function findName()

[Mark Sir Link]

Use: Find and return a player prioritized by:

1.) Account Name
2.) Display Name

this is used due to the fact that new Graal Online accounts display as
Graal######.


Not a difficult script, but one of conveinence. Please enjoy, if you do copy and paste verbatim, I do not need acknowledgement.

Enjoy!

NPC Code:

---

function findName(playername)

  {

  for(i = 0; i < players.size(); i++)

    {

    if(players[i].account.starts(playername))

      {

      temp = players[i];

      break;

    }

    if(players[i].nick.starts(playername))

      {

      temp = players[i];

      break;

    }

  }

  return temp;

}

---

[Chompy]

You should use allplayers tho..

Crow added something like this on Esteria, he did the getAccountName() one..

PHP Code:

public function getAccountName(community) {
  temp.getaccount = 0;
  
  for (temp.i: allplayers) {
    if (i.communityname == cname) {
      getaccount = i.account;
    }
  }
  return getaccount;
}
// hehe, ty Napo
public function getCommunityName(acct) {
  return findplayer(acct).communityname;
} 


but personally with your scrit I would do:

PHP Code:

public function findName(n) {
  temp.out = 0;
  for(temp.i : allplayers) {
    if(i.account.pos(n) > -1) {
      out = {i.account, i.communityname};
      break;
    }else if (i.communityname.pos(n) > -1) {
      out = {i.account, i.communityname};
      break;
    }
  }
  return out;
} 


would return an array of "<acct>, <communityname>"

[napo_p2p]

Originally Posted by Chompy

You should use allplayers tho..

Crow added something like this on Esteria, he did the getAccountName() one..

Hmm... for getCommunityName, couldn't you just do:

PHP Code:

function getCommunityName(acct) {
  return findplayer(acct).communityname;
} 


???

I'm new to the whole new community name/Graal##### accounts, but that looks like it should work.

[Chompy]

Originally Posted by napo_p2p

Hmm... for getCommunityName, couldn't you just do:

PHP Code:

function getCommunityName(acct) {
  return findplayer(acct).communityname;
} 


???

I'm new to the whole new community name/Graal##### accounts, but that looks like it should work.

Hmm, it should work O.o
lol, never thought of that xD

But this would be solved if Stefan added communityname compatibility to findplayer()..

[Mark Sir Link]

Goal wasn't community name, it is in game nickname, which will make spoofing possible but pretty hard.

(scratch that, people couldn't create new accounts to steal nicknames...)

[Googi]

Is it possible for a player to have their community name be the same as the account name of a player who signed up before numbered accounts were instituted?

[napo_p2p]

Originally Posted by Googi

Is it possible for a player to have their community name be the same as the account name of a player who signed up before numbered accounts were instituted?

I remember seeing a post by Stefan saying that the community name is automatically the same as the account name if the account is not a numbered account. So, I am guessing no.

[Admins]

Originally Posted by Googi

Is it possible for a player to have their community name be the same as the account name of a player who signed up before numbered accounts were instituted?

That's not possible, we might delete some unused trial accounts sometime though, that would unblock some interesting names.

[bscharff]

You should have some sort of auto-deleter.
If someone signs-up and has no activity for a month, then their account is deleted.

[Inverness]

Originally Posted by bscharff

You should have some sort of auto-deleter.
If someone signs-up and has no activity for a month, then their account is deleted.

For trial accounts only.

[napo_p2p]

Originally Posted by Inverness

For trial accounts only.

Dur!

[Admins]

Well trial accounts cannot set their community name anyway.

[bscharff]

But for like old members that have run out of all of their subscriptions...
How can I explain it...

Like, if they haven't played in a month and have no subscriptions then delete their account so other paying players that want interesting names can have them.

[napo_p2p]

Originally Posted by bscharff

But for like old members that have run out of all of their subscriptions...
How can I explain it...

Like, if they haven't played in a month and have no subscriptions then delete their account so other paying players that want interesting names can have them.

No, no, no.

It's common for people to not play for an extended period of time, then return.

Also, let's say you quit, and then your subscriptions expire and your account is deleted. Would you like it if someone bought an account and used your account name, and started posing as you? Probably not.

[cbk1994]

Looks like this got pretty off track, but I'll share the one I made for Utopia.


Script class_findname:

PHP Code:

public function findName( i )
{
  this.look = { "account", "communityname", "nick", "id" };
  
  for ( temp.a : allplayers )
  {
    for ( temp.n : this.look )
    {
      if ( makevar( "temp.a." @ temp.n ) == i )
      {
        return temp.a.account;
      }
    }
  }
  
  for ( temp.a : allplayers )
  {
    for ( temp.n : this.look )
    {
      if ( makevar( "temp.a." @ temp.n ).starts( i ) )
      {
        return temp.a.account;
      }
    }
  }
  
  return "Error!";
} 


[Skyld]

Originally Posted by cbkbud

PHP Code:

return "Error!"; 


PHP Code:

return false; 


Returning false makes it easier to do a quick negative check:

PHP Code:

if (!this.findName("foo")) 


3,000th post and this is all I had to say?

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Skyld

PHP Code:

return false; 


Returning false makes it easier to do a quick negative check:

PHP Code:

if (!this.findName("foo")) 


3,000th post and this is all I had to say?

You are too picky!

I used that because on my server I was testing it, and I never really changed it ...

I had it on Error! so it would show that in the NPC-Server when I did /npc find plyr

[Inverness]

New function: findplayerbycommunityname(string)

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Inverness

New function: findplayerbycommunityname(string)

And that returns a player object I assume?

[napo_p2p]

Originally Posted by cbkbud

And that returns a player object I assume?

What else would it return?

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by napo_p2p

What else would it return?

The account, name, rank, serial number?

[Inverness]

Originally Posted by cbkbud

The account, name, rank, serial number?

Use some common sense please, its obviously related to findplayer() which returns the player object so its obvious that this would return the player object too, considering its named findplayerbycommunityname(). However it simply returns the one with matching community name rather than matching account.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Inverness

Use some common sense please, its obviously related to findplayer() which returns the player object so its obvious that this would return the player object too, considering its named findplayerbycommunityname(). However it simply returns the one with matching community name rather than matching account.

Sorry, didn't realize that. I was way out of line for asking a question like that!

[Inverness]

Originally Posted by cbkbud

Sorry, didn't realize that. I was way out of line for asking a question like that!

Yes, best learn to use common sense.