How do I get a players username into a local?

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#1

Hello,
I’ve been working on a project and I require to get the username of a player that joins into a local of a server sided script. I tried doing this:

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But it returns this error:
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How should I do this?

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#2

'Ello there!

Do you mind elaborating on what you are looking to achieve?

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#3

Yes, I’m making a GUI that only people in a group can access.

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#4

Ah, alright. Mind showing the current code that you have written and any errors?

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#5

Sure, but I must say there are many scripts in it including ModuleScripts and LocalScripts.

#6

This is the only error: b55f00269e8737e1f3d806d60ee56dea127f7e19

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#7

Try removing the currentUser variable? Unless you need to disconnect it later.

#8

Alright, I’ll see if that works.

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#9

Alright, mind showing your current code?

#10

The current whitelist:

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The MainModule: TwitLonger — When you talk too much for Twitter

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#11

Well, not sure if you can make a function a variable like that. Instead, make a local function, return the players name. Then make the function a variable. Also, it would be easier to just do the PlayerAdded event separate.

#12

Alright, how would I make the variable function in the local script, though?

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#13

You should rewrite this all into one function to handle one user per player connection.

#14

I could, however I plan to make this into a loadable ModuleScript with require().

Here is the entire tree of the GUI so far:
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#15

local function FetchPlayerName(Player)
return Player.Name
end

local PlayerName = FetchPlayerName()

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(FetchPlayerName)

print(PlayerName)

OR:

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
print(Player.Name)
end)

(May have messed something up, writing at 1am on mobile).

#16

This would usually be a great solution, but it does not work with my original plan, to find out the username of a player using the local element. It needs to work with this:
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#17

You could just check the if the player is in the group as they join.

#18

I’ll try doing that, thank you.

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#19

Here’s a simple solution to setting a “CurrentUser” for the script.

--// Services
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

--// Variables
local CurrentUser

--// Functions
--// When a new player is added to the server
local function OnPlayerAdded(Player)
	CurrentUser = Player
end

--// Call the OnPlayerAdded function
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(OnPlayerAdded)
#20

Hey!

local CurrentUsers = {}
local GroupId = 0000
local Bindable = Instance.new("BindableEvent") 

game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player) 
   CurrentUsers[Player.Name] = {CheckInGroup = false}
   Bindable:Fire("GroupCheck") 
end) 

Bindable.Event:Connect(function(args) 
if args == "GroupCheck" then
   for i,v in pairs(CurrentUsers) do
       if v["CheckInGroup"] == false and game:GetService("Players"):FindFirstChild(i):IsInGroup(GroupId) then
            v["CheckInGroup"] = true
            end
        end
    end
end) 


game:GetService("Players").PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(Player) 
    if CurrentUsers[Player.Name] then
        CurrentUsers[Player.Name] = nil
    end
end