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Detect a player's name & Place it somewhere in the script? [lol hard to explain]

Asked Mar 27, 2018261 views2 answers

Basically, I can't figure out how to "detect" the player's name and have "PlayersNameHere" be the player's name.

game.Workspace.PlayerHolder.PlayersNameHere

I tried this.

local MarketplaceService = Game:GetService("MarketplaceService")

MarketPlaceService.ProcessReceipt = function(player)
	local plrname = player.name
	local gwpn = game.Workspace.PlayerHolder
	gwpn.plrname.Humanoid.Walkspeed = 25
	return Enum.ProductPurchaseDecision.PurchaseGranted
end

(not a localscript) (a serverside script)

AnonymousMar 27, 2018Edited Mar 27, 2018

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Have you tried using connect()?

AnonymousMar 27, 2018#

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I would recommend reading Roblox Wiki - Leaderboards(Exploiting section) It'll give you some information to secure your purchases among other things.

I also took a gander here Roblox Wiki - MarketplaceService

-- find the player based on the PlayerId in receiptInfo
local player = game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayerByUserId(receiptInfo.PlayerId)
if not player then -- Seems like we can't find the player... already left?
	return Enum.ProductPurchaseDecision.NotProcessedYet -- Can't process
 end

The way I would save the name is when the player first joins the game. Have a running table store their data.

local playersData = {}

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	playersData[Player.UserId] = Player.Name
end)

AnonymousMar 27, 2018Permalink

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What does leaderboards have todo with securing my purchases?

AnonymousMar 27, 2018#

I specifically wrote "Exploiting section". But if that doesn't make sense as to how it would secure your purchases then ignore it.

AnonymousMar 27, 2018#

And you linked me the "Leaderboards(Exploiting section)" "LEADERBOARDS"

AnonymousMar 27, 2018#

http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=LEADERBOARDS <<<<<<< Directly from your post

AnonymousMar 27, 2018#

You can use obj["string"] to find a child of obj called string, it's the same as doing obj.string

So, you would put game.Workspace.PlayerHolder[plrname] to do what you're trying to do.

Also, I don't believe your 3rd line would work, since ProcessReceipt is an event, you have to connect the event to a function for it to work. Change line 3 to

function processReceipt(player)

and add this code to the bottom of your script

MarketPlaceService.ProcessReceipt:connect(processReceipt)

AnonymousMar 27, 2018Edited Mar 27, 2018Permalink

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Didin't seem to do anything really.

AnonymousMar 27, 2018#

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