SetPlayerName: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 20:27, 6 August 2019

This function changes the specified player's name. Note that any change made to a players name with this function is not saved in their settings so the name change only lasts till they disconnect.

Syntax

bool setPlayerName ( player thePlayer, string newName )

OOP Syntax Help! I don't understand this!

Method: player:setName(...)

Variable: .name

Counterpart: getPlayerName

Required Arguments

thePlayer: the player that will have its name set.
newName: the new name to set for the player.

Returns

Returns true if the player name was changed succesfully, false if invalid arguments are specified.

Limits

Only ASCII characters between 33 and 126 are allowed (basic latin, no spaces):

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~

Minimal player name length is 1 character.
Maximum player name length is 22 characters.
Player names are case-insensitive. It is not possible to have two clients with same name but different character case.

Example

Click to collapse [-]

Server

This example adds a tag before a player's nickname via a /changetag command


-- Define the function for this command (/changetag, as defined below)
-- source = the player that triggered this command
-- command = the command passed into the function (changetag)
-- thePlayer = the player that you wish to add a tag to
-- tag = the tag to add to the players nickname
function tagPlayer ( source, command, thePlayer, tag )
	-- Attempt to grab the element id for the player from the parsed name.
	local sPlayerElement = getPlayerFromName ( thePlayer )
	-- Check to see if the player were changing the tag for exists.
	if ( sPlayerElement ) then
		-- make sure that the element type of thePlayer is acctually pointing to a player element
		if getElementType ( sPlayerElement ) == "player" then
			-- we store the player's current name,
			local oldName = getPlayerName ( sPlayerElement )
			-- append the tag passed to this function before it
			local taggedName = tag .. oldName
			-- then set it as his new name
			setPlayerName ( sPlayerElement, taggedName )
			-- Tell the player who triggerd the command that the tag has been applied
			outputChatBox ( "Player " .. thePlayer .. "'s tag changed to " .. taggedName, source )
		end
	else
		-- Tell the player who triggerd the command that the player could not be found
		outputChatBox ( "Unable to change player tag: Player " .. thePlayer .. " not found", source )
	end
end
-- Add a command handler for either the console or / chat commands
-- Example: /changetag <playername> <tag>
addCommandHandler ( "changetag", tagPlayer )

This example allows you to check if string is valid mta nickname

function isNicknameValid(nick)
  for _, codepoint in utf8.next, nick do
    if(codepoint < 33 or codepoint > 126)then
      return false
    end
  end
  return true
end

@@ Line 60: / Line 60: @@
 </syntaxhighlight>
 </section>
+This example allows you to check if string is valid mta nickname
+<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
+function isNicknameValid(nick)
+  for _, codepoint in utf8.next, nick do
+    if(codepoint < 33 or codepoint > 126)then
+      return false
+    end
+  end
+  return true
+end
+</syntaxhighlight>
 ==See Also==
 {{Player functions}}
 [[ru:setPlayerName]]