Basically I downloaded this source codes and I tried adding my own session so if the users are logged in they don't have to type a nick. However its not working.
$_session['username'] stores the loggedin persons name.
<?php
session_start();
include 'config.php';
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","monsters_ck","6789king");
if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db("monsters_ck", $con);
$message=$_POST['message'];$sender= $_SESSION['username'];
mysql_query("INSERT INTO message(message, sender)VALUES('$message', '$sender')");
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "[url="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd%22>"]http://www.w3.org/TR...nsitional.dtd">[/url]
<html xmlns="[url="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml%22>"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">[/url]
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Simple Chat</title>
<script language="javascript" src="jquery-1.2.6.min.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" src="jquery.timers-1.0.0.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
var j = jQuery.noConflict();
j(document).ready(function()
{
j(".refresh").everyTime(1000,function(i){
j.ajax({
url: "Chat/refresh.php",
cache: false,
success: function(html){
j(".refresh").html(html);
}
})
})
});
j(document).ready(function() {
j('#post_button').click(function() {
$text = $('#post_text').val();
j.ajax({
type: "POST",
cache: false,
url: "Chat/save.php",
data: "text="+$text,
success: function(data) {
alert('data has been stored to database');
}
});
});
});
j('.refresh').css({color:"green"});
});
</script>
<style type="text/css">
.refresh {
border: 1px solid #3366FF;
border-left: 4px solid #3366FF;
color: green;
font-family: tahoma;
font-size: 12px;
height: 225px;
overflow: auto;
width: 400px;
padding:10px;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
}
#post_button{
border: 1px solid #3366FF;
background-color:#3366FF;
width: 100px;
color:#FFFFFF;
font-weight: bold;
margin-left: -105px; padding-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px;
cursor:pointer;
}
#textb{
border: 1px solid #3366FF;
border-left: 4px solid #3366FF;
width: 320px;
margin-top: 10px; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; width: 415px;
}
#texta{
border: 1px solid #3366FF;
border-left: 4px solid #3366FF;
width: 410px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
padding:5px;
}
p{
border-top: 1px solid #EEEEEE;
margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px;
}
span{
font-weight: bold;
color: #3B5998;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form method="POST" name="" action="">
<input name="sender" type="text" id="texta" value="<?php echo $uid ?>"/>
<div class="refresh">
<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","monsters_ck","6789king");
if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db("monsters_ck", $con);
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM message ORDER BY id DESC");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo '<p>'.'<span>'.$row['sender'].'</span>'. ' ' . $row['message'].'</p>';
}
mysql_close($con);
?>
</div>
<input name="message" type="text" id="textb"/>
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Chat" id="post_button" />
</form>
</body>
</html>