GetPlayers() returning empty table

FiveM Resource Development & Modding Discussion
1

I don’t know if I’m just missing something here or what.

AddEventHandler("chatMessage", function(player, playerName, message)
	if message == "test" then
		local players = GetPlayers()
		print(#players)
		CancelEvent()
	end
end)

returns an empty table every time even though I’m clearly on the server typing test in the chat.

2

What’s the rest of the code look like? I’ve just tested this (copy pasted what you had) with no problems.

3

It’s suppose to return a table of all the players id’s right?

The code I gave you is all I got, the resource is called test, and it has only one server side lua file called test with that code in it. It seems when I join and type test, it will show one player in the table with an id of 1. If I disconnect and rejoin then type test again, now it will still show one player in the server but I will still have the id 1 instead of 2 as it shows on the scoreboard. This is literally the only resource I have loaded, everything else is the same as when I downloaded the server.

4

Yes

I don’t know how all the internals work. sorry. As far as I know, the IDs in the GetPlayers() array should work for server-side interactions with clients (e.g. TriggerClientEvent) and other server-side functions that require the players ID (e.g. GetPlayerName).

5

Isn’t this what you are looking for?
From scoreboard script if I am not wrong.

function GetPlayers()
  local players = {}
  	for i = 0, 31 do
      if NetworkIsPlayerActive(i) then
				table.insert(players, i)
			end
		end
	return players
end
6

That’s for client side. He’s calling the built-in server-side function.

7

Ahh ok, sorry then for misunderstanding. :slight_smile: