Specifying user options

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# 2.2. Specifying user options

User options are set with a simple XML-like syntax in the form:

       <user nick="NICK" option="VALUE">

Remember, the nick is always required. For example to add aliases to a nick, then you could do this:

        <user nick="Joe" alias="Joe^*">

The asterix (*) means that it will match all nicks starting with 'Joe^'. So it will add all Joe^'s to 'Joe' in the stats. Another thing you can do is to add a picture to a user:

        <user nick="Ben" pic="ben_holiday.jpg">

If you have a larger picture of the user as well, you can make the picture on the stats page link to it:

         <user nick="Ben" pic="ben_holiday.jpg" bigpic="ben-big.jpg">

You can also set a user's sex:

        <user nick="Ben" sex="m">

Also you can add links to URLs and e-mails:

        <user nick="Christine" link="http://www.christine.com">

or

        <user nick="Chris" link="chris@host.com">

The last thing you can do is to ignore nicks (for example bots):

        <user nick="nameofbot" ignore="y">

You don't have to do all this in many lines, you could just as easily do:

        <user nick="Joe" alias="Joe^away Joe^work" pic="joe.jpg" link="joe@joe.com" sex="m">

(Here the aliases are a space separated list of nicks, that also works! But * as a wildcard is smarter, although it is slower).

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