findplayerbycommunityname
 

Hi,

so when should you use findplayer and when findplayerbycommunityname? o.o

Well, instead of saying.. uhm

'/join Graal884675' to join Graal884675's party, you send his community name serverside, then use findplayerbycommityname().account

just an example tho :p This is how I use it atm

findplayer() will work no matter what, but only on account names. If you want to make something that is more friendly to the players, generally you would go with findplayerbycommunityname(). Keep in mind, though, that this will not work for players who have not yet set a community name.

Nowadays, it is good to use both. For example, I found that with text-based commands, it is sometimes hard to go searching for the actual account name. Here's a function that allows you to use the 'account' that you see in the profile of the player:

I tend to use findPlayerByCommunityName() more often, now, since even if your account is Pre-Graal12345 and is an actual account name, it still uses that as your community name, and won't negatively affect finding of the target.

Biggest issue: It's way too long, even to assign once to a "pl" or what-have-you variable.

There's a chance it could negatively effect the finding of the target, because I believe that if a player has not yet set a community name, then findPlayerByCommunityName() doesn't work.

For example:
returns null.

There's a chance I'm wrong. I don't have the opportunity to test this at the moment :(.

Nah, it's fine with it. I personally haven't set a Community Name, never felt it necessary, but it works on myself, and appears to work also on friends of mine who allowed me to try out scripts on them.

It should be findPBCN(); :P

why? o.o

player.communityname never returns null as far as I know, never ever did for me on Zodiac. I believe it returns your account name if you haven't chosen a communityname yet.

What he said. As far as my tests go with this, it returns the account name if theres no community name chosen yet.

findplayerbycommunityname() is actually first checking for the account (because that is faster), and then trying to find a player with the community name matching the parameter. So it should work in any case - finds players by account name exactly like findplayer(), but also works if you provide a community name. May be findplayer() could be changed to do that as well, might only need to optimize it a little bit.