How to get the username of a player in a server script

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#1

I am making a car spawner and am trying to get the username of the player who clicked it

local player

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	player = Player
end)
script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:connect(function(GetCar, player)
		local Mod = game.ServerStorage.lambo1     
	    local clone = Mod:clone()
	    clone.Parent = workspace
	    clone.name = player.name
		clone:MakeJoints()
	end)
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#2

Is script.Parent a click detector?

#3

it is (I need to type more to send this message)

#4
  1. You’re using the wrong event, it should be MouseClick instead of MouseButton1Click.
  2. The first argument passed is always the player, so that would be how you get the name.
#5

Just realized that it is a textbutton that is used to spawn the car

#7

yes it is a textbutton (fnekmn)

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#8

You should probably use a RemoteEvent for that if you’re wanting to detect when a UI Interface Event fires so that you can connect it from the client, onto the server to properly clone

Basically what a RemoteEvent is, is that it’s capable of handling client-server/server-client transportation easily and you can easily reference the Player that fired the Event

What you’ll need to do, is first create a RemoteEvent that’s inside the ReplicatedStorage, change your MouseButton1Click Event script to a LocalScript to fire onto the server, and create a new script inside ServerScriptService which will detect for those said “fired events”

--Client/LocalScript--

local Event = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("RemoteEvent")

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:connect(function() --MouseButton1Click has no parameters
    Event:FireServer() --We're firing this onto the server
end)

--Server Script inside ServerScriptService
local Event = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("RemoteEvent")
local Mod = game.ServerStorage:WaitForChild("lambo1")     

Event.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(Player) --By default, the Player that fired the event is automatically passed in so you don't need to worry about that
	local clone = Mod:clone()
	clone.Parent = workspace
	clone.Name = Player.Name
    clone:MakeJoints()
end)

Also keep in mind that Lua is case-sensitive, so you have to properly correct in the right formatting/capitalization for it to work

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