Passing player name from clientside from derma list as entity to server

[DovydasAL]

It's a bit hard to explain, but essentially, I have an f3 menu on the client side. This menu creates two columns, 1 for player names and 1 for faction name
So the rows come from the ply:Nick()
I know how to get the selected row's text for each column.
How do I turn that text into the actual player entity then pass it off to a module function.
If any of the code is needed, I can post it, but it's very separated.

[MysteryPancake]

You have to loop through all the players to check if their nickname is that string, there isn't really an easy way.

[editline]5th July 2016[/editline]

E.G.

local function GetPlayerFromName( name )
    for k,v in pairs(player.GetHumans()) do
        if v:Nick() == name then return v end
    end
end

^ Untested

[man with hat]

Just send the player itself. You are already looping through every player to display their name. You can use that same loop to associate the player object with the row.