setAccountData, key..

[Chris!i!]

setAccountData(playerAccount, "piraterpg.money", playerMoney)

I have read wiki of setAccountData but whats this piraterpg.money i didnt understand it.

if u need the code i made i can post it

[tosfera]

setAccountData is actually the same construct as setElementData, it just gets saved into the account from the player. The player has to be logged in before this'll work. The parameters are as following:

account theAccount, string key, mixed value 

Meaning that theAccount would be the account gotten with getPlayerAccount, the key is something you made up and the value is the actual value you want to give it. A few examples can be;

local playerAccount = getPlayerAccount ( thePlayer ) 
setAccountData ( playerAccount, "username", "John" ) 
setAccountData ( playerAccount, "password", "Doe" ) 
setAccountData ( playerAccount, "email", "[email protected]" ) 

[Chris!i!]

function onPlayerQuit() 
      local playeraccount = getPlayerAccount(source) 
       if (playerAccount) then 
            local walk = getPedWalkingStyle(source)  
            setAccountData(playeraccount, "walkingstyle", walk)  
      end 
end 
addEventHandler("onPlayerQuit", getRootElement(), onPlayerQuit) -- add an event handler 
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function onPlayerLogin() 
    local playerAccount = getPlayerAccount(source) -- get his account 
      if (playerAccount) then 
            local walk = getAccountData(playerAccount, "walkingstyle") 
            if (walk) then 
                  setPedWalkingStyle(source, walk) 
            end 
      end 
end 
addEventHandler("onPlayerLogin", getRootElement(), onPlayerLogin) 

Ok what should i do know since i didnt understand anything.

[Addlibs]

Think of the account data key as a variable or a Lua table key

[Army@1]

setAccountData(playerAccount, "piraterpg.money", playerMoney)

Here, 'piraterpg.money' is a key and 'playerMoney' money is a value.

The key can have any name 'acb', '12jsdhi', 'MyMoney', etc..

And the value can have things like player's weapon, money, position, rotation, health state, etc..

You can think of keys as variables and values as definitions.

Example:-

So lets say a player have $1650 cash when he quit the game.

And you want to give player the amount of money he left the game with, which is $1650, when he join the game again.

So when he quit, you would save his money by doing

  
playerMoney = getPlayermoney(player) -- player's money which is 1650 
playerAccount = getPlayerAccount(player) -- player's account 
setAccountData(playerAccount,"poorPlayerMoney",playerMoney) -- save player's money to his account with key 'poorPlayerMoney' 
  

And when he join, you would load his money by doing

  
playerAccount = getPlayerAccount(player) -- player's account 
playerMoney = getAccountData(playerAccount,"poorPlayerMoney") -- will return 1650 
givePlayerMoney(player, playerMoney) -- will give 1650 to player 
  

And I added comments to your last code.

  
function onPlayerQuit_handler() 
    local playerAccount = getPlayerAccount(source) -- get player account 
    if (playerAccount) then -- if player has an account or account exist 
        local walk = getPedWalkingStyle(source) -- get the current walking style of player and set it to variable 'walk'. 
    setAccountData(playerAccount, "walkingstyle", walk) -- save/set player's walking style in player's account [data] with key 'walkingstyle' 
    end 
end 
addEventHandler("onPlayerQuit", getRootElement(), onPlayerQuit_handler) -- trigger the function when player quit 
---------------------------------------------------- 
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function onPlayerLogin_handler() 
    local playerAccount = getPlayerAccount(source) -- get player account 
    if (playerAccount) then -- if player has an an account or account exist 
        local walk = getAccountData(playerAccount, "walkingstyle") -- load/get player's walking style with key 'walkingstyle' which was previously saved in his account 
        if (walk) then -- if player's account data exist with key 'walkingstyle' or succesfully got player's  account data with key 'walkingstyle 
            setPedWalkingStyle(source, walk) -- set player's walking style to it(previous one) 
        end 
    end 
end 
addEventHandler("onPlayerLogin", getRootElement(), onPlayerLogin_handler) -- trigger the function when player login 
  

Hope it helps.

Edited January 17, 2016 by Guest

[Addlibs]

setAccountData(playerAccount, "piraterpg.money", playerMoney)

Here 'piraterpg.money' is a key and 'playerMoney' money is a variable.

I find it more helpful to think of 'piraterpg.money' as a variable and playerMoney as its definition

[Army@1]

setAccountData(playerAccount, "piraterpg.money", playerMoney)

Here 'piraterpg.money' is a key and 'playerMoney' money is a variable.

I find it more helpful to think of 'piraterpg.money' as a variable and playerMoney as its definition

Oops, corrected.

[Chris!i!]

Okay thanks for letting me understand this so the key can be anything, okay i got it, i will test it after some minutes and tell you the result thank you everyone

[Chris!i!]

Still doesnt work.