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

[OnTheSideDesign]

I am trying to add images for the other channels and they arent working..can you please help on how to name and where to put?

I am putting them in my styles/misc/chat/channels or something like that, where the other general chat is at and naming the same as the general chat just changing the gen in it...problem is that its still not showing up, thanks for any help.

[utahraves]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Hey guys,

What are the settings you put the display and position options for show on all pages and so on ?

I've tried a lot of different options.

I've had "Display on defined pages of the forum under the navbar" set to yes (which I know overrides the other option). I've had it set to no and "Display the chatbox on defined pages in a variable" set to Yes.

List of the other forum pages: I've left it blank because I want it displayed on all the pages I can. I have done the following without the []s.

[usercp,arcade]

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by OnTheSideDesign

I am trying to add images for the other channels and they arent working..can you please help on how to name and where to put?

I am putting them in my styles/misc/chat/channels or something like that, where the other general chat is at and naming the same as the general chat just changing the gen in it...problem is that its still not showing up, thanks for any help.

You have to have the different image version of the channel button (_sel and _nosel).

Then you just input the name of the button when creating the channel.

Let's say your channel images are :
mychannel_sel.gif
mychannel_nosel.gif
mychannel_new.gif

Then you would just input: mychannel in the image name input box.

Originally Posted by utahraves

I've tried a lot of different options.

I've had "Display on defined pages of the forum under the navbar" set to yes (which I know overrides the other option). I've had it set to no and "Display the chatbox on defined pages in a variable" set to Yes.

List of the other forum pages: I've left it blank because I want it displayed on all the pages I can. I have done the following without the []s.

[usercp,arcade]

Hum that should work if you had modified the IBProarcade display function as explained.

But anyway this should not be necessary in the next release (mid june normally). and you shouldn't have such problem anymore.

[utahraves]

Yep, I followed instructions as stated. I'm excited for your next release. I'll be donating to you at that time

Feature Request: New registration notification

[edit] I also feel like a total newb... but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to create new commands. The instructions are out of date (which you stated already), there is no 'edit channel' option on the main channel like in the pictures and didn't see anything in "plugins" for it.... i'm just lost I've tried searching through the pages but 340 pages is a lot for looking up what to do.

[updated]

Feature request: I would like to see an alternative avatar layout where only the last person who chatted could have a full avatar showing. Nobody else's avatar would show. I used to have a program that did this, but I like yours better overall. That feature would be nice since as you chat the avatar of the last person changes and you can see the detail from their avatar in full size without taking up screen space showing everyone's avatar at that size.

The format then would go like this:

Column 1:
First rows: Enter Chat Here - Buttons - Icons
Last rows: Last Person Chatted Avatar (Full Size Avatar shows)

Column 2+:
As it is now, Date, Time, Chat, etc.

Otherwise it looks good. Thanks.

[Brentnauer]

Right now the full-sized avatar image is being used in chat, but is being squished down to a tiny size. Would it be possible to use avatar thumbs, as used on profile comments and social group posts?

It'd save bandwidth and may look a bit nicer.

[cory_booth]

*******REQUEST**********

Notifications and Chats have different sounds.

[Lilyandy]

Author of Hello!

I am a Chinese translator, has translated into Chinese would be 1.4,
But language is not easy comparison, it has ceased to translation to date,
I hope the main language is English, which will easily translated into Chinese,
At the same time, if you provide relevant, I would be willing to provide the Chinese translation (both Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese) cooperation. Thanks! ^_^

[Kolbi]

I would wish that it doesn?t need so much ressources

[exyuteam]

Hello VBDev,

I'm glad to hear that your work on next release is going very well I just hope so that you'll fix problems with displaying chats when oldest on top and editor is bottom.... I posted earlier this problem (with bunch of Print Screen pictures). I beleive that you already find solution to fix this problem. Ver. 1.5 working well, you code it, so I beleive in you


Thanks for this great hack.....!