Compiled my coding questions into one topic for less spam. Updated:1/3/11

[Lugnut]

I understand that it is as follows to send a message to every client in the server:
messageall('',%text);
However, I wish to utilize the first argument, yet modifying it seems to do nothing. What is it for?

Secondly, the following command will permanently ban a person with the id of '1' with a reason of "Reason".
What is the first argument, with a value of 0, for?
commandtoserver('ban',0,1,-1,"Reason");

1/3/11
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[Amade]

1: That is the message type. The only example of a registered message type I can think of off the top of my head is MsgAdminForce, which will cause a sound to be played on receiving clients.

2: That would be the object ID of the victim client.

[Lugnut]

2: That would be the object ID of the victim client.

How would this help me?
If I somehow didn't have the bl_id or something, I could do
talk(findclientbyname(target)); and put the result there?

Sounds like a lot of work.

[FFSO]

Arguments for 'ban' argument 1 means the player name argument 2 means the ID argument 3 means the time of the ban and argument 4 is a one letter word that identifies the ban reason.

[Orthone]

Arguments for 'ban' argument 1 means the player name argument 2 means the ID argument 3 means the time of the ban and argument 4 is a one letter word that identifies the ban reason.

string that identifies the ban reason*

[FFSO]

string that identifies the ban reason*

yes but the string is usually a word.

[Chrono]

I have no idea where you're getting "one letter word" from. It can be a string of any length as long as it doesn't exceed the packet size.

[Placid]

yes but the string is usually a word.

if you look up "define string" on google the first somewhat-related thing is "series"
series =/= 1

[Katadeus]

Then where's the one letter part coming in? I don't understand this at all.

[Ipquarx]

On the banlist, it will only show either the player name or BLID, with BLID being used if a blid is put in, this is true unless you ban from the admin menu.

It's not 1 letter, it can be a string of almost any size, like "undehmbxsrfx" or "hello" or "q"

[Lugnut]

and if you put quotes around it like I did in the OP it can be multi word too

[FFSO]

Oh woops I mistyped it, it has to be one full word but if you want it to be multiple words you have to use the underscore _ instead of spaces.

[Headcrab Zombie]

Oh woops I mistyped it, it has to be one full word but if you want it to be multiple words you have to use the underscore _ instead of spaces.

Only if you're typing it in the chat
If you're manually calling it, you don't need underscores

[Chrono]

Oh woops I mistyped it, it has to be one full word but if you want it to be multiple words you have to use the underscore _ instead of spaces.

This is coding help.

You can use spaces in anything but chat.
Things about typing commands in chat don't go in coding help.

I don't want to be mean, but unless you really know what you're talking about, you shouldn't help here.

[Lugnut]

I'm confused now.

Can you put underscores instead of spaces in ingame chat for multi-word commands to put spaces?
rephrase:are underscores replaced with spaces in ingame commands?