Clearing the chat box between visits...

[sdowell]

Is it possible to have the chat box clear between visits. I'd just prefer not going into the chat and seeing left overs from the last chat.

A suggestion would be... If someone is the first one into the chat, then the program automatically clears the buffer from the previous chat session, and displays a clean chat area.

Thanks for making this program available. It's a very nice addition to the forum that I run.

~Steve

[phpfreechat]

It's allready possible, use this parameters :

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$params["max_msg"] = 0;

[sdowell]

Hmmm.. That doesn't seem to work.
I tried putting it in the @params list, and also as an item in the $params = array. I'm still seeing a screen full of history when I log into the chat.
I also tried clearing my browser cache. Still see history.

Any suggestions?

~Steve

[sdowell]

Follow up... When I completely closed my browser, and started a fresh seesion, the history cleared out of the screen. So it does work.
However, I don't typically close out my browser. It's usually always up. So practically speaking, I still see the last history in the chat pane.

I still think it would be a good idea to hard code this functionality into the program... If a user is the first to come into a chat, then the chat pane automatically clears (regardless of whether the browser session was restarted).

At any rate, thanks for hearing my suggestion, and having a quick reply.

~Steve

[phpfreechat]

1. Closing the browser just killed the cached chat parameters from the sessions.

2. When the window is open, why and when do youwant the message to be cleared ?
Currently, with the max_msg=0, the new connected peoples will not see older messages than their connection date. Isn't it the wanted behaviour ?

[sdowell]

Currently, with the max_msg=0, the new connected peoples will not see older messages than their connection date. Isn't it the wanted behaviour ?

Hmmm... Is it by connection date? Maybe that explains why I'm still seeing previous messages even though my $max_msg is set to zero.

I wouldn't expect that someone coming into a chat session should ever see any previous messages at all (even if they had connected earlier that day).

The reason I'm harping on this is because if two people from my forum were having a private conversation on the chat, it just wouldn't be proper for another person to come into the chat and see what the first two had just been discussing. I think that new person coming in should be presented with a blank chat area (even if he might have been in the chat earlier in the day.)

This is the way IRC clients work. If I join a room on IRC, I don't see any previous discussion. I only see discussion from the time I come in. And if I log out of the room and come back in a few minutes later, it's the same. I only see the discussion from the new time I come in.

Sorry. I feel like I'm being a nudge about this. I really do like your chat program, and appreciate the effort you've put into it.

Thanks again,

~Steve

[phpfreechat]

To be short : Setting max_msg to 0 should behave like on IRC.
Maybe there is a bug ? Could you give me the public url of your chat ?

Moreover, if you want your chatter can do "real" private message, just wait for the 1.0 release.

[sdowell]

It does seem to be working now. Don't know what the issue was before. I haven't changed anything since yesterday.

Thanks,
Steve