Restrict usernames to registered users

[Tal]

Thanks to the wordpress plugin I have the chat running nicely on my site, the only problem is with usernames. If you're logged into the system it uses your default username for the chat which is great, but if you're not you can choose any name you like, including that of other registered users. Is there any way I can prevent registered names from being used by others?

[OldWolf]

Set frozen nick to true, and assign guests a user name with a number.

[Tal]

for some reason after selecting the users must be registered option, the chat is no longer automatically picking up the registered nickname of users, everyone now has to enter a nick when entering the chat (this was before I changed the frozen nick setting)

Any ideas how to fix that?

[OldWolf]

I've never played with the plugin, so I'm really not sure what it does using it's options. Sounds like something was mis-coded though.

[Frumph]

The plugin wasn't made to work with frozen nick yet, i'm still working on that part.

Right now i'm trying to figure out a way for a chat admin to clear the sql cache. (properly)

[Tal]

Managed to freeze the nicks so that was fine.

Also got the login automatically issue solved by making sure the var $nick was set to something other than ""

[Frumph]

Yeah did the same thing here on the plugin, made it so that it used the original guest-# code from the release package.

[Tal]

I'm using the plugin, and I didn't undo any of the settings (except through the wordpress interface) so what happened?

[Frumph]

The phpfreechat.php and chat.php need to have corresponding the same code inside it,

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      $params["nick"] = "guest".rand(1,1000);  // setup the intitial nickname
      if (!empty($user_name)) {
         $params["nick"] = $user_name;
      }

Thats the changes made for the nick, reverting to how the phpfreechat release does it.