[TheDOO]

Ok I've been trying to make a chat triggered motd display but I am having some problems. I make it so when a person says !motd it displays the contents of rules.txt.

I want it to read rules.txt but server side. When I test the plugin with a dedicated server having rules.txt, but the client doesn't, when they say !motd nothing shows up. The only way I fixed around it is having the client download rules.txt when they join but there has to be a way to display it to them without them actually having the file. Am I going the wrong way about this?

Here's the code, bare with because it's my 1st one.

public OnPluginStart()
{
	RegConsoleCmd("say", Command_OnSay);
}

public Action:Command_OnSay(client, args)
{
	decl String:text[192];
	GetCmdArgString(text, sizeof(text));
	
	new startidx;
	
	if (text[strlen(text)-1] == '"')
	{
		text[strlen(text)-1] = '\0';
		startidx = 1;
	}

	if (strcmp(text[startidx], "!motd", false) == 0)
	{
		ShowMotd(client);
	}

	return Plugin_Continue;
}

public Action:ShowMotd(client)
{
	ShowMOTDPanel(client, "Server rules", "rules.txt", MOTDPANEL_TYPE_FILE);

	return Plugin_Handled;
}

[KMFrog]

humm looks ok to me, the rules.txt would have to be located next to the original motd.txt on the server though.. is this your problem?

you could also try things like "\rules.txt"

[TheDOO]

Yeah the rules.txt is in the same folder as motd.txt. But when someone says !motd it just shows a blank MOTD panel, but when I do it, since I have the file, it shows up.

[TheDOO]

Ok the more I look at it, it seems it has something to do with the Source engine? Does it handle the MOTD different than in Half-life? I look at an AMX mod X plugin that shows the motd from chat trigger and the code is pretty much just like mine, but the file it reads is from the server, while mine is reading clientside.

[TheDOO]

No one has any ideas?

[TFN|Nick]

Does your rules.txt have html in it?? I know on my server my MOTD file has been really picky about html and what/how it shows. Usually if we make a change that it doesn't like it just won't display It may be worth just running some basic phrases in rules.txt and seeing if they show up.

[KMFrog]

you may have to change the file extension to .html as well?

[TheDOO]

Even if I put just one word in rules.txt, it doesn't show to anyone other than me. If i make it .html, instead of a blank MOTD panel, it shows a blank webpage.

[TheDOO]

I'm guessing the only solution is hosting on a website and make it point to that? I'd really rather have it read from the server, but nothing I try seems to work.

I look at some old amx mod x plugins and they seemed to display files from the server fine in a motd, but my code seems unable.

[TFN|Nick]

You could try it a different way:

PHP Code:

public Action:ShowMotd(client)
{
    new Handle:f_MOTD = OpenFile("rules.txt", "rt");
     
    ShowMOTDPanel(client, "Server rules", f_MOTD, MOTDPANEL_TYPE_FILE);
    
    CloseHandle(f_MOTD)
    return Plugin_Handled;
} 


Worth a try...