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 Scotty2k

Hi,

no idea why but no shoutbox will work for me after new installation of server and vbulletin.

Is there a special option of configuring the apache ?

.. vbshout, dreamchat and MGC Chatbox will always freeze at "Loading.." and nothing happpens...

I can enter a text and the the text is visible in the archive but not in chatbox... only "Loading.."...

Could you please help me, my users are missing the chat and i have no idea how to fix it

Does your server allows ajax requests ? Any other ajax functionnalities are working on your board ?

Maybe you should dig on that part coz this seems like ajax requests are not taken into account.

[Scotty2k]

You are right, there seems to be no ajax functionality on my server .. please cann you explain me how to turn it on ? The ajax function in vbulletin is turn on !

EDIT:

Found the error in language File .. Edit the Settings in my language German von ISO-xxxx to UTF-8 and now its working fine for me.

Seems to be, that ajax is expecting a special iso

[VBDev]

Yes that's exact ajax and more generally javascript needs the utf-8 encoding.

[hardiono]

Originally Posted by VBDev

For the smilies problem, there may be a fix but I didn't tested it yet, so maybe you could try:

1. Open the includes/function_mgc_cb.php file
2. Find the getChatboxSmileys function
3. In the line
   PHP Code:

   $chatbox_smileys .= '<a href="#" onclick="return ajout_smilie(\'' . $textsmilie . '\');" alt="' . $smilie['title'] . '"><img src="' . $smilie['smiliepath'] . '" border="0" /></a> '; 

4. Replace # by #top

Thank you for this very nice mod, installed and voted for MOTM.
But I still could not fix the problem of jumping to the top after inserting smilie.

I changed "#top" to "#", and "" did not work, I changed it back to "#top," it keeps jumping.
Please help

[Calibre_k]

Sorry its working,

1 chat is too long how can i shorten it?

Any way to have it start & stop at a certain times of the day?

[m002.p]

Hi!

Great mod VBDev but havent installed it yet

My members like it on the homepage of VBa 3.0 as a module as well as the forumhome so until I can figure out how to do it with this mod I cant change from VbShout

Any ideas how to add it to VbAdvanced?

Also I have a question... is it possible to place the shoutbox under "whos online" rather than on top of the forums?

Thanks

[pewp]

Hey, I just downloaded/installed the newest version. I LOVE IT! the addition of the chatbox title and switching the placement of newest posts/editors are AWESOME!

thanks a bunch man, keep up the good work!

[Tulsa]

There is a tiny little issue with the top shouters in the archives. The heading reads 10 best shouters, when I only have 5 selected to be shown.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by hardiono

Thank you for this very nice mod, installed and voted for MOTM.
But I still could not fix the problem of jumping to the top after inserting smilie.

I changed "#top" to "#", and "" did not work, I changed it back to "#top," it keeps jumping.
Please help

I haven't look at that actually sorry, next version will try to look at that.

Originally Posted by Calibre_k

Sorry its working,

1 chat is too long how can i shorten it?

Any way to have it start & stop at a certain times of the day?

What do ya mean by shorten it ?

For the certain times of the day, you mean only show chatbox between specified hours ?

I don't think it would be that useful, no?

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by m002.p

Hi!

Great mod VBDev but havent installed it yet

My members like it on the homepage of VBa 3.0 as a module as well as the forumhome so until I can figure out how to do it with this mod I cant change from VbShout

Any ideas how to add it to VbAdvanced?

Also I have a question... is it possible to place the shoutbox under "whos online" rather than on top of the forums?

Thanks

To put it under the whosonline would be possible. You have to follow the little how to of the readme file for styles where the chatbox doesn't show on bottom of the page and do it so that the var to add in the template is under the whosonline.

For vbadvanced, you'll have to wait until next version I think.

Originally Posted by Tulsa

There is a tiny little issue with the top shouters in the archives. The heading reads 10 best shouters, when I only have 5 selected to be shown.

Hum, I don't remember if I made that modification in the archive file, will put that in the todo list