Web Page and Username Automatic

I second this feature. I know you already know about from http://drupal.org/node/29312 but I think it is a very important feature to have.

I'll try to get to this soon, but for now I'm marking this as "normal", not "critical".

I can't seem to get your module to work. I copy it into my module dir and shoutbox behaves the same as before.

I'd really like it if only authenticated users can post with their authenticated user name in the shoutbox.

err nevermind, got it. works great, thanks!

Definately interested - Is there a 4.7 revision?

I've spent a little time comparing this 4.6 fork and the vanilla 4.7 module, I can see roughly whats going on, but I've never coded a line of php in my life and the priority now is the site dev as a whole - shame. I think the update would be relatively trivial for somebody au fait with php, hope it happens soon =]

Toby

And here's another user "shouting" for this feature. It would really be great!

And another one! I had sent you a patch some time ago, i see you didnt take care of it.
Now, the shoutbox module seems to have changed a lot, no providing an inline feature anymore... I hope it will grow well, including theses features a lot of users request....

Thanks

Charly

For users wanting to use automaticaly the username as nick on the shoutbox and disabling the nickname form when user are logged in:

edit shoutbox.module (version 4.7) and replace the bloc of code from the line 173 (just before $default_nick declaration) to the line juste before the "$form['message'] = array(" by this bloc:

if ($GLOBALS['user']->name != "") {
$default_nick = $GLOBALS['user']->name;
$logged=1;
}
else {

$default_nick = t('Your Name/Nick');
}

$default_msg = t('Enter Message');
$default_url = t('Your Website URL');

$form = '';

if (!$logged) {
$form['nick'] = array(
'#type' => 'textfield',
'#attributes' => array('onfocus' => 'javascript: if (this.value == "' . $default_nick . '") { this.value = "" };'),
'#default_value' => $default_nick,
'#size' => 15,
'#maxlength' => 30,
);
}
else {
$form['nick'] = array(
'#type' => 'hidden',
'#default_value' => $default_nick,
);
}

That should work. I didnt really test it...
You can still come back to the original bloc of code:

$default_nick = t('Your Name/Nick');
$default_msg = t('Enter Message');
$default_url = t('Your Website URL');

$form = '';

$form['nick'] = array(
'#type' => 'textfield',
'#attributes' => array('onfocus' => 'javascript: if (this.value == "' . $default_nick . '") { this.value = "" };'),
'#default_value' => $default_nick,
'#size' => 15,
'#maxlength' => 30,
);

Charly

I noticed this too and I hacked my way through the module code to remove the URL entry box and force the username to be the $name from the user info array. It is not pretty and I am too embarrased to share the code here because I know nothing really of PHP. It does work however despite the hatchet job I did and I did break the timestamp in doing so. I'll be trying to reverse that damage back out.

I would be most interested in a proper release with the ability to force the registered username.

I would also like the shout box to have a "view" element in the access control so that I can easily hide this module from anonymous users. There is probably another way to do this but I haven't figured it out yet.

This is in the 4.7.x and upward versions.