Staffchat

[marty000123]

Hey guys

I'm looking for a chat where only people from the ACL group ''Staff'' can talk in.

They can only use the chat, and they can only read the chat.

I'd like to get the command /s (staffchat).

The reason is that it's annoying to start up the staff panel and press Admin Chat to talk with staff only.

That's why I'm requesting this chat command.

Thanks in advance!

Marty

(Please tell me if it's client sided or server! )

[tosfera]

First of all; it's a server sided script. No need to do this client sided, there's actually no easy way to do this. You'll have to set data if someone is staff or not and all that crap.

To make it easy, just create a loop trough all the players and see if they are in the ACL group "staff", then output the message. To use the command, they should also be in the group. A small example;

addCommandHandler ( "staffchat", 
    fuction ( thePlayer, _, ... ) 
        if ( isObjectInACLGroup ( thePlayer, "staff" ) ) then 
            for i, p in ipairs ( getElementsByType ( "player" ) ) do 
                if ( isObjectInACLGroup ( p, "staff" ) ) then 
                    outputChatBox ( "[staff] ".. getPlayerName ( p ) ..": ".. table.concat({...}, " "), p, 0, 0, 120 ) 
                end 
            end 
        end 
    end 
) 

[Anubhav]

  
addCommandHandler ( "staffchat", 
    fuction ( thePlayer, _, ... ) 
        if ( isObjectInACLGroup ( "user."..getAccountName(getPlayerAccount(thePlayer)), "staff" ) ) then 
            for i, p in ipairs ( getElementsByType ( "player" ) ) do 
                if ( isObjectInACLGroup ( "user."..getAccountName(getPlayerAccount(p)) "staff" ) ) then 
                    outputChatBox ( "[staff] ".. getPlayerName ( p ) ..": ".. table.concat({...}, " "), p, 0, 0, 120 ) 
                end 
            end 
        end 
    end 
) 
  

If your nick wouldn't be acc could create problems.

[(s)ection]

  
addCommandHandler ( "staffchat", 
    fuction ( thePlayer, _, ... ) 
        if ( isObjectInACLGroup ( "user."..getAccountName(getPlayerAccount(thePlayer)), "staff" ) ) then 
            for i, p in ipairs ( getElementsByType ( "player" ) ) do 
                if ( isObjectInACLGroup ( "user."..getAccountName(getPlayerAccount(p)) "staff" ) ) then 
                    outputChatBox ( "[staff] ".. getPlayerName ( p ) ..": ".. table.concat({...}, " "), p, 0, 0, 120 ) 
                end 
            end 
        end 
    end 
) 
  

If your nick wouldn't be acc could create problems.

why "getPlayerName(p)" this will write the name of admin players its "getPlayerName (thePlayer)" ?

function not fuction

  
addCommandHandler ( "staffchat", 
    function ( thePlayer, _, ... ) 
        if ( isObjectInACLGroup ( "user."..getAccountName(getPlayerAccount(thePlayer)), "staff" ) ) then 
            for i, p in ipairs ( getElementsByType ( "player" ) ) do 
                if ( isObjectInACLGroup ( "user."..getAccountName(getPlayerAccount(p)) "staff" ) ) then 
                    outputChatBox ( "[staff] ".. getPlayerName ( thePlayer ) ..": ".. table.concat({...}, " "), p, 0, 0, 120 ) 
                end 
            end 
        end 
    end 
) 
  

??? ( dont know if its correct )

[marty000123]

  
  
addCommandHandler ( "s", 
    function ( thePlayer, _, ... ) 
        if ( isObjectInACLGroup ( "user."..getAccountName(getPlayerAccount(thePlayer)), "Staff" ) ) then 
            for i, p in ipairs ( getElementsByType ( "player" ) ) do 
                if ( isObjectInACLGroup ( "user."..getAccountName(getPlayerAccount(p)) "Staff" ) ) then 
                    outputChatBox ( "[staff] ".. getPlayerName ( p ) ..": ".. table.concat({...}, " "), p, 0, 0, 120 ) 
                end 
            end 
        end 
    end 
) 
  
  

I tested it and put it in my server.lua, uploaded it, did /s blahblah and it didnt work, nothing happened.

Any idea's?

[The Killer]

check if there any group named 'Staff' in ACL

[tosfera]

People are right, the getPlayerName ( p ) should be getPlayerName ( thePlayer ). Another thing, make sure the player is logged in. Else it'll just not work.

Sorry for the typo's with function and the p, lmao.

[joaosilva099]

It dont work bcs you have.to change " Staff" acl name to aclGetGroup("Staff")