Private messages?

[DaveS]

this would be a great addtion

[phpfreechat]

planned for 1.0 release.

[edpollard]

This is a great option, I looked at it in the beta demo site. One suggestion, could you alias /msg to the command you created for it? I know I am showing a bit of age but /msg comes very naturally to me in chat programs to send private chats.

[phpfreechat]

Hummm ... you think about something like that ?
/msg nickname message

[Rhialto]

Why not only /m nick message? Nevermind, I don't need that feature for now but just suggesting...

[phpfreechat]

In fact with my question I'm just trying to let you become aware of a concret problem :
One of the phpfreechat features is to allows nicknames with any kind of characteres, chinese, accent, etc ... and also spaces.
When using this kind of commands, with a space as a separator (between 'nickname' and the message content), it make imposible to know where is the real separator as the space character can exists somewhere in the nickname.

The way I manage this problem internaly is to use a hashed (using md5sum) nickname. But this hashed nickname is a unreadable string for human, something like that fdba8e62b9f99621e4caa5b149e3f82b.
So I don't want the user type : /msg fdba8e62b9f99621e4caa5b149e3f82b hello, how are you
Currently I don't have a user friendly manner to make possible these kind of composed commands.

I don't know if I'm clear, but any ideas are welcomed

[QdR]

Maybe surround the name with a special delimiter? .

/msg Any Long Name This is a message.

Simply strip the leading and trailing backslashes when a user connects, IF a user has chosen a nick like

Cool Me--> Cool Me,

You'll never get conflicts.

Then you can use RegExp to parse