Frozen nick aaarrggghhh!

[micksalerno]

I've intergrated chat into my site. It's all going swimmingly, except, I want registered usernames displayed and random ones for guests. As soon as someone logs in I would like there guest name to change immediately. Honestly I'm a bit lost. Frozen nick seems to be the way except, once logged out it changes with every request by phpfreechat.
My code:

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require_once dirname(__FILE__)."/src/phpfreechat.class.php";
$params = array();
$params["server_script_url"] = "http://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']  . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ;
$params["data_private_path"]   = Yii::app()->request->baseUrl."./vendors/chat/data/private";
$params["data_public_url"]   = Yii::app()->request->baseUrl."./vendors/chat/data/public";
$params["title"] = "DnB Central Chat";
$params["frozen_nick"]    = true;
$params["nick"] = (!Yii::app()->user->isGuest) ? CHtml::encode(Yii::app()->user->name) : 'guest'.rand(1,1000);
$params['firstisadmin'] = true;
$params["isadmin"] = true; // makes everybody admin: do not use it on production servers ;)
$params["serverid"] = md5(__FILE__); // calculate a unique id for this chat
$params["debug"] = false;
$params["container_type"] = "mysql";
$params["container_cfg_mysql_host"] = "localhost";
$params["container_cfg_mysql_port"] = 3306;
$params["container_cfg_mysql_database"] = "chat";
$params["container_cfg_mysql_table"] = "chat";
$params["container_cfg_mysql_username"] = "root";
$params["container_cfg_mysql_password"] = "******";
$chat = new phpFreeChat( $params );

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

every time a 2 seconds request is done, it checks the ran() code and give you a different number, in order to stop this, you need to disable frozen_nick or do a nick based on the user's IP hashing it then using that as guest nick..

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$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$desc = md5($ip);
$preview = substr($desc, 3, 6);
$preview = preg_replace("/[^0-9]/", '', $preview);
$params["nick"] =  "guest".$preview;

put that code instead of the rand() function and the loop will end ...

Dont forget to "/rehash"..
regards.

[micksalerno]

THanks for that sorted. Co-incidently. Going from guest to logged in the room doesn't appear. I need to refresh for this to become visible any ideas?

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

That's the session going nuts, you need to have a link to the login page in the chat room, at that page destroy the old session that held the old guest nick and re initiate a new session with the logged in nick then redirect to the chat page..

that will make sure the old nick is destroy and that you get the registered nick instead old one..