Tips: Private Entrance               

You can create a private entrance that can be bookmarked and fully customized to fit the theme of your realm or city. If for example your City is Port Kar. You can theme the page to look like a pirate port. Put in links to information about port kar as well as links to all the available rooms. Like a mini site map. The possabilities are pretty endless.

Option 1 - Simple link to a specific room.

To have links to specific rooms you will need the following code:

<a href=http://soi.hyperchat.com/cgi-bin/soi.exe?room=soi>Welcome to Soi!</a>

Then anyone who clicks will show up in the chat site with the username "visitor". 
In this sample, link, they will arrive in room "soi".
If you want it to link to a jag room, chage where it says room=soi to for example, jagcork@jag

<a href=http://soi.hyperchat.com/cgi-bin/soi.exe?room=jagcork@jag>Jag Cork</a>
where soi is, you would put whatever room ID you need, followed by  its tail

Option 2 - Visitor ID and log in button.

If you want to get fancier, you can create a form in which they can enter their username, and then press a button.
Just like the main entrance for SOI

Welcome To... X

Enter a handle and hit the button:

Enter a handle and hit the button:

You can style the page any way you wish.
You simply have to make sure that the form code is included in the page.
The following is the code you need:

<form action ="http://soi.hyperchat.com/cgi-bin/soi.exe" method="GET">
<input type="hidden" name="vqvaa" value="directory">
<input type="hidden" name=room value="soi">
Enter a handle and hit the button:

<input type="text" size=16 name="vqxus" value="Visitor">

<input type="submit" name="vqvai" value="I Am 18 or Older">


</form>

The Hidden input line with the name "Room".
Changing this, will cause the person to enter the room specified.
In my example, I am bringing people into room "soi".

Option 3- Visitor ID, log in button and room options.

The next more advanced level is similair to the entrance page that I created for Jag. 
To make this, use the following code.



Then enter a name and hit the button:

I if I want to provide a selection of rooms,
I could use the <select> statement, inside the FORM, instead of the input line for parameter "room", as follows:
<select name="room">
<option value=soi>State of Insanity
<option value=soc>State of Confusion
<option value=soa>State of Affairs
</select>

This would then appear as follows: State of Insanity State of Confusion State of Affairs 
Notice the Room ID is listed as the value input (the thing that would go in the find box), followed by the name of the room. If you have any questions.. send me a MSG