I am making a votekick system and need help getting the player that is supposed to be votekicked.
-- Client Side
-- the client side works fine
player.Chatted:Connect(function(Text)
if string.sub(Text, 1, 10) == ";votekick " or string.sub(Text, 1, 10) == ";Votekick " or string.sub(Text, 1, 10) == ";VOTEKICK "then
local Suspect = string.sub(Text, 11)
local Charamount = string.len(Suspect)
game.ReplicatedStorage.VoteKick:FireServer(Suspect, Charamount)
end
end)
-- Server Side
game.ReplicatedStorage.VoteKick.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(Victim, Suspect, Datafile)
for i,Witnesses in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
if Witnesses.Name:sub(1, Datafile) == Suspect then
-- here is where I need help
-- I want to know how I can find the player that the (Suspect) is
-- local done = (Witnesses.Name:sub(1, Datafile) == Suspect)
-- I tried doing this local but it didn't seem to work
-- Any solutions???
game.ReplicatedStorage.VoteKick:FireAllClients()
else
print("no wintesses")
end
end
end)
The client-side can easily be transferred over to the server by doing:
local command = ";votekick "
function GetPlayer(name)
for _, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
if player.Name:lower() == name then
-- "Name" has to be the exact player name
return player
end
end
end
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
player.Chatted:Connect(function(Text)
if string.sub(Text, 1, 10):lower() == command then --doesnt matter if its ";VoTeKick" will still register because the string is lowered to all common letters using string.lower(string) or str:lower()
local Suspect = string.sub(Text, 11)
local SuspectPlayer = GetPlayer(Suspect)
print(SuspectPlayer)
--SuspectPlayer would be the player that was called out to be votekicked, fire to all clients or do whatever you'd like
end
end)
end)
No need for remote events.
P.S -
I’m not sure if this is gonna work, if it errors or doesn’t work, please come back.
There’s another way to do it but I didn’t want to confuse you.
Hello there, Slayec! First of all, your second line is useless. Instead, you could simply change it to if string.sub(Text, 1, 10):lower() == ";votekick ".
Second thing, I personally wrote a vote kick system which is perfectly working. Here’s the script:
-- Personally, I'm never using ``string.sub``, so I'm using a table instead.
function GetName(PartialName) -- This function will return the full name of a player.
local PlayersTable = {}
for i, v in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
PlayersTable[i] = v.Name
end
local Length = string.len(PartialName)
local Sub = string.sub(PartialName, 1 ,Length)
local Target = nil
for index = 1, #PlayersTable do
local PlayerFound = string.sub(PlayersTable[index], 1, Length)
if Sub == PlayerFound then
Target = PlayersTable[index]
end
end
return Target
end
-- Example: warn(GetName(Hyp))
--> HyperD3v
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
Player.Chatted:Connect(function(Message)
local Arguments = {}
for Argument in string.gmatch(Message,"[^%s]+") do
table.insert(Arguments, Argument)
end
if Arguments[1]:lower() == ";votekick" then -- If the message starts by ``;votekick``
if Arguments[2] ~= nil then -- If a second argument is given
local Suspect = GetName(Arguments[2])
if Suspect then -- If the player is found in the server
game.ReplicatedStorage.VoteKick:FireServer(Suspect)
else
warn("No player were found!") -- No player found.
end
end
end
end)
end)
