[ghanja]

Heading out the door, so untested to say the least:

makecustompetnamestable.sql

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `custom_petnames`;
CREATE TABLE `custom_petnames` (
  `charid` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `name` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`charid`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

/quests/default.pl (insert into existing)

sub EVENT_SPAWN {
	if (!$npc || $npc->GetSwarmOwner()) {
		if ($npc->GetOwnerID()) {
			if (defined plugin::FindPetName($npc->GetOwnerID())) {
				$npc->TempName(plugin::FindPetName($npc->GetOwnerID()));
			}
		}
	}
}

/quests/global/global_player.pl (insert into existing, working off of Tabasco's original code)

sub EVENT_SAY {
    if($text =~/^!petname/i) {
        my $pid = $client->GetPetID();
        my $pet = $entity_list->GetMobByID($pid);
        if($pet) {
            ($cm, $petname) = split(/\ /, $text, 2);
            if ($petname =~ m/[^a-zA-Z]/){
				$pet->TempName($petname);
				if (plugin::FindPetName($charid) != $petname) {
					plugin::EnterPetName($charid,$petname)
				}
			$client->Message(315, "Your pet name has been changed.");
            $client->Message(315, "This is a family friendly server.  Please be considerate when choosing a pet name.");
			}
        }
    }
}

/plugins/custompetnames.pl

sub EnterPetName {
	my $dbh = plugin::MySQL_Connect();
	$dbh->do("DELETE FROM `custom_petnames` WHERE `charid` = '$_[0]'");
	$sth = $dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO `custom_petnames` (`charid`, `petname`) VALUES (?, ?)");
	$sth->execute($_[0], $_[1]);
	$sth->finish();
	$dbh->disconnect();
}

sub FindPetName {
	my $entered_charid = $_[0];
	my $dbh = plugin::MySQL_Connect();
	my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT `petname` FROM `custom_petnames` WHERE `charid` = '".$entered_charid."' LIMIT 1;");
	$sth->execute();
	@data = $sth->fetchrow_array();
	$sth->finish();
	$dbh->disconnect();
	if ($data[0] == NULL) {
		return NULL;
	} else {
		return ($data[0]);
	}
}

May or may not work, untested and far from a master coder of things. But had 10 minutes before I had to leave out, it may help someone out. I'm very interested to see what Kingly draws up. *Thank you Kingly, I never bothered looking at the source to see qglobal value was const *char anymore (just sorta went by the way I knew them to be -- reading the changeme = a good thing), well then. My way is superfluous in that case.