Nickname trouble

[Mania]

I've read bunch of other posts about nicknames but did not find these mentioned/solved.

1. If I set $params["frozen_nick"] = true; I can't change to admin anymore in order to kick people out. Is it possible to have nicknames frozen yet still change your nick to admin? One thing about changing to admin too: if a visitor changes his/her name to admin (without identifying) can I still change my name to admin or will it say the name is in use?

2. Auto-generating guest names. I could have sworn I had this working at some point. Case: I open the chat in one browser and I get "Guest". I open the chat with another browser and I get "Guest29" or some other random number. However, now I just get the message "nicknames cannot be changed" since the $params["frozen_nick"] = true; and the chat freezes. Any ideas?

3. I'd like to have $params["frozen_nick"] = false; but ran into some trouble. I give logged in users their own nickname to the chat from the database. I would like the visitors to change their name to whatever but give certain rules to it like not having some letters in the beginning etc. So logged in users would have like @-char in the beginning but visitors couldn't have that. How would I implement this?

Thanks for anyone sharing some light into these. I'm getting pretty close to integrating the chat into my site.

I'm running the 1.0 beta9.

[Mania]

Apparently I'm asking too complicated questions.. :/

Could someone at least point me to a way on how to put a character in front of a nickname? For example a normal visitor sets his nickname intro "Andy" and the system would automatically display it as "_Andy".

[pinup57]

For instance: (example if your site uses Joomla! database)

$user = new mosUser( $database );
$name = $user->get( 'name' );
$params["nick"] = ("*".$name);

This will display an asterisk before the username.

For the second question, are you sure you use 2 different browsers, like 1 instance of Firefox and another of IE? If the browsers are not different, they'll share the same cookie so indeed you cannot change username for the second instance, that's logical behaviour.

And the first question: did you specify admins? You should.

Dirk

[Mania]

Thanks for the reply. I was however asking about a way to set an asterisk in front of a normal username (not from a database). How would I implement this?

[pinup57]

Ah, sorry... I replied to your original question:

I give logged in users their own nickname to the chat from the database. I would like the visitors to change their name to whatever but give certain rules to it like not having some letters in the beginning etc. So logged in users would have like @-char in the beginning but visitors couldn't have that. How would I implement this?

I guess that putting a special character in front of a user-supplied nickname would need to either hack the source code (nick.class.php) or create a custom command class that overrides or extends nick.class.php. There might be a simpler way of doing so, but I doubt about that.

Dirk

[phpfreechat]

You can also write a proxy that will prepend the "*" characters to /nick parameter.
Look at the censor proxy for a concrete example.