Custom command to open a webpage

[Prentice]

Hey,
I was wondering how I could set it so that if someone typed "!donate" for example it would open "http://myurl.com/donate" in a motd type window?
Any support would be appreciated...
Thanks!

[MrPresident]

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function DonateMOTD( ply, text, _ )

    if ( string.sub( string.lower( text ), 1, 7 ) == "!donate" ) then
local url = "\"http://www.google.com\""
ply:ConCommand( "ulx motd " .. url )
return false
    end

end
hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "DonateMOTD", DonateMOTD )




^^
Not tested.. but it should work?

You could put this in a file and drop it in your garrysmod/lua/autorun/server folder.

[Prentice]

That code just opens my motd

[bender180]

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function donateCommand( pl, text, teamonly )
    if (text == "!donate") then
    pl:SendLua([[gui.OpenURL("http://myurl.com/donate")]]) -- Change ADDRESS to your chosen page.
    for k, v in pairs(player.GetAll()) do v:ChatPrint( "Player " .. pl:Nick() .. " has donated to the server via !donate" )

end
end
end
hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "Chat", donateCommand )
Like MrPresident said,
You could put this in a file and drop it in your garrysmod/lua/autorun/server folder.

[Deemony07]

When i did that. I typed !donate and it didnt open the url. It just said Deemoney07 donated.

[nathan736]

do you have steam in game on (shift + tab)

[LuaTenshi]

do you have steam in game on (shift + tab)

Yes he does how ever he wants a window to show his donation page when some says "!donate" on his server.

Speaking of the steam in-game menu, what ever happened to being able to open a webpage through a game, it was in Portal 2, but I have never seen it again ever sense...

[nathan736]

im confused can't you do this in gmod ? 

[LuaTenshi]

im confused can't you do this in gmod ? 

It depends on how you want the webpage to open, how ever I am yet to see a lua function that actually initialises shift+tab and then opens a webpage. How ever you can still open webpages just fine through Gmods GUI.

[nathan736]

oh well i had it working fine on my server a few days ago lol ?

[Twiztidkiller]

I hate to bump, but this thread seemed lik a good spot to ask this question.
I have the above given lua script installed, but when Me and/or my friends use the !donate command, it tosses this into my console.

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[ERROR] LuaCmd:1: unfinished string near '<eof>'
  1. unknown - LuaCmd:0


[nathan736]

its because you  screwed up the "" so the code cant find the end of the string so it yells <censor>WHAT?!<censor> we cant find the end if this string.... simple error just fix your " "

ps: when ever you get <eof> you 9/10 did something wrong or removed something when your editing existing code like the important things here
 end "string" , -- if for
pss: heres a easier version to work with

local myurl = "http://www.google.com"     -- "http://YOUR-URL.com"
function donateCommand( pl, text, teamonly )
          if (text == "!donate") then
             pl:SendLua([[gui.OpenURL(myurl)]]) -- Change ADDRESS to your chosen page.
             for k, v in pairs(player.GetAll()) do v:ChatPrint( "Player " .. pl:Nick() .. " has donated to the server via !donate" )

      end
   end
end
hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "Chat", donateCommand )

[Twiztidkiller]

Ahh, ok. So then, with my current code being this.

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function donateCommand( pl, text, teamonly )
    if (text == "!donate") then
    pl:SendLua([[gui.OpenURL(http://cur.lv/mifq)]]) -- Change ADDRESS to your chosen page.
    for k, v in pairs(player.GetAll()) do v:ChatPrint( "Player " .. pl:Nick() .. " has considered donating $1.00 to the cause!" )

end
end
end
hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "Chat", donateCommand )
I would instead want this.

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function donateCommand( pl, text, teamonly )
    if (text == "!donate") then
    pl:SendLua([[gui.OpenURL("http://myurl.com/donate")]]) -- Change ADDRESS to your chosen page.
    for k, v in pairs(player.GetAll()) do v:ChatPrint( "Player " .. pl:Nick() .. " has donated to the server via !donate" )

end
end
end
hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "Chat", donateCommand )
I notice the bottom *correct* one has both of these "", which I'm guessing makes the difference?

[nathan736]

yeah that would fix it  you MUST have the "" or your not  telling it a url(a string) your telling it a var (which im 90% would throw a billion errors anyways)