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

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Maybe its my screen resolution, but your captha is absolutely unreadable. Ill email you.

Alfa, did you get on?

[Alfa1]

Yes, I'm in.

[Ranger187]

Sweet.

[Swordman844555]

Hi Clement,

I now have installed the latest version and have the following problems in full screen mode, see screenshots.

[Toorak Times]

Hi Clément,

Thank you so much for your quick service on setting this up for me.

Cheers

mick

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Swordman844555

Hi Clement,

I now have installed the latest version and have the following problems in full screen mode, see screenshots.

This was reported to me, I'll provide a fix in the next release.

[Alfa1]

I'm still encountering this bug: http://www.mgcproducts.com/project.php?issueid=58

[Nelson58]

I apologize in advance if this was asked before. I need a chat for my site that works ON THE NAVBAR and OPENS A NEW PAGE, and TELLS OTHERS THAT PEOPLE ARE IN CHAT.

Your chat seems to work on the same page, and that extends the page, which I don't want. Valter's VSA chat puts a link on the Navbar, but has no way to announce who is in chat.

Will your chat do what I need?

1- put a link on the Navbar (like Valter's VSA Chat)

2- open a new page rather than extending the existing page by embedding

3- let other users know that someone is in chat (or let them be paged or notified).

Thanks,

Nelson

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Allthumbz

1- put a link on the Navbar (like Valter's VSA Chat)

Not automatically though, but now that you says it is stupid not
Adding this to the todo list.

Originally Posted by Allthumbz

2- open a new page rather than extending the existing page by embedding

mgc_cb_evo.php?do=view_chatbox shows the chatbox on its own page, though there is a small bug on that part in the current version that makes it quite unusable, this will be fixed by end of the month.

Originally Posted by Allthumbz

3- let other users know that someone is in chat (or let them be paged or notified).

You mean elsewhere than on the chatbox page ?

[Nelson58]

Originally Posted by VBDev

Not automatically though, but now that you says it is stupid not
Adding this to the todo list.



mgc_cb_evo.php?do=view_chatbox shows the chatbox on its own page, though there is a small bug on that part in the current version that makes it quite unusable, this will be fixed by end of the month.



You mean elsewhere than on the chatbox page ?

1. It would be great if you add a link to the Navbar that opens its own page like Vchat by Valter.

2. mgc_cb_evo.php?do=view_chatbox - where would I put this code? I am a newbie to PHP.

3. Let others know on the bottom of the userlist that others are in chat, how many, which chat channel, and allow a registered user to page someone to chat, and permit pages to be turned off if someone does not want to be bothered.

Nelson