to receive the pop-up. It only happens on the pages I have the chat box on.

Plus I still receive this error "mgc_cb_evo_autocomplete is not defined" on all pages that don't have the chatbox. Could this be related to the PM pop-up?

[intricatic]

Hmm... timestamp randomly began showing the month -1 last night (it says today: 6/08/08).

[Alfa1]

It would be great if it where possible to only show who's chatting to certain usergroups. So even though they cant see the chatbox, they can still see there's activity. Please add this function.

[gpc10347]

Anyone know what might prevent 5.0 from working on 2 out of the 6 styles I have? 4.0 works pretty well on all but when I update to 5, apparently there's a conflict where BlockUI.js stays blocking and I have to refresh to get control back to my browser...

I'd really like to update and I don't mind modifying the two templates (one of the two is the one my users selected as the default...)

Any ideas on what I can tear up next?

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

I'm not complaining. just pointing out that someone had a similar issue. but your right, maybe I should read more closely. all I saw was "Loading.... but the chat never shows up." in his post and assumed. thats exactly what is happening to mine.

I'd be happy to give you admin rights. can you register at my forum and its yours. I do have another one installed but I'd really like to give this a try.

www.sundeviltalk.com

Create the admin accoun in the admincp for me plz

Originally Posted by skywalker2208

When you receive a pm you are suppose to get a pop-up saying you have received a pm, but I don't get the pop-up anymore even then I have it checked saying I want to receive the pop-up. It only happens on the pages I have the chat box on.

Plus I still receive this error "mgc_cb_evo_autocomplete is not defined" on all pages that don't have the chatbox. Could this be related to the PM pop-up?

Oh yes ok. I never experienced that so I don't know. We'll see once the new version is released. Don't hesitate to bother me so that I check out that

Yes the error is a known problem.

It will be corrected in the next version.

Originally Posted by intricatic

Hmm... timestamp randomly began showing the month -1 last night (it says today: 6/08/08).

I don't see the problem the date is in your message.

Originally Posted by Alfa1

It would be great if it where possible to only show who's chatting to certain usergroups. So even though they cant see the chatbox, they can still see there's activity. Please add this function.

I am sorry but I won't do that. I personnaly don't find that useful.

If you want certain usergroups to see who's online in the chatbox then give them the right to the chatbox. This is to specific sorry.

Originally Posted by gpc10347

Anyone know what might prevent 5.0 from working on 2 out of the 6 styles I have? 4.0 works pretty well on all but when I update to 5, apparently there's a conflict where BlockUI.js stays blocking and I have to refresh to get control back to my browser...

I'd really like to update and I don't mind modifying the two templates (one of the two is the one my users selected as the default...)

Any ideas on what I can tear up next?

When BlockUI.js stays blocking which error do you get ?

In those 2 styles, are there any specific javascript features like jquery ?

Does the firefox consol error shows you specific error messageS ?

[gpc10347]

Originally Posted by VBDev

When BlockUI.js stays blocking which error do you get ?

In those 2 styles, are there any specific javascript features like jquery ?

Does the firefox consol error shows you specific error messageS ?

Thanks for the quick response. I moved back to version 4 as my users (what few they are) consider this the number one feature ever in a Vb board!

I don't have firefox but would be more than happy to go get it if it would help fix me up..

Oddly enough, there's no error that I can detect: As an example, if I want to enter a url or image, I click the approriate icon, the screen dims (similar to log off), the foreground entry box pops up as expected and if I hit cancel (for instance) - the entry box goes away but the screen and cursor never return.. If I refresh the entire page, all is well again...

I know I'm grasping at staws here as it obvious the product is perfect in all the other styles. I can't locate anything in the two oddballs that would interfere but will keep looking.

Perhaps I should wait and see what happens with a newer version later?