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[Vania]

Hello, I was browsing the documentation for this but couldnt find it.
How can you tell if a user is a guest or a registered user? (in AS3 and in the server)

I also have a doubt about PlayerObjects:
-If a player is not registered does he have a PlayerObject?
-If the answer is yes, is that object removed when the guest disconnects?

Thank you.

[Oliver]

Hello Vania,

There is no concept of guest and registered user in Player.IO. That's up to you to build on top (you can use QuickConnect for the user-registration/login part)

You supply a user-id in the connect() method, and we bind everything up to that. For instance, every unique user-id will get an associated PlayerObject, that we never delete.

Best,
Oliver

[Vania]

Hi Oliver, thank you for answering so quick.

1)
I am using QuickConnect already, already made the registration, login forms, etc... and its working.
For the time being I just keep a global variable 'isGuest' to know wheter the user has logged-in with quickconnect or without authentication, and I pass that to the server when joining a room. So, if thats the best way to do it thats cool.

2)
The other thing that is not clear to me is this:
-'guest' users (users that didnt connect with quickconnect) dont have a PlayerObject right?
-so if I try to access the PlayerObject for one of these users do I get an error?

[Benjaminsen]

All users connected to Player.IO are real users, no matter how you connect them, including the non QuickConnect method. Thus all users including "guests" have PlayerObjects.

A simple way to handle guests would be to just connect all guest users with the same UserID.

/Chris

[Vania]

Ahh, ok.
No conflict in connecting multiple users with the same account then.
And I can check if they're guests just by looking at the userid.

Thats clever. Thanks.