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

[VBDev]

Thank for your help proposal.

However someone has already offered me his help for the spanish translation.

Next release is indeed due soon, you can see it working on my forum : www.forumcoding.com (beta test phase).

[entertain]

When I collapse the chatbox, i can't see the shouts any more (on your forum, vBDev )
Maybe a bug? Or a feature?

Will this copyright stay under the chatbox?

[VBDev]

When I do so I see the shouts. What do you meant by can't see the shouts ?

Which browser were you using ?

About the copyright, yes this will stay.

[jerx]

Does the post action box on the right of the chats box belong to MGC Chatbox (at forumcoding)? If you collapse the chatbox, those actions are not hidden (IE7).

[entertain]

When I do so I see the shouts. What do you meant by can't see the shouts ?

I see the collapsed chatbox (as a guest) like this:
Attachment 90775

Which browser were you using ?

Firefox 3.0.5

About the copyright, yes this will stay.

is there a way to get a copyright-free chatbox ?

[XManuX]

Nice Chatbox !

I am currently using my own Shoutbox (code based on an oooooooooooold shoutbox for vb 3.5 with severals improvements) but i may consider switching to MGC Chatbox Evo one day

Some requests tho' :

- About dating : an option using the vB "Yesterday" date format would be cool, instead of displaying always a date. Another option to disable date display (only displaying hours:minutes) for the chats of the day would help making display clearer.

- About defaut channel : would be nice to have more flexibility in there. E.G. when Chatbox is displayed on some pages, it displays Chan 1 as the default one. But on another it can display Chan 2 (or whatever) by default.

- About channels display : what about a mode "display all at once" (with permission checking of course) that would display all chats from all channels but with a different color for each channel. Messy for chatboxes with heavy activity but helpfull for chatboxes with low activity.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by jerx

Does the post action box on the right of the chats box belong to MGC Chatbox (at forumcoding)? If you collapse the chatbox, those actions are not hidden (IE7).

Yes it's a new feature. I will add other actions in later chatbox versions (we could imagine having arcade actions, and so on ).

By not hidden what did you meant ?

Originally Posted by entertain

I see the collapsed chatbox (as a guest) like this:
Attachment 90775
Firefox 3.0.5
is there a way to get a copyright-free chatbox ?

Seems like perhaps there is a bug in the sql retrieval query, I'll look into it.

About the copyright free, I perhaps will release a branding free version (non free one). The add of this copyright is, as you might imagine, to state whom work it is (as every copyright is ).

Originally Posted by XManuX

Nice Chatbox !
- About dating : an option using the vB "Yesterday" date format would be cool, instead of displaying always a date. Another option to disable date display (only displaying hours:minutes) for the chats of the day would help making display clearer.

It's possible to hide the date from the chatbox (as well as the time but less usefull lol).

About the Yesterday thing, why not but not sure it's that useful ? (Unless others are interested).

Originally Posted by XManuX

- About defaut channel : would be nice to have more flexibility in there. E.G. when Chatbox is displayed on some pages, it displays Chan 1 as the default one. But on another it can display Chan 2 (or whatever) by default.

It's an intersting idea. How do you see this handled ?

Adding in the channel definition the THIS_SCRIPT var content for example as for the show on defined pages option.

Originally Posted by XManuX

- About channels display : what about a mode "display all at once" (with permission checking of course) that would display all chats from all channels but with a different color for each channel. Messy for chatboxes with heavy activity but helpfull for chatboxes with low activity.

I don't see how this mod would be handled. Like a button you push to set the chatbox in display all at once mode ?

[jerx]

I think I meant the same as entertain. If you are viewing your forum as a guest and you click the collapse icon, the chats (messages the users have posted in the chatbox) disappear, but the new feature is still visible. It still shows user x replied to thread y, etc.

[emisand]

A suggestion I have for the Chatbox is to display the date with the Today and Yesterday mode.

So all chats made today would be something like:
Today 10:48 PM Emisand: Hello

It could be made, by adding this: $vbulletin->options['yestoday'] when using vbdate() function.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by jerx

I think I meant the same as entertain. If you are viewing your forum as a guest and you click the collapse icon, the chats (messages the users have posted in the chatbox) disappear, but the new feature is still visible. It still shows user x replied to thread y, etc.

I think it's normal cause the new features makes notifications still being chats but just separated when the chatbox is expanded.

But it's strange coz it seems like it's all the time. I'll look into fixing it.

Originally Posted by emisand

A suggestion I have for the Chatbox is to display the date with the Today and Yesterday mode.

So all chats made today would be something like:
Today 10:48 PM Emisand: Hello

It could be made, by adding this: $vbulletin->options['yestoday'] when using vbdate() function.

Yes I know that But I won't use that option as I want it to be separated from default vBoptions, as the date formats are.

I am anyway adding it to the todo list.