I've read bunch of other posts about nicknames but did not find these mentioned/solved.
1. If I set $params["frozen_nick"] = true; I can't change to admin anymore in order to kick people out. Is it possible to have nicknames frozen yet still change your nick to admin? One thing about changing to admin too: if a visitor changes his/her name to admin (without identifying) can I still change my name to admin or will it say the name is in use?
2. Auto-generating guest names. I could have sworn I had this working at some point. Case: I open the chat in one browser and I get "Guest". I open the chat with another browser and I get "Guest29" or some other random number. However, now I just get the message "nicknames cannot be changed" since the $params["frozen_nick"] = true; and the chat freezes. Any ideas?
3. I'd like to have $params["frozen_nick"] = false; but ran into some trouble. I give logged in users their own nickname to the chat from the database. I would like the visitors to change their name to whatever but give certain rules to it like not having some letters in the beginning etc. So logged in users would have like @-char in the beginning but visitors couldn't have that. How would I implement this?
Thanks for anyone sharing some light into these. I'm getting pretty close to integrating the chat into my site.
I'm running the 1.0 beta9.