How does system.GetCountry() work?

[iViscosity]

Just realized... I make a lot of threads here.


Anyways, I was wondering how system.GetCountry() works. I want to have it so that when someone joins a server, they will see {the 2 letter country code} | "their name" has joined. I've tried using this:

Code: Lua

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2.  
3. if SERVER then
4.  
5.  
6.    util.AddNetworkString( "Get Country" )
7.  
8.  
9.    net.Receive( "Get Country", function( len, pl )
10.    
11.       userCountry = net.ReadString()
12.       print( userCountry ) -- Tried to debug. Nothing prints.
13.  
14.  
15.    end )
16.  
17.  
18. end  
19.  
20.  
21. if CLIENT then
22.  
23.  
24.    hook.Add( "PlayerConnect", "GetCountry", function( name, ip )
25.  
26.  
27.       net.Start( "Get Country" )
28.          net.WriteString( system.GetCountry() )
29.       net.SendToServer()
30.  
31.  
32.       for k,v in pairs( player.GetAll() ) do
33.  
34.  
35.          if IsValid( v ) then
36.  
37.  
38.             v:PrintMessage( HUD_PRINTTALK, "{" .. userCountry .. "} | " .. name .. " has connected." )
39.  
40.  
41.          end
42.  
43.  
44.       end
45.  
46.  
47.    end )
48.  
49.  
50.    hook.Add( "OnPlayerChat", "Add Country to Chat", function( ply, strText, bTeamOnly, bPlayerIsDead )
51.  
52.  
53.       local tab = {}
54.  
55.  
56.       if ( bPlayerIsDead ) then
57.  
58.  
59.          table.insert( tab, Color( 255, 30, 40 ) )
60.          table.insert( tab, "*DEAD* " )
61.          table.insert( tab, Color( 255, 255, 255 ) )
62.  
63.  
64.       end
65.  
66.  
67.       if userCountry != nil then
68.  
69.  
70.          table.insert( tab, "{" .. userCountry .. "} | " )
71.  
72.  
73.       end
74.  
75.  
76.       if ( IsValid( ply ) ) then
77.  
78.  
79.          table.insert( tab, ply )
80.  
81.  
82.       else
83.  
84.  
85.          table.insert( tab, "Console" )
86.  
87.  
88.       end
89.  
90.  
91.       table.insert( tab, Color( 255, 255, 255 ) )
92.       table.insert( tab, ": "..strText )
93.  
94.  
95.       chat.AddText( unpack( tab ) )
96.  
97.  
98.       return true
99.  
100.  
101.    end )
102.  
103.  
104. end

Using the help of the code here but it doesn't print anything. It has no errors, it just doesn't do anything. I put PlayerConnect hook in the CLIENT as it's shared, so I thought it could, because I thought I could run system.GetCountry() in the client and it will get the client's system information, but that didn't work. I have this in

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garrysmod/addons/Viscosity%20Command/lua/autorun/get_country.lua, is there somewhere else I should put it or is this just not how this function works?

[JamminR]

Few things I see quickly;
You're setting a variable (userCountry) on the server.
You're then attempting to use the variable on a client side hook (OnPlayerChat).
There's some more that I can't decipher, but that's a big start.

[iViscosity]

Derp I can just use PlayerSay can't I since that's a serverside hook that does the same thing? I'll try that out tomorrow..