help with writing to text file.

Garry's Mod coding
#1

im wondering how i will get it to read the players steam ID and everything else from a .txt file.

basically what i want is a function where, when the player joins, it finds their steam ID from a text file and everything else on the same line in the text file.

so if it were to save somebody’s steam ID and kills on the same line of a file called kills.txt
how would i get it to read both of those and retrieve both those things as seperate variables?

thanks i know this is probably complicated

#2

You could try something like this:

[lua]-- To make this all happen, we’re going to use a thing called GLON.
– GLON (Garry’s Mod Object Notation) is a way of storing tables as strings.

– Make the file if it doesn’t exist
if not file.Exists(“kills.txt”) then file.Write(“kills.txt”,glon.encode({})) end

– Write a player’s kills to a file
local function SaveKills(ply)

-- We use glon to decode the text from the kills.txt file
local data = glon.decode(file.Read("kills.txt"))

-- To store the data, the player's steamID is the key, and the kills is the value
data[ply:SteamID()] = ply:Frags()

-- You write the file after encoding the data with glon
file.Write("kills.txt",glon.encode(data))

end

– Get the kills a player has saved
local function GetKills(ply)

-- We use glon to decode the text from the kills.txt file
local data = glon.decode(file.Read("kills.txt"))

return data[ply:SteamID()]

end

– To put this to use, we could make concommand that prints their saved kills

local function PrintKills(ply)

-- Get the kills and print it to their chat
ply:ChatPrint("You had " .. GetKills(ply) .. " kills on this server last time.")

end

– Make the concommand
concommand.Add(“PrintKills”,PrintKills)[/lua]

#3

something like what? the code is just instantly dissappearing when the page loads.

[editline]08:15AM[/editline]

nevermind just screenied before it disappeared again. thank you very much.

#4

It does it for people with internet explorer get firefox

#5

unfortunately i cant. my internet explorer is bugged it wont let me install anything.

#6

Google Chrome

#7

That makes no sense, your browser can’t inhibit you from installing things.

#8

well for some reason it wont let me install stuff, add favourite websites, copy and paste and the blue bar at the top that should have text is empty

#9

It seems you have the case of a ton of virus/spyware.:eng101:
I’d advise scanning with Spybot or a similar program. If you can’t download it put it on an USB stick or something similar.