I see what you're saying but the chat box popup is totally independent of yaBB when running and doesn't link to the tables. So I don't want to write a function in the shout box simply to extract a username. As you can see from the example, it works OK in TINY CHAT but I can not pick up the user in BIG CHAT...
I spose I'm looking to set a single string value cookie from BoardIndex.php and read the cookie from the chat box but doing this elonquently is my problem.
A solution in php would be great too...
My Plan...
Essentially I want to write a cookie from BoardIndex, read it from my popup so that it can be used as the username in a <form> that writes to a text file for the chat box in a popup. The popup uses an iFrame that calls a PHP file that formats a text file and loads it.
(The reason: simply by calling a different text file I can effectively have rooms. This method has proven to be very FAST and without needing full screen refresh...)
That all makes sense I'm sure... (doesn't it?)