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

[Jazzinto]

One mysql error in the Mgc Chat evo:

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.3:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT COUNT(chatid) AS nbchats
FROM vbmgc_cb_evo_chat AS c
LEFT JOIN vbuser AS fromu ON (c.fromuid=fromu.userid)
LEFT JOIN vbuser AS tou ON (c.touid=tou.userid)
LEFT JOIN vbmgc_cb_evo_command AS co ON (c.primcid=co.cid)

WHERE primcid='0'
ORDER BY c.dateline DESC;

MySQL Error : Can't find file: 'vbmgc_cb_evo_chat.MYI' (errno: 2)
Error Number : 1017
Request Date : Tuesday, December 9th 2008 @ 12:29:05 AM
Error Date : Tuesday, December 9th 2008 @ 12:29:05 AM
Script : /mgc_cb_evo.php?do=view_archives&page=1
Referrer : showthread.php?p=115597#post115597
IP Address : ******
Username : *****
Classname : *****
MySQL Version : 4.1.20-log

Anybody can help me?, thanks and sorry for my English.

[VBDev]

This error is strange.

Are you sure the chatbox is installed ?

[Jazzinto]

Originally Posted by VBDev

This error is strange.

Are you sure the chatbox is installed ?

Ok, The error is in a Table of Database, I reinstalled that Table and All Ok.

Thanks.

[jerx]

Improvement suggestion:

smilie pop up: give it the same look as default smilie pop up.
Meaning add the phrase "Click a smilie to insert it into your message." below page title and organize smilies in categories.

Right now you are unable to determine which category they belong to and you are not able to change smilie display order by changing the display order of the smilie categories.

[nath89]

im installing MGC Chatbox Evo into 3.7.4

in my styles directory do i just enter the folder titled 'images'?

do you know anything about the following instruction

2/ Upload the content of the "Images" directory in each of your forum styles directories

does this mean everything in the 'images' file?

MGC Chatbox Evo>images>misc>?????

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by Greenskull

got it, sent you a pm

Green, sorry about the delay. My daughter and I had a pretty bad cold. I just took a few days off and didn't check anything on the computer.

Originally Posted by nath89

im installing MGC Chatbox Evo into 3.7.4


in my styles directory do i just enter the folder titled 'images'?

do you know anything about the following instruction

2/ Upload the content of the "Images" directory in each of your forum styles directories

does this mean everything in the 'images' file?

MGC Chatbox Evo>images>misc>?????

You goto your /misc folder for all styles, copy the mgc dir into that. Say your site is www.turd.com (and that's where forums load) and locally on the server say it's d:\user\jewboy\turd.com

You'd goto d:\user\jewboy\turd.com\images\misc and in the zip, you'd goto the /images/misc and drop from there. Meaning, grab the mgc_cb_evo folder and subs and drag it to ur d:\user\jewboy\turd.com\images\misc , and doing so for any other styles...

[SnapOff Racing]

Originally Posted by Ranger187

Green, sorry about the delay. My daughter and I had a pretty bad cold. I just took a few days off and didn't check anything on the computer.



You goto your /misc folder for all styles, copy the mgc dir into that. Say your site is www.turd.com (and that's where forums load) and locally on the server say it's d:\user\jewboy\turd.com

You'd goto d:\user\jewboy\turd.com\images\misc and in the zip, you'd goto the /images/misc and drop from there. Meaning, grab the mgc_cb_evo folder and subs and drag it to ur d:\user\jewboy\turd.com\images\misc , and doing so for any other styles...

Turd.com hell yeah man that's my favorite site. LMAO

[Ranger187]

Haahaha!

[Angel-Wings]

Originally Posted by Ranger187

What I do, and what others do is an assumption. Does everyone use smilies in this chat? No, Does everyone use the PM function? No. But having it as an option is not a drawback in any form. Why? I see things differently. 1 being say a full backup of a database is 100+ megs. You tell me you've never had a large dB timeout exporting, importing etc. Would you rather export / import a 1 meg file, or 100 meg file? Whether the people do their admin functions is not my concern. Having a useful function is. This to me is. Let me know when you use shared hosting, and you have to have THEM do the import because you can't due to limitations etc. There is a reason for this.

For sure your points are all valid - just - if someone wants to backup, AdminCP -> Database Backup and then just selecting the Chatbox tables.
I just want to say it's maybe not required to invent the wheel a second time if already everything's there.
If you backup only the Chatbox tables, the resulting backup won't be that large - just - people would manually need to do it.

This should be exactly what you want, isn't it ?

In case of a complete data loss, backup would be that installing the Chatbox again, getting the tables created and then re-import the Chatbox Tables Backups - everything without a complete DB import.

Oh - and - I really never had a large timeout I'm personally using a Master -> Slave replication on a very small backup server and from there again to my local home network.

Back to topic - like said - Backups of the Chatbox can already be done without doing a complete backup of the board DB via AdminCP, adding such a feature would maybe result in a more complex script and we all know - the more complex something is, the more hard it is to have it clean of any hidden bugs.

But - if the developer wants to add such a function, no problem as well

[Angel-Wings]

Originally Posted by Jazzinto

MySQL Error : Can't find file: 'vbmgc_cb_evo_chat.MYI' (errno: 2)

Are you sure your Database is ok and that the install process went fine ?

Looks like this table is completely missing or gone. If it exists, maybe do a "Repair" run