Looping players with for loop

[i514x]

HI, I've been playing SA-MP for a while now but never knew MTA is just so freaking awesome. So now I play MTA SA and I started making my own server, Lua is a bit of pain coz of the syntax but i'm getting a hang of it. My question is how can I loop through all players in a for loop? What I want accomplish is make a getPlayerSource function by player's name.

@Edit: I have found getDeadPlayers and getAlivePlayers but no such function as getPlayers, if I join those tables would it be ok? Anyways is there any better way?

[TwiX!]

u want get all players?

getPlayerCount () 

not?

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/GetPlayerCount

all players

local players = getElementsByType ( "player" ) 

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/GetElementsByType

[TAPL]

for id, player in ipairs(getElementsByType("player")) do 
-- your code here 
end 

and maybe you mean

getPlayerFromName 

[i514x]

local players = getElementsByType ( "player" ) 

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/GetElementsByType

for id, player in ipairs(getElementsByType("player")) do 
-- your code here 
end 

Thats what I meant

getPlayerFromName 

Yeah I wanted to make that function but didn't know it actually exists, MTA has so many functions compared to SA-MP

[arezu]

So now I play MTA SA and I started making my own server, Lua is a bit of pain coz of the syntax but i'm getting a hang of it.

Pawn looks like Java and c, and Lua looks like... action script.

Do you seriously mean that Pawn is easier than Lua? Pawn doesn't even look like a scripting language .

[TwiX!]

getPlayerFromName 

Yeah I wanted to make that function but didn't know it actually exists, MTA has so many functions compared to SA-MP

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/GetPlayerFromName