[EpicKiller]

Hi there! How can I make a VIP plugin based on a file? I mean a file with the names, ips, steamids or something of the vips, so no specific admin flags would be needed.
Let's say it's "vips.txt", located in configs. How could I do that? I'm guessing nvault, but I have extremely poor knowledge in nvault and formatting text. So could you please explain me and maybe give me an example of how would that work?

[wickedd]

There's a plugin on the forum that does this already, take a look at for reference.

[HamletEagle]

Simple, on server startup read the file, push all the identifiers(vip steamid) in a trie. When a player connect get his steamid and check if it exists into the trie(you can use that steamid as a key and simply use TrieSetCell(Trie, steamid, 0)). If true, set a bool to true, you will know he is vip.

[EpicKiller]

Thank you, guys!

[fysiks]

Originally Posted by HamletEagle Simple, on server startup read the file, push all the identifiers(vip steamid) in a trie. When a player connect get his steamid and check if it exists into the trie(you can use that steamid as a key and simply use TrieSetCell(Trie, steamid, 0)). If true, set a bool to true, you will know he is vip.

You should use TrieKeyExists() to check if the person is in the trie and thus has VIP status. Use TrieSetCell(trie, steamid, 1) when reading the file (the value here doesn't matter since it's not being used).

The way you stated it was confusing.

[grs4]

Why you always want to use tries ? Why u dont want to using default arrays ? (new asd[33][33]) I always hearing that tries, and dynamic arrays are bettter. (faster? how faster? They are using includes, and i think that this have to take more time than using build-in compiler arrays) [Sorry for english]

[fysiks]

Originally Posted by grs4 Why you always want to use tries ? Why u dont want to using default arrays ? (new asd[33][33]) I always hearing that tries, and dynamic arrays are bettter. (faster? how faster? They are using includes, and i think that this have to take more time than using build-in compiler arrays) [Sorry for english]

Tries are much faster than arrays when you simply want to check if a string is in a list. Arrays are faster than dynamic arrays but dynamic arrays are dynamically sizable (unlike traditional arrays). Without using a Trie, you would have to use a loop to loop through every single string in the array using the equal[i]() command. This is very time consuming, exponentially so when you get larger and larger lists or you need to do it often.

So, using Tries is a solution to both the size and speed issues. Lists of SteamIDs for this type of purpose should be in a Trie.

Read the post by JoaquimAndrade in the Code Snippets/Tutorials forum regarding Tries.

[grs4]

Thanks for simple answer for my question ! Of course I readed many topic about tries, and it is dettering(?[deters]) me him build. Though my 3,5 years experience of PAWN i never used TRIES or Dynamic Arrays. i was always using arrays, because the code was clean for read. I'm having my Tower Defense Mod, where (o think) better will be use tries/dynamic arrays, but my knowledge of english, and advance vaculbary of your tutorials blocks me for understand tries -> keys -> values, cellsize .. omg... [sorry for english] Thanks again for answerm and to the topic: I think that @HamletEagle put to you the most better solution.