See the server side file "examples/nickname.js". On line 5, the server compare the new name to all the names currently connected to the server to see if the name is already in use. You can use something similar to this to achieve what you described. Note that the "userlist" is managed in "frameword/userlist.js" server side.
Another way would be to loop all the users in a specified channel and test if the name match. A server side command similar to this, that can be called from javascript client or php Inlinepush : https://gist.github.com/4477100 - Louis Le 2013-01-07 à 07:03, J99 <[email protected]> a écrit : > > I am developing a private chat (more like IM) with php+mysql backend that > keeps track of who talks with whom etc. There may be many users online (a few > 1000) and I don't want users to download a whole userlist everytime they > reload a page. Also I know that user has e.g. 5 threads opened so I want to > check only for these 5 users if they are online and get their pipe ID. Every > user also has his own profile page where I want to show a badge if he's > online or not. > > My current version works is made so that when user connects to APE server he > gets a whole userlist of currently connected users and then I have to do > foreach and search only for a single (or a few) users from that list that I > need... I don't think this is the best way, especially when number of online > users grows.. So I am looking for a solution how to make a webservice or smth > that will enable me to check for each user by username if he's online and get > his pipe ID. > > Is this possible? How can it be done? > > I am new to APE and I did only front-end development, the backend was left > intact but I guess that what I need is something that I will have to do on > backend, am I right? > > thank you! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "APE Project" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/ape-project?hl=en > --- > APE Project (Ajax Push Engine) > Official website : http://www.ape-project.org/ > Git Hub : http://github.com/APE-Project/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "APE Project" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ape-project?hl=en --- APE Project (Ajax Push Engine) Official website : http://www.ape-project.org/ Git Hub : http://github.com/APE-Project/
