certain users in certain room

[ab52]

i have made that nick names are take from a log in script

but i was wondering if there is a way to limit which users can acces certain rooms

for example
i have a room called Printer and i only want certain users to be able to access the room printer
is there a way to do this

thanks
Adam

[OldWolf]

The closest thing would be frozen_channels, which will let you set which channels a user CAN access, blocking all others:
http://www.phpfreechat.net/parameters#frozen_channels

[ab52]

The closest thing would be frozen_channels, which will let you set which channels a user CAN access, blocking all others:
http://www.phpfreechat.net/parameters#frozen_channels

argh, so i take it i cannot say that user ADAM can only see the certain groups

hum.. o well

[OldWolf]

Well, you can set that for each user... just like you would their nick.

Basically you asked for:
The ability to block access to certain rooms
This offers you:
The ability to allow access ONLY to certain rooms

So, no new rooms could be created outside of those.

[ab52]

ah maybe i was not that clear

For example i want the user ab not to be able to access the from TEST
if they try to join either by /join or by clicking on the link ( that i made) then it says that they are not allowed to

but i want the user sdr to be able to access TEST

ie user by user case

[waiheke]

you say you have a login script?

so the link you have made must come after the login ?
why not have a simple code so that if the name is not in an array, or retrieved from a database, the link does not appear ?

if (something);
show the link
otherwise ..
do nothing

do you know php or javascript?

[ab52]

nope

not too good at either

sorry

[OldWolf]

ah maybe i was not that clear

For example i want the user ab not to be able to access the from TEST
if they try to join either by /join or by clicking on the link ( that i made) then it says that they are not allowed to

but i want the user sdr to be able to access TEST

ie user by user case

I understand what you're asking. Let me explain again and see if we can get on the same page:

The parameter I'm providing is unique to each user, just like nick. But it's not exactly what your asking for:
Setting frozen_channels to array("Main Chat") would allow the user access ONLY to "Main Chat". You can set this parameter to whatever you want for each user, just like you set their nick. So some users could access array("Main Chat", "Test") while others would only be allowed to access array("Main Chat"). Does that make sense?

[ab52]

that sounds perfect
how would i do that

also if possible, could the arrays holding users allow in that chat be in a different file, just because otherwise the main file would get very big??

[OldWolf]

Well, the basic application would be something along these lines. I'm going under the assumption that you have some variable "$username" which contains their name, since you said you had worked out how to set the nick.

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switch ($username)
{
    case "timmy":
        $params["frozen_channels"] = array("Room", "Room2", "Room3");
    break;
    case "jimmy":
        $params["frozen_channels"] = array("Room", "Room2");
    break;
    default:
        $params["frozen_channels"] = array("Room");
    break;
}

Now, obviously this is a simple application of it, but hopefully you get the idea. If you don't like that case stuff, you can just use if/else, but case keeps it a little cleaner. Default will be called if none of the other cases apply, so that covers all your other users that aren't the ones you specifically named.

The other nice thing about this is that you can also use that to assign admin, by doing $params["isadmin"] = true; as a second line, on the cases you want to have admin.

Please note, I haven't actually ran this code, so there might be some syntax errors or what have you, I tend to have to debug everything I write.