onPlayerChat cancelEvent wont work

[zixxonx]

local function playerChat(message, messageType) 
    if getElementData ( source, "tempdata.mute" ) == true then 
        if messageType == 0 then 
                cancelEvent() 
        end 
    end 
end 
addEventHandler("onPlayerChat", root, playerChat) 

it wont to hide the message, i tested and it should work. also this ownt work

local function playerChat(message) 
                cancelEvent() 
end 
addEventHandler("onPlayerChat", root, playerChat) 

why?

[pa3ck]

Its server side, do you have that in your meta.xml?

[zixxonx]

That's server side and i have that file in my meta

[pa3ck]

Remove 'local' before the function name

[zixxonx]

i already did it but in still wont work

[TAPL]

You might have other resource that use outputChatBox combined with onPlayerChat.

A known resource do this is freeroam.