welcome message

[toxicsmoke11]

script

function greetings() 
local joinedPlayerName = getPlayerName ( source ) 
if getPlayerName( "mike" ) then 
outputChatBox( "Welcome Mike!" ) 
end 
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerJoin", getRootElement(), greetings ) 

error:

mike.lua:8: end expected to close 'function' line 1 near

[xXMADEXx]

You forgot to end the if statement and function.

function greetings() 
    local joinedPlayerName = getPlayerName ( source ) 
    if ( joinedPlayerName == 'mike' ) then 
        outputChatBox( "Welcome Mike!" ) 
    end 
end 
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerJoin", getRootElement(), greetings ) 

[Renkon]

function greetings() -- Here you define the function 
     local joinedPlayerName = getPlayerName ( source ) -- You are getting the player name and storing it in memory 
     --if getPlayerName( "mike" ) then This line is wrong, getPlayerName requires an argument pointing to a player, in this case that's a string and not a pointer, if you want to compare it should be like the following 
     if (joinedPlayerName == "Mike") then -- You can also do if (getPlayerName(source) == "Mike") to avoid using server's memory 
          outputChatBox( "Welcome Mike!" ) -- printing a message 
     end -- If is being closed here 
end -- You missed an end statement in order to close the function 
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerJoin", getRootElement(), greetings ) 

[toxicsmoke11]

Thank you xXMADEXx for fixing the script,and thank you Renkon for explaining to me which line does what.