Forcing a Constant Color For User List

[RobbieThompson73]

Hello, I have a successful phpFreeChat installed on my server (great product and great support). I have one question though - when ever I re-connect to the chat or manually refresh the page using the Browser refresh - the color of the list of users changes along with the color of my name in the chat area. Is there a way of keeping these two colors constant such that they never change?

Thanks

Robbie

[Devis]

Hi Robbie, my users asked me something similar, they would like to choose their nick colour.

[phpfreechat]

currently this is not doable in phpfreechat, the color is chosen randomly on client side (in js).

[RobbieThompson73]

Thanks for the quick response. Could you possibly tell me where in the code that random choice is made?

[Devis]

may be we could set colors per user in the server writing cookies and patch the customize.js to read cookies ?

[phpfreechat]

The code is located in src/client/pfcclient.js :

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  /**
   * get the corresponding nickname color
   */
  getAndAssignNickColor: function(nick)
  {
    /* check the nickname is colorized or not */
    var allready_colorized = false;
    var nc = '';
    for(var j = 0; j < this.nickcolor.length; j++)
    {
      if (this.nickcolor[j][0] == nick)
      {
  allready_colorized = true;
  nc = this.nickcolor[j][1];
      }
    }
    if (!allready_colorized)
    {
      /* reload the color stack if it's empty */
      if (this.colorlist.length == 0) this.reloadColorList();
      /* take the next color from the list and colorize this nickname */
      var cid = Math.round(Math.random()*(this.colorlist.length-1));
      nc = this.colorlist[cid];
      this.colorlist.splice(cid,1);
      this.nickcolor.push(new Array(nick, nc));
    }

    return nc;
  },

[MusicalBox]

Well if someone finds a way to let users choose there own color please post the codes here

[zilveer]

Hi,
I dont think it is hard to fix. maybe something similiar this would solve the problem?

btw I am not so good at programming. but tell me if i am wrong?

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/**
   * get the corresponding nickname color
   */
  getAndAssignNickColor: function(nick)
  {
    /* check the nickname is colorized or not */
    var allready_colorized = false;
    var nc = '';
    for(var j = 0; j < this.nickcolor.length; j++)
    {
      if (this.nickcolor[j][0] == nick)
      {
  allready_colorized = true;
  nc = "#FF00FF"
      }
    }
    if (!allready_colorized)
    {
     nc = "#FF00FF"
    }

    return nc;
  },