How do I remember/counting days in a script?

[Adde]

Hello, I have a question about a system I am going to create that should count/remember days. Because I am going to create a script that adds a player to an acl group when he buys amount of days ingame for ingame money and then removes him x days later. And the question is, how can I do that? ( with counting days ). I am most thinking about if server restarts, the player leave, script restarts, etc and the script will still do exactly as it was told from the beginning/when player bought days.

I hope that anyone can help me. Ask me more if you don´t understand what I mean.

[PotatoHead]

Not a pro at this but I am just suggesting a few things.

  
getAccountData 
setAccountData 
  

[denny199]

Not a pro at this but I am just suggesting a few things.

  
getAccountData 
setAccountData 
  

Thats for setting the data, just convert the day that the player will be removed from the ACL, and then check everytime the date when the player is logging in.

Let's take an example;

I'm buying sMod on your server, the data will store on my account until 01/09/2013, and i'm directly added to the ACL group.

I'm logging again in on 30/08/2013, the script will check and do nothing

I'm logging again in on 02/09/2013, the script will check again and will remove me from the list.

This function also might help you:

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/GetRealTime

Good luck

[Adde]

Thx!

Okay ( quick example ) so If I have:

local theDays = guiGetText ( editBox1 )

then I can do something like

function vipShop(thePlayer) 
local account = getPlayerAccount(thePlayer) 
local accountName = getAccountName(thePlayer) 
local time = getRealTime() 
local date = time.monthday 
if ( date = 1-1 ) and ( theDays = 10 ) then 
setAccountData(account, "1-11", VIPdate) 
aclGroupAddObject (aclGetGroup("VIP"), "user."..accountName)) 
end 
end 
end 
addEventhandler("onClientGUIClick", button1, vipShop) 

function checkRemoveDate(thePlayer) 
local account = getPlayerAccount(thePlayer) 
local accountName = getAccountName(thePlayer) 
local time = getRealTime() 
local date = time.monthday 
getAccountData(account,"VIPdate") 
if ( VIPdate = 1-11 ) and ( date = 1-11 ) then 
aclGroupRemoveObject(aclGetGroup("VIP"), "user."..accountName) 
else 
return 
end 
end 
end 
addEventHandler("onPlayerLogin", getRootElement, checkRemoveDate) 

or can I do it on a easier way? like using set the remove date ( 1-1 + 10 )?

I just remembered, "local theDays = guiGetText ( editBox1 )" i can´t use that in server side. Then i have to use triggerClientEvent right?

[Castillo]

You've got an error there, it's "addEventHandler" not "addEventhandler":

[Adde]

Wops, didn´t see that.

I got this far, open/close gui if player isn´t in acl group VIP and wrote some functions how I think that it should be and with no errors in debug. But no function will trigger.

I know that I have guiGetText server side, I know that it´s wrong and make server wont work. But I can´t figure out any other solution.

server

function addToACL() 
local account = getplayerAccount(thePlayer) 
local accountName = getAccountName(thePlayer) 
local number = guiGetText(editBox1) 
local time = getRealTime() 
local date = time.monthday 
local endDate = date+number 
setAccountData(account, "aclRemove", endDate) 
aclGroupAddObject(aclGetGroup("VIP"), "user."..accountName) 
end 
addEvent("buyVIP", true) 
addEventHandler("buyVIP", getRootElement(), addToACL) 
  
  
function removeFromACLGroup() 
local account = getPlayerAccount(thePlayer) 
local accountName = getAccountName(account) 
local removeDate = getAccountData(account,"aclRemove") 
local time = getRealTime() 
local todayDate = time.monthday 
if ( removeDate ) == ( todayDate ) then 
aclGroupRemoveObject (aclGetGroup("VIP"), "user."..accountName) 
else 
return 
end 
end 
addEventHandler("onPlayerLogin", getRootElement(), removeFromACLGroup) 
  
  
function theGUIshow(thePlayer) 
local account = getPlayerAccount(thePlayer) 
local accName1 = getAccountName(account) 
if ( not isObjectInACLGroup ("user."..accName1, aclGetGroup ( "VIP" ) ) ) then 
triggerClientEvent(thePlayer,"show", thePlayer) 
end 
end 
  
function BindHere() 
bindKey(source, "F5", "down", theGUIshow) 
end 
addEventHandler("onPlayerLogin",getRootElement(),BindHere) 

client

x, y = guiGetScreenSize() 
  
GUIEditor = { 
button = {}, 
window = {}, 
label = {}, 
edit = {} 
} 
  
VIPbuyPanel = guiCreateWindow(x*0.420, y*0.360, 228, 156, "VIP buy panel", false) 
guiWindowSetSizable(VIPbuyPanel, false) 
guiSetVisible(VIPbuyPanel, false) 
guiSetAlpha(VIPbuyPanel, 0.96) 
  
GUIEditoredit = guiCreateEdit(9, 31, 115, 36, "", false, VIPbuyPanel) 
GUIEditorbutton = guiCreateButton(134, 29, 85, 38, "Buy VIP", false, VIPbuyPanel) 
guiSetProperty(VIPbuyPanel, "NormalTextColour", "FFAAAAAA") 
GUIEditorlabel = guiCreateLabel(10, 79, 209, 21, "Enter how many VIP days you want", false, VIPbuyPanel) 
GUIEditorlabel = guiCreateLabel(10, 100, 55, 17, "VIP costs:", false, VIPbuyPanel) 
GUIEditorlabel = guiCreateLabel(69, 100, 78, 17, "N/A", false, VIPbuyPanel) 
GUIEditorlabel = guiCreateLabel(9, 124, 60, 18, "Total cost:", false, VIPbuyPanel) 
GUIEditorlabel = guiCreateLabel(75, 124, 78, 18, "", false, VIPbuyPanel) 
  
function onVIPPressBuy() 
local PlayerMoney = getPlayerMoney(getLocalPlayer()) 
local amount = guiGetText(GUIEditoredit) 
local theAmount = amount*30000 
if ( PlayerMoney >= theAmount ) then 
if ( amount >= 1 ) then 
triggerServerEvent("buyVIP", source) 
guiSetVisible(VIPbuyPanel, false) 
    showCursor(false) 
    guiSetInputEnabled(false) 
else 
outputChatBox("You don´t have enough money for" ..amount.. "days of VIP", getLocalPlayer()) 
end 
end 
end 
addEventHandler("onClientGUIClick", GUIEditorbutton, onVIPPressBuy) 
  
function openGUIbuy() 
if guiGetVisible(VIPbuyPanel) then 
guiSetVisible(VIPbuyPanel, false) 
    showCursor(false) 
    guiSetInputEnabled(false) 
else 
guiSetVisible(VIPbuyPanel, true) 
    showCursor(true) 
    guiSetInputEnabled(true) 
end 
end 
addEvent("show",true) 
addEventHandler("show", getLocalPlayer(),openGUIbuy) 

Will something like this work?