clearing sessions to test parameters

[jaco]

recently installed phpFreeChat 1.0 beta 7 - just having problems testing my parameter sessions. how do i clear the sessions so that when i refresh my page that i can test my new settings?

here is the parameters i used:

$params["title"] = "Some website I am using on";
$params["nick"] = $_SESSION['a_session_that_indicates_the)user']; // setup the intitial nickname
$params["serverid"] = md5(__FILE__); // calculate a unique id for this chat
$params["frozen_nick"] = true;
$params["height"] = "200px";

however i have refreshed like plenty of times but the height is still the same, this worked yesterday when i had an older version but had the same refresh problem

[phpfreechat]

you have to rehash your chat : http://www.phpfreechat.net/faq.en.html#rehash

[jaco]

Hello Stephane

i successfully refreshed but because i have $params["frozen_nick"] = true; - i cant change back to the admin: You are not allowed to change your nickname

while i do administrator functions do i need to have $params["frozen_nick"] = false in order to get back into admin?

is there another way to log in as a administrator? so when you go into the chat you dont need to change your nickname?

[phpfreechat]

you can change the admin password or add other user as admin, just read that : http://www.phpfreechat.net/faq.en.html#setup-admins

[jaco]

hello

was wondering how to do the following.

i set up admins parameters on the index page, but because $params["frozen_nick"] = true, I cannot login as an administrator.

and what is the syntax for using a password:

/nick adminname adminpasswrd?

the reason I want to keep frozen_nick true is because im using users from a database so if they do misbehave I can easily track them and warn them.

also is my parameter correct? > $params["nick"] = iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8", $_SESSION['user_name']); - used to work in the older version as: $params["nick" = $_SESSION['user_name'] but doesnt seem to work in the newer version.

or would the easiest way to do this be to create the admins the same name as my login names, so for example lets say I login as S_SESSION['user_name'] = 'someGuyAtSomeWebsite' and this is written to the session user_name.

now on my main chat page i have:

$params["nick"] = iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8", $_SESSION['user_name']); // setup the intitial nickname
$params["serverid"] = md5(__FILE__); // calculate a unique id for this chat
$params["frozen_nick"] = false;

$params['admins'] = array ('someGuyAtSomeWebsite' => 'somePwd'); - where would i put in the password?

only thing that im not sure about is how do i input the password?

ok so now i have logged in on the website i navigate to the chat room and it logs me in as an administrator i.e someGuyAtSomeWebsite , could this work?

[phpfreechat]

you have to use the /identify command to identify your user as admin.
ex:
/identify yourpassword

[jaco]

hello

can i still change users even if nick_frozen = true, cause i try /nick admin but keep getting "You are not allowed to change your nickname"

[phpfreechat]

If you use frozen_nick then I think you have an external user database.
So just create a admin user and log into the chat with this admin user.

[jaco]

cool!

everything is working no I forgot to put my session_start() { how silly of me } in front of the page, so obviuosly i didn't find anything (session variables) and the nickname kept popping up.

everything seems in order now have already kicked someone out as part of the admin exercise.

what other commands are available besides kick?

[phpfreechat]

/ban