Integrating username into yshout shoutbox

[apinner]

Hi,

I am currently trying to integrate the yshout shoutbox (http://yurivish.com/yshout/) into an existing forum. Its easy enough getting the shoutbox to display using an iframe but the 'Nickname' box on the shoutbox is just a text field that anyone can fill in with anything. This obviously causes problems with moderation etc as people can chat using any name.

I am trying to replace that field with the users forum username ie $bbuserinfo[username] but the shoutbox is hosted on a different domain/server to the rest of the forum. Is there a way to extract the users forum username from VB to be used in an external php script. :confused:

I have searched around and found very vague answers. Any help is always much appreciated.

[Dismounted]

The only way I can think of ATM would be to create a PHP page on the forum's server which prints out the username. Then on your shoutbox script, query that page.