Modules/bIRC/ircSetChannelMode

	This function is provided by the external module Basic IRC Module. You must install this module to use this function.

This function can be used to set a channel mode the specified channel. The specified ircbot has to be in that channel and often it needs to have suitable privileges.

Syntax

bool ircSetChannelMode ( ircbot theBot, string channel, string mode )

Required Arguments

• theBot: The ircbot which is in the channel
• channel: The name of the channel on which you want to set a channel mode
• mode: The channel mode string

Returns

Returns true.
Note: Does not return true if a channel mode was successfully set or false if it wasn't set. You can check if the channel mode was set by using callback event_ircOnChannelMode.

Example

This example creates an ircbot called DummyBot makes it connect to a server and join a channel. It also includes an IRC command '!limitusers' which can used to change the channel's maximum user limit.

function resourceStart ( )
    theBot = ircCreateBot ( "DummyBot" )
    ircConnect ( theBot, "irc.gtanet.com", 6667 )
end
addEventHandler ( "onResourceStart", getResourceRootElement ( getThisResource() ), resourceStart )

function event_ircOnConnect ( theBot )
    setTimer ( ircJoinChannel, 2000, 1, theBot, "#testchannel" )
end

function event_ircOnText ( theBot, channel, sender, message )
    if message:find( "!limitusers" ) then
        local params = split ( message, string.byte (' ') )
        -- params[1] has the string "!limitusers" which we don't need
        -- params[2] has the user count
        if tonumber( params[2] ) then -- check if it's a number, but don't convert it to a number
            ircSetChannelMode ( theBot, channel, "+l " .. params[2] )
        elseif params[2] == "off" then -- if user passes 'off' as the number, remove the limit
            ircSetChannelMode ( theBot, channel, "-l" )
        end
    end
end

See Also

Bot functions

Creation

• ircCreateBot
• ircDestroyBot

Connection

• ircConnect
• ircIsConnected
• ircRegister
• ircUnregister
• ircQuit

Other

• ircGetBotByName
• ircGetBots
• ircGetBotState
• ircGetName
• ircGetQuitMessage
• ircSetName
• ircSetQuitMessage

IRC functions

Channel

• ircGetChannelMode
• ircGetChannelTopic
• ircGetChannelUsers
• ircGetConnectedChannels
• ircJoinChannel
• ircPartChannel
• ircSetChannelMode
• ircSetChannelTopic

User

• ircGetUserHost
• ircGetUserMode
• ircIsInChannel

Communication

• ircBan
• ircInviteUser
• ircKick
• ircSendMessage
• ircSendNotice
• ircSendRaw

Other

• ircFormatHost
• ircStrip