Updating a user's name

tdous · Post by **tdous** » 25 Sep 2006, 12:50

Hey all,

Probably being stupid here and missing something obvious (it's been a long week so far

) but I can't work out how to change a user's user name after they have already logged into SFS.

The whole point is that our full site will run through SFS so guest users can browse who's online but will ahve to log in for certain areas. I would like to change their user name from "guest_x" to whatever it is when they login without relogging and losign the user_id or anything like that.

Is this possible?

Thanks
Tom

Post by **Lapo** » 26 Sep 2006, 17:07

not a stupid question at all

Originally the user name was thought to be immutable in a user session.
At the moment you can't rename your user during the same session.
There's however a simple workaround, you can add this feature using an extension. You can attach any number of properties to a User object using the properties attribute.

What you have to do is store the user name inside a variable in the properties object and then let the user modify it through a custom request to the extension.
Once changed you will also need to broadcast the event to the other users that are in the room with the client that just modified its name

hope it helps

tdous · Post by **tdous** » 27 Sep 2006, 13:44

Very interesting, thank you

I'll have a play and see what happens.

Dan0 · Post by **Dan0** » 27 Sep 2006, 17:34

Yeh, I thought this aswell I realised that you should include this in a new version of SFS. I guess it wasn't included cos if movieclips are named with a users name and not ID the flash will mess up if the name is changed. I just added another variable but I dont know howt o do extensions/objects