[fowlplay4]

Here's a neat function I wrote to help reduce the amount of duplication involved with determining if a player is online and if not load their account, and if they don't exist bail on them. It also properly destroys loaded from HDD accounts.

Basically it's like doing:

PHP Code:

with (findplayer("account")) { // except it will load the player if they're offline
  if (doesntexist) return;
  // your code
} 


The main functions (currently tweaked for use in onRCChat()):

PHP Code:

// Shortcut for processing that doesn't need to be done to offline accounts
function processOnlinePlayer(temp.pl, temp.func) {
  processPlayer(temp.pl, temp.func, true);
}

function processPlayer(temp.pl, temp.func, temp.nohd) {
  temp.op   = player.communityname ? player.communityname : player.account;
  temp.pobj = findplayer(temp.pl);
  temp.onhd = temp.pobj == NULL;
  if (temp.nohd && temp.onhd) {
    echo(format("Unable to find player %s, %s", temp.pl, temp.op));
    return;
  }
  temp.pobj = temp.onhd ? new TServerPlayer(@temp.pl) : temp.pobj;
  with (temp.pobj) {
    if (player.onlinetime > 0) { 
      temp.save = (@temp.func)(player, temp.op);
    } else {
      if (temp.op) {
        echo(format("Unable to find player %s, %s", temp.pl, temp.op));
      }
    }
  }
  if (temp.onhd) {
    if (temp.save) {
      temp.pobj.saveaccount();
    }
    temp.pobj.destroy();
  }
} 


Examples:

PHP Code:

function onCreated() {
  temp.func = function (temp.pl) {
    echo(player.account);
    echo(temp.pl.onlinetime);
    return false;
  };
  processPlayer("fowlplay4", temp.func);
}

// Echos
// fowlplay4
// 8727432 


PHP Code:

function onCreated() {
  // It passes two parameters to the function:
  // The player object
  // The original player's account (I.e. The player.account when called in onRCChat() first instance)
  temp.func = function (temp.pl, temp.op) {
    temp.pl.head = "head0.png";
    temp.pl.attr[1] = "";
    temp.pl.body = "body1.png";
    if (temp.op) echo(format("%s has reset %s's look!", temp.op, temp.pl.account));
    return true; // Necessary to save offline players.
  };
  processPlayer("fowlplay4", temp.func);
} 


You can even nest it in the function call too:

PHP Code:

function onCreated() {
  processPlayer("fowlplay4", temp.f = function (temp.pl) {
    echo(player.account);
    echo(temp.pl.onlinetime);
  });
}

// Echos
// fowlplay4
// 8727432 


Or use defined functions:

PHP Code:

function onCreated() {
  processPlayer("fowlplay4", this.test);
}

function test(temp.pl, temp.op) {
  echo(player.account);
  echo(temp.pl.onlinetime);
}