Custom parameters

[kriko]

I would like to customize my chat, so it displays multiple status icons in user list - for e.g. if a user have an anniversary, birthday...
I know how to do that in customize.js.php - I had an idea about getting it via an extra parameter:

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var isBday = this.getUserMeta(nickid, 'isBday');

However this will not work, since adding such parameter will prevent chat from initializing - it doesn't digest other custom parameters. Is there a way around this or a better way to pass parameters across?

[OldWolf]

Add it as a parameter rather than a var in the class, on the chat page.

[kriko]

Can you elaborate a bit more?
My idea was that I have preinitialization script, which determines if a board user has birthday or registration anniversary prior loading chat and respectively set vars (isBday, isAnniversary) so I can display aditional icons by customizing customize.js.php (pfcClient.prototype.buildNickItem).

I didn't understand the part of adding parameters, do you have a piece of code or a demo to show me how?
What I did in main class is this:

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$params["isBday"] = determineBday($user_id);

Thanks!

[OldWolf]

Well, in your example above (first post), it looks like you were messing with the global config class, which you don't want to do. Instead, you should be setting parameters (your second example) in the chat page, whatever it might be called (by default, that's index.php).

[kriko]

$params["isBday"] = determineBday($user_id);

Well If I do that, then chat it won't load at all - it says that I should review my parameters, since "bday" is invalid.
And such parameters is possible to retrieve as in first post, I already use that for "isadmin", in that case I load a special icon next to nick name.

So examples in my first and second post are compatible, one is from php script, the other is from customized overriden js method which should be able to get "special" parameters.

I'm not sure if this is even possible.... but it would be great

[OldWolf]

Ah, it looked like that first post was out of the global configs class.

Well isBday isn't a valid parameter... so that makes sense. But, as you were looking at with your first post, you would use nick meta.

$params['nickmeta'] = array('isBday' => determineBday($user_id));

[kriko]

Offcourse, now I remember! It works, just a tiny problem.
I've added to images subdir (inside theme) some more icons, but it seems like chat script cannot find them, e.g.:

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 if (isBday)
 {
   var img = document.createElement('img');
   img.setAttribute('src', this.res.getFileUrl('images/cake.png'));
   img.setAttribute(className, 'pfc_nickbutton');
   a.appendChild(img);
 }

This works, if I load a previously added rainbow.png, however it fails when trying to load cake.png (src of image is empty). All those files do exist, I did rehashed the settings, is there something else I should do?

UPDATE: forcing whole path as string without getFileUrl works. I've deleted themes from public folder, deleted cache folder, dropped table and let script regenerate. It will copy the custom icons over to public folder in respective theme, but getFileUrl still fails.

[re*s.t.a.r.s.*2]

yeah , I tried too and also failed on me putting the path helped..

[kriko]

I got it - you need to put the new resource file into:
phpfreechat.class.php