Welcome message

[HeroicLife]

How about a welcome message that a user sees when he joins (but not the whole chat room)

[Djamoer]

Sounds like a IRC channel topic. I would love to see this features as well.

[Nemako]

yep that's a good idea. I think it has already been request but I don't know if kerphi notice it

[Rhialto]

Glad I used the search... I was coming here to ask for this.

Anyway to implement it in 0.9.2? I tried to look to insert it before history messages are displayed but since I'm not a pro, I work with tries and errors so maybe someone better that me can easily add that.

I thought about a simple $welcome = 'welcome message heren2nd line herenbbcode works too!' then a call to show the message. There is no need to display the date/hour before it but if easier to simply call an existing function that also output date/hours based on $params["clock"] then I don't mind.

Anyone?

[Rhialto]

Instead of $welcome = "msg" it may be easier to use a file instead. I know how I could do it with "echo" but that won't throw it in the scrollable area. What function to call so it is displayed in thechat box and will scroll but won't be placed into the history file?

[Mgccl]

I was thinking about it too... the welcome message.... so I thought maybe I just make an welcome message as an pupout DIV and show, when user start to type things, it disappear

[Yokhannan]

Well, there is an easy way to deal with this... but it's got one little bug I can't figure out why the hell it happens....

Inside of (src/commands/join.class.php) find :

// register the user (and his metadata) in the channel

before that add:

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//
// show a welcome message
// yokhannan <yokhannan@gmail.com>
//
unset($cmdp);
$cmdp["param"] = str_replace('_', '', _pfc("%s, welcome to our chatroom!",$u->nick, $channame));
$cmdp["recipient"] = $chanrecip;
$cmdp["recipientid"] = $chanid;
$cmdp["flag"] = 2;
$cmd =& pfcCommand::Factory("notice");
$cmd->run($xml_reponse, $cmdp);

Ok... now the bug.... for some reason I have yet to understand the script author does the following inside of the _pfc() function

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"_".$args[0]."_"

No where in the code can I find exactly why he has done this... so (to me and this bit of code)... it's a bug. (perhaps he can explain??)

The fix to this was to do something that is not exactly good php practice... and that is to str_replace() on a core function.

But, none-the-less... this works. (for me at least)

Yokhannan

[phpfreechat]

No where in the code can I find exactly why he has done this... so (to me and this bit of code)... it's a bug. (perhaps he can explain??)

Hi Yokhannan,

Yes I can explain. _pfc(...) function is used to translate all the chat strings.
These translations are located in i18n/xx_XX/main.php files (replace xx_XX by your local).
When _pfc(...) doesn't find any translations for the label, then it just append and prepend the '_' characteres to the string. So it's easier to find what has not been translated

regards,

Kerphi.

[Yokhannan]

Yes I can explain. _pfc(...) function is used to translate all the chat strings.
These translations are located in i18n/xx_XX/main.php files (replace xx_XX by your local).
When _pfc(...) doesn't find any translations for the label, then it just append and prepend the '_' characteres to the string. So it's easier to find what has not been translated

D'Oh!!!! Crap, I should have figured that one out... Yeah, I understand that function now. Thanks for pointing this out.


Ok, folks, do this than:

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OPEN:
/src/commands/join.class.php

FIND:
// register the user (and his metadata) in the channel


BEFORE, ADD:

//
// show a welcome message
// yokhannan <yokhannan@gmail.com>
//
unset($cmdp);
$cmdp["param"] = _pfc("%s, welcome to our chatroom!",$u->nick, $channame);
$cmdp["recipient"] = $chanrecip;
$cmdp["recipientid"] = $chanid;
$cmdp["flag"] = 2;
$cmd =& pfcCommand::Factory("notice");
$cmd->run($xml_reponse, $cmdp);


OPEN:

18n/xx_XX/main.php files (replace xx_XX by your local)


FIND:

?>

BEFORE, ADD:

// line 62 in join.class.php
$GLOBALS["i18n"]["%s, welcome to our chatroom!"] = "%s, welcome to our chatroom!";

And, that will give you a nice little "welcome message" to everybody who joins your chat room.

Thanks again for the clarification Kerphi.

[moreins]

hello
the code is working for me but im getting the message twice...one under the other1...
can any1 help me?

[zilveer]

Anyhow..
a topic which is shown when you enter the channel would be great:)

[theworld]

hello
the code is working for me but im getting the message twice...one under the other1...
can any1 help me?

Yes, you have placed the code outside of the if condition. So it gets executed every time, and you receive multiple displays. In the join.class.php file where you entered the code, look for
if(!isset($u->channels[$chanid]))

The welcome code must be placed before the closing bracket of that condition. You will probably find the closing bracket right before your new code. Simply move it after the code.

And, thank you Yokhannan for the mod.

Cheers

[zilveer]

Why not have this implemented in beta9 av phpfreechat?

[zooky]

where is the beta 9? there is no formal publishment :S