Major Additions - MGC chatbox (with ajax)

If you enjoy my mod and want to be kept up to date >>> "Click install"

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 the below post.

Modifications from previous version are the following :

1.4 :
- Removed features :
  - Aucune

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

For those who had installed earlier v1.4 version:

Upload files again
Import mgc_chatbox product
Enjoy

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 : http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/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 fifth 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.

Reported bugs of v1.4:

Chatbox is displayed 2 times on full page if display on defined page under the navbar option is set.

[TBT] : To Be Tested
[RT] : Reproduced in Test
[KO] : Refused (ie not reproduced)
[OK] : Corrected in the next version

TODO LIST for v2.0:

Smilies in a popup like in new post or new thread (More ... link)
Smilies button possibility to open a popup only insteed of collapsable line
Popup smiley, custom height and widht popup
Maximum number of chats per day in usergroup permissions (possibility to activate/deactivate it as it would add a query)
Try to find a fix to the whosonline problem as it does not affect all user's forums
Option to deactivate random smilies
Correct alt tags for the chatbox's buttons
Warn user on new pm
Correct the readme file for the integration with vbadvanced (adv_index instead of arcade)
Problem of loading in the error and warning messages
Option to disable mp sending on ban.
Add /ban, /ignore and /pm uid <userid> commands
A surprise

Estimated release 1.5 date : September (no exact date as I'll be on holiday during two weeks in august)

Languages

Actually available :

French
English
Arabic [Translator : alessai]
German [Translator : captainslater]

To be available [Translation in progress] :

Vietnamese [Translator : J1755EC6A244]
Spanish [Translator : carlosacgj]
Afrikaans [Translator : powerbook]
Turkish [Translator : neutralizer]
Portuguese [Translator : killerkraft]
Greek [Translator : tonton from vbulletin-ressources.com]
Bosnian [Translator : Benjaminbih]

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.

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 * MtoR?
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

MtoR · 06-18-2007, 01:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xplorer4x4

Yeah the wording is a bit confusing. I was thinking of it the other way around. However I need to know how to uninstall this. I tried to delete both products twice. I uninstalled them in opposite order each time and still get a db error.

when uninstalling, removing the products before removing the files is never recommended as there are bitfields xml files in the includes/xml directory for the products.

This leads to the bitfields to be rebuilt but the tables in the database are no more present if you have uninstall the products ! (bitfields are rebuilt upon install and uninstall).

If you have already uninstall the products, you must remove the xml files of the chatbox from the includes/xml folder and then you have to activate the debug mode in order to be able to rebuild manually the bitfields.

Once the debug mode is activated, the link to rebuild the bitfields is in the vbulletin options menu.

Reedly · 06-19-2007, 12:01 AM

Still love this mod!!

I set the text editor to be under the shouts, and the newest shouts to be on the bottom. The only problem was that the if I refreshed the page the shoutbox window wouldn't auto scroll to the bottom, where the newest shouts were.

For now I just changed it back to editor on top and newest shouts on top.

Any ideas how to make it so if the editor and newest shouts are on the bottom, the newest shouts will show up without having to scroll to the bottom of the shoutbox window?

Thank you for this great mod!!

Reedly · 06-19-2007, 01:21 AM

Also - is there any way to delete one shout from the chatbox? Not every shout from a user, but just one shout from a user?

Thanks!

Sofia · 06-19-2007, 05:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reedly

Also - is there any way to delete one shout from the chatbox? Not every shout from a user, but just one shout from a user?

Thanks!

Go in Archives and click on the red cross of a shout (if you have permissions) ;)

Xplorer4x4 · 06-22-2007, 05:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MtoR

when uninstalling, removing the products before removing the files is never recommended as there are bitfields xml files in the includes/xml directory for the products.

Actually, that may be the case with 99% of hack but the vbplaza requires the php scripts to be in place as it calls to atleast two of the php scripts during install and deletion.

I have been installing hack for(roughly)3 years and never ever had problem deleting the products from the admin cp before deleting the php scripts.

I'm not trying to talk down because you obviously know more then me, just telling you of personal experience.

Tyegurl · 06-22-2007, 10:18 AM

anyone know how i could get this to work with vba?

Cube1233 · 06-22-2007, 10:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tyegurl

anyone know how i could get this to work with vba?

Just install it and wallah

Tyegurl · 06-22-2007, 02:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cube1233

Just install it and wallah

lol i did install and it didn't wallah lmao...any ideas what i may have done wrong? works perfectly in the rest of my forum i just can't get it on my index page of the vba.

Cube1233 · 06-22-2007, 07:12 PM

Site url..

MtoR · 06-22-2007, 07:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xplorer4x4

Actually, that may be the case with 99% of hack but the vbplaza requires the php scripts to be in place as it calls to atleast two of the php scripts during install and deletion.

I have been installing hack for(roughly)3 years and never ever had problem deleting the products from the admin cp before deleting the php scripts.

I'm not trying to talk down because you obviously know more then me, just telling you of personal experience.

In this case, this is not php remaining files problem but xml bitfield files problem as vbulletin retrieves bitifields usergroup permissions from the different bitfields files in the includes/xml directory, so If you uninstall the chatbox, bitfields will be rebuild and table of the chatbox will be removed from the database.

So the rebuild will keep the permissions in the list of permissions but the corresponding bits will not exist in the database ! Maybe all the hacks you've installed didn't have permissions through bitfields ;)

For vbA, I didn't have a look at it for the moment but I'll look that for the next tversion

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