[Help] taking account names of players

[djharbi2]

	local players = getElementsByType("player")
	for key, value in ipairs(players) do
		local username = string.lower(tostring(getAccountName(value)))
		if (string.find(username, string.lower(tostring(guiGetText(theEditBox))))) and (guiGetText(theEditBox)~="") then
			count = count + 1
			found = value
			foundstr = getAccountName(found)
			foundid = getElementData(found, "dbid")
		end
	end
	

 

my goal is to pull the players' accounts and have them checked

but here get Account Name does not mean

Edited March 21, 2018 by djharbi2

[Dimos7]

	local players = getElementsByType("player")
	for key, value in ipairs(players) do
		local username = string.lower(tostring(getAccountName(getPlayerAccount(value) )))
		if (string.find(username, string.lower(tostring(guiGetText(theEditBox))))) and (guiGetText(theEditBox)~="") then
			count = count + 1
			found = value
			foundstr = getAccountName(getPlayerAccount(found))
			foundid = getElementData(found, "dbid")
		end
	end
	

 

[MIKI785]

What about debug? You should be getting errors as you're trying to call getAccountName/getPlayerAccount - both are nil on the clientside. I suggest you store the account name using element data, then you may access it from the clientside.

[Pirulax]

Collect the data on server-side, send it to client-side.