Sending TextBox.Text to server via RemoteEvent not working

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#23 
-- on client
remoteEvent:FireServer(textBox.Text) -- send to server

-- on server
local textPerPlayer = {}

remoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, text)
textPerPlayer[player] = text
end)

--somewhere else on server
local text = textPerPlayer[player] -- fetch text
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#24

I see, here’s the modified script:

Server Script

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local numberService = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("LotteryNumberService")
local LotteryCard = game:GetService("Lighting").LotteryCard -- this line is for later don't bother with it
local sendNumbertoServer = Instance.new("RemoteEvent")
sendNumbertoServer.Parent = ReplicatedStorage
sendNumbertoServer.Name = "LotteryNumberService"

local NumberMap = {}

local function onButtonPress(text)
    local playerNumber = tonumber(text)
	if playerNumber and playerNumber >= 0 and playerNumber <= 100 then
		NumberMap[player] = playerNumber
	end
end

sendNumbertoServer.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, text)
	onButtonPress(text)
end)

Local Script

local TextButton3 = script.Parent
local Players = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer.PlayerGui
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local GetNumberService = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("LotteryNumberService")
local TextBox = Players.ChatBox1.Frame.TextBox

TextBox:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Text"):Connect(function()
	TextBox.Text = TextBox.Text:gsub('%D+', '');
	TextBox.Text = TextBox.Text:sub(1,3);
end)

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	GetNumberService:FireServer(TextBox.Text)
end)

I did the number conversion from the server cuz strings are less expensive to send compared to 64 bit numbers

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#25

Shouldn’t the user see the input as numbers only? Let’s say the input is like hell018o, it should only appear as 018 in the textbox and not hell018o

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#26

OP already does that:

#27

Thank you everyone for your help. How would I know that the server received the number? Can I just print the text variable out or is that not possible? Do I have to make a seperate script fetching the number?

#28

On the server you can just print playerNumber

#29

The event sends the number? So you know its recieved?

#30

I guess I am tripping. Thought that:

Was on the Server-Code you posted because of:

#31

Huh. Guess it just still doesn’t work. Doesn’t throw any errors at me or anything either.

#32

where’d you get the player in NumberMap?

#33

If you add prints, what does the output show?

#34

You need to add a new param to that it’s wrong

local function onButtonPress(text, player)

onButtonPress(text, player)
#35

Huh? I’m adding a new element in the dictionary. So that whenever you wanna get the number the player sent when creating a note, you can just do NumberMap[player]. Also NumberMap is declared above the function somewhere

#36

Nothing. I’ve tried adding prints to every server script I’ve been given in this thread.

#37

Oh, okay. It’s just that it showed up as an unknown global.

#38

So not even right after:

I think you should create the RemoteEvent by yourself instead of script

#39

Problem is player is not defined anywhere.

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#40

What do you mean? The first parameter on OnServerEvent is always player

#41

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In the function, player is not passed so it’s inaccessible.

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#42

I already did as @bytesleuth told me to.