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To Register:
If you have not yet registered and would like to, please choose the registration option. A small pop-up window will appear.
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First, create a username and a password for yourself by
typing it into the appropriate boxes. The username you choose is the
name that will be automatically displayed in the chat room. It cannot
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Second, please enter your first name, last name, and your
email address. In order to register to chat, all of this information
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If you have a homepage, you may enter the URL into the box.
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The language field may help other users in future discussions. They will know which language(s) you understand.
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Lastly,
if you wish to allow your email address to be viewed by other
participants, please check the box next to "show e-mail in public
information". If
you do not want your e-mail address to be viewable, leave the box
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Then, press the Register button and your account will be
created. If you wish to stop at any time without registering, press the
Close button.
Of course, registered users would be able to modify/delete their own profile by clicking on the appropriate links.
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To create a room:
Registered users can create rooms. Private ones can only be accessed by
users who know their name and will never been displayed except for
users that are in.
Room's name cannot contain comma or backslash (\).
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Sending messages:
To post a message to the chat room, type your text into the text box in
the lower left corner and then press the Enter/Return key to send it.
Messages from all users scroll in the chat box.
You may change the color of the text of your messages by choosing a new
color from the list of choices to the right of the text box.
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Understanding the users list (not for users popup window):
Two basic rules have been defined for the users list:
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a little icon that shows gender is displayed before the nick of a registered user (clicking on it will launch the
whois popup for this user), while unregistered users have nothing but blank spaces displayed before their nick;
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the nick of the administrator or of a moderator is italicized.
For example, from the snapshot bellow you can conclude that:
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Nicolas is the admin or one of the moderators of the phpMyChat room;
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alien (whose gender is unknown), Jezek2 and Caridad are registered users with no extra "power" for the phpMyChat room;
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lolo is a simple unregistered user.
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Leaving the chat room:
To exit the chat, simply click once on "Exit". Alternatively,
you may also enter the one of the following commands into your text box:
/exit
/bye
/quit
These commands may be completed with a message to be sent before you leave the chat room.
For example : /quit CU soon!
will sent the message "CU soon!" in the main frame then log you out.
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Knowing who is chatting without being logged in:
You may click on the link that shows the number of connected users at
the start page, or, if you are chatting, click on the image 
at the top-right of the screen to open a independent window that will
display the list of connected users, and the rooms they are in, in near
real time.
The title of this window contains the usernames, if they are less than three, the numbers of users and opened rooms else.
Clicking on the  icon at the top of this popup will enable/disable beeping sounds at user entrance.
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Help command:
Once inside a chat room, you can lauch a help popup by clicking on the  image that sits just before the message box. You can also type the "/help" or "/?" commands in the message box.
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Smilies:
You
may have graphical smilies inside your messages. See bellow the code
you have to type into a message to obtain each one of these similes.
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:D |
:o |
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;) |
:p |
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For example, sending the text "Hi Jack :)" without quote will display the message Hi Jack in the main frame.
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Text Formatting:
Text can be bolded, italicized or underlined by encasing the applicable
sections of your text with either the <B> </B>, <I>
</I> or <U> </U> HTML tags.
For example, <B>this text</B> will produce this text.
To create a hyperlink for an e-mail address or URL, type the address
(without any HTML tags). The hyperlink will be created automatically.
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Invite someone to join your current chat room:
You can use the invite command to invite an user to join the room you are chatting in.
For example: /invite Jack
will send a private message to Jack suggesting him to join you in your
current chat room. This message contains the name of the target room
and this name appears as a link.
Note that you can put more than one username in the invite
command (eg "/invite Jack,Helen,Alf"). They must be splitted by comma
(,) without spaces.
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Changing rooms:
The list to the right of the screen provides a list of chat
rooms and the users who are currently in that room. To leave the room
you are in and move into one of those rooms, simply click once on the
name of that room. Empty rooms do not appear on this list. You may move
into an empty room by typing the command "/join #roomname" without quotes.
For example: /join #RedRoom
will move you into the RedRoom.
If you're a registered user, you may also create a new room with
this same command. But then you have to specify its type: 0 stands for
private, 1 for public (default value).
For example: /join 0 #MyRoom
will create
a new private room (assuming a public one has not already been created
with that name) called MyRoom and move you into it.
Room's name cannot contain comma or backslash (\).
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Modifying his own profile inside the chat:
The Profile command creates a separate pop-up window in
which you can edit your user profile and modify it except your nick and
password (you have to use the link at the start page to do this).
Type /profile
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Recalling the last message or command you have submitted:
The ! command recalls the last message or command you have submitted.
Type /!
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Responding to a specific user:
Clicking once on the name of another user from the list (to the right
of the screen) will cause their "username>" to appear in your text
box. This feature allows you to easily direct a public message to a
user, perhaps in response to something he or she has posted above.
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Private messages:
To send a private message to another user currently in your chat room, type the command "/msg username messagetext" or "/to username messagetext" without quotes.
For example, where Jack is the username: /msg Jack Hi there, how are you?
The message will appear to Jack and yourself, but no other users will see the message.
Note that clicking on the nick of a message sender in the main
frame will automatically add this command to the input field for
messages.
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Actions:
To describe what you're doing you can use the command "/me action" without quotes.
For example: If Jack sends the message "/me is smoking a cigarette" the message frame will shown "* Jack is smoking a cigarette".
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Ignoring other users:
To ignore all of the posts by another user, type the command "/ignore username" without quotes.
For example: /ignore Jack
From that time onward, no messages by the user Jack will display on your screen.
To have a list of the users whose messages are ignored, just type the command "/ignore" without quotes.
To resume display of message by an ignored user, type the command "/ignore - username" without quotes where "-" is a hyphen.
For example: /ignore - Jack
Now all the messages by Jack posted during the current chat
session will be displayed on your screen, including those messages
posted by Jack before you typed this command.
If you don't specify an username after the hyphen, your "ignored list"
will be cleaned.
Note that you can put more than one username in the ignore
command (eg "/ignore Jack,Helen,Alf" or "/ignore - Jack,Alf"). They
must be splitted by comma (,) without spaces.
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Getting information about other Users:
To see public information about another user, type the command "/whois username" without quotes.
For Example: /whois Jack
where 'Jack' is the username. This command will create a
separate pop-up window that will display the publically available
information about that user.
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Save messages:
To export messages (notification ones excluded) to a local HTML file, type the command "/save n" without quotes.
For Example: /save 5
where '5' is the number of messages to save. If n is not specified, all
available messages sent to the current room will be taken into account.
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square on the right of the username (in the rooms/users list)
