Client side variables on server side

[pa3ck]

Hi again, is there any way to use client side variables on server side? Like GUI is on client side, I got a text from the GUIEditBox and I would like to use that message on server side, to let everybody see the message he typed in. But I got nil for the variable on server side.

[Chopper]

Use:

triggerClientEvent 

from serverside.

[Skurken]

Actually it's triggerServerEvent that he needs.

triggerServerEvent 

[pa3ck]

Thanks guys for the replies, but I'm still not sure about any of them. What I understood is that, triggerServerEvent triggers an event on server side (I'm genius!). But I'm still not sure how is that going to let me use client side variables. Or can I trigger a whole function like?

[Skurken]

You can send a the vars to server-side.

triggerServerEvent('event', root, variable) 

[xXMADEXx]

Here are examples that might help you.

Example 1 - triggerServerEvent

-- Client 
local v = math.random ( 0, 9999 ) 
triggerServerEvent ( "theServerEvent", localPlayer, v ) 
  
-- Server 
addEvent ( "theServerEvent", true ) 
addEventHandler ( "theServerEvent", root, function ( v ) 
    outputChatBox ( "You have generated "..tostring ( v ) )   
end ) 

Example 2 - triggerClientEvent

-- Server 
local v = math.random ( 0, 255 ) 
local p = getRandomPlayer ( ) 
triggerClientEvent ( p, 'theclienteventname', p, v ) 
  
-- Client 
addEvent ( "theclienteventname", true ) 
addEventHandler ( "theclienteventname", root, function ( v ) 
    outputChatBox ( "You have been picked!! Heres a random number: "..tostring ( v ) ) 
end ) 

[pa3ck]

Oh, I got it! Thanks very much, appreciated!

[pa3ck]

Actually I would have one more question. What if I need to trigger a server side event and a variable as well? What I want to do is if I click on a GUI button an event will be triggered and I will call that event from server side, so something is going to happen. In my case it will output something in the chatbox. What I want to output is a variable from client side, I'm not quite sure how to do that... Could anyone give me an idea?

  
--Client side 
  
local idd = guiGetText(skinEdit) 
skinvEditID = tonumber(idd) 
  
triggerServerEvent('boughtSkin', localPlayer, skinvEditID) 
  
--Server side 
  
addEvent('boughtSkin', true) 
  
addEventHandler('boughtSkin', root, function( skinvEditID ) 
    outputChatBox('Server: a guy got a new skin with the ID of: ' .. skinvEditID ) 
    end 
) 
  

This code is not working, it says skinvEditID is nil, so cant concatinate it.

Edited October 3, 2013 by Guest

[Castillo]

And what does it return on the client side? have you checked if it isn't also returning 'nil'?

[pa3ck]

Its funny, it worked then I restarted the script ( made no changes ) and now it says the same thing. And on client side it is working as it sets the player model with this code:

  
setElementModel(thePlayer, skinvEditID) 
  

I have no clue whats the problem here.

[Castillo]

When exactly are you triggering this event?

[pa3ck]

When the button is pressed, but I figured it out, thanks for the help, really appreciated! BTW: the code I included was right, the other half of the code was wrong, I got it now! ( shame on me )

Thanks for the help again, this is a lovely and helpfull community.