creating an admin-reports counter

[Zealot35]

I'll be honest, I found this system online. I know some basic lua, but not enough to know what to do in this situation. What I need to create is a "counter" for how many reports that a staff member has completed. For instance, this is a snippet of what happens when the user clicks "finish report":
if s == "finish" then
local i = net.ReadInt(32)
vReports[i] = nil
for k,v in pairs(player.GetAll()) do
if AdminsR[v:GetUserGroup()] then
net.Start("vAUpdate")
net.WriteTable(vReports)
net.Send(v)
end
end
end

(This is server-side)
I know that I would have to create a table for the SteamIDs of each staff member in a separate script, and then relay which player is clicking the finish button in the first place (I have the identifier named ply) but how would i force it to store that data in the first place?

And yes, I've searched for stuff that would answer my question, but I haven't been around lua enough to know exactly what to look for and I'd rather not spend an hour or two combing through the lua database for gmod.

[Zealot35]

well fuck me, i think i did exactly what i said i didn't want to do and made a damn file system.
for anyone else interested in doing something like this here's the tutorial i followed:
File Based Storage
and here's the link to the reports system I'm using. its basic, but pretty reliable i think:
https://garrysmods.org/download/60238/cg-report-system-v01
The addition I made to make the tutorial work for the reports system is this:
First, navigate to lua/autorun/server and make a new .lua file (I named mine report_amount_sv.lua)
Then, use the tutorials' code in there. Make sure you customize your variables to do what you want.
After that, open up report_sv.lua and at the bottom edit this:

if s == "finish" then
local i = net.ReadInt(32)
vReports[i] = nil
for k,v in pairs(player.GetAll()) do
if AdminsR[v:GetUserGroup()] then
net.Start("vAUpdate")
net.WriteTable(vReports)
net.Send(v)
end
end
end
and make it look like this:
if s == "finish" then
local i = net.ReadInt(32)
vReports[i] = nil
for k,v in pairs(player.GetAll()) do
if AdminsR[v:GetUserGroup()] then
net.Start("vAUpdate")
net.WriteTable(vReports)
net.Send(v)
ply.reports = ply.reports + 1
end
end
end
reports is the variable name I used. Make sure to change that to what you have.

Damn, I hate answering myself.