OnPlayerJoin

This event is triggered when a player joins the server.

Parameters

The source of this event is the player who joined.

Example

This example gets the joined client's name and sends him a welcome message including his name.

-- we register greetPlayer as a handler for the event
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerJoin", getRootElement(), "greetPlayer" )
function greetPlayer ( )
	-- we store the player's name
	local joinedPlayerName = getClientName ( source )
	-- and send him a greeting
	outputChatBox ( "Welcome " ..joinedPlayerName.. " to the server!" , source, 255, 255, 255 )
end

See also

• getCancelReason
• triggerClientEvent
• triggerLatentClientEvent

Shared

• addEvent
• addEventHandler
• cancelEvent
• cancelLatentEvent
• getEventHandlers
• getLatentEventHandles
• getLatentEventStatus
• removeEventHandler
• triggerEvent
• wasEventCancelled