ply:isUserGroup advice

[Tomzen]

Hello, instead of using a password for my "ServerMode" (thanks to JamminR for the reminder), I would be using ply:isUserGroup, but I was wondering wether you could use a code like this for example:

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RANKS = {"admin","owner"}
if not ply:isUserGroup( RANKS ) then
    ply:kick( "bleh" )
end
or would this not work:

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ply:isUserGroup( RANKS )
and I would have to use:

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ply:isUserGroup("admin") or ply:isUserGroup("owner") then ...
Help here would help a lot
Thanks.

[Zmaster]

I did something like this for an addon I made for a friend a while ago

Although I never tried using an if statement like that, I'm 99% sure that won't work
Here's how I would do it while still using tables like you are
table.HasValue

Player:GetUserGroup

[MrPresident]

It would return an error.
"string expected ... returned table"

The proper way to do it, would be as Zmaster states. Use those 2 functions to create your check.

[Tomzen]

Thanks Zmaster, another question:

How would I get it to ONLY activate when "maintenance mode" is activated, the only way I could think of is to create a ulx command that changes a variable to true or something... like "active = true", but when a map is changed, or server restarted this would be reset back to false wouldn't it?

example:

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function playerJoin( ply )
if active == true then
...
but as I said, if the map has changed or server restarted then the "active" would be reset back to false

[Aaron113]

http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/gameevent/Listen
https://github.com/Nayruden/Ulysses/blob/052983fb132af59859784d3d6320ccdba01fe802/ulib/lua/ulib/server/ucl.lua#L562-L573

That is literally everything you need to do this.  It won't even let them download files.

I got ninja'd, but for the mode being saved, you could just create a cvar or save to a data file.

[Tomzen]

http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/gameevent/Listen
https://github.com/Nayruden/Ulysses/blob/052983fb132af59859784d3d6320ccdba01fe802/ulib/lua/ulib/server/ucl.lua#L562-L573

That is literally everything you need to do this.  It won't even let them download files.

I got ninja'd, but for the mode being saved, you could just create a cvar or save to a data file.

New to lua, could you post an example? or perhaps link to another add-on that's used that before.

[Tomzen]

Would the following work:

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CreateConVar( "server_mode", "1" )
(server_mode 1 to enable) and to turn it off just add another but with 0?

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CreateConVar( "server_mode", "0" )
and to read it:

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if GetConVarNumber( "server_mode" ) == 1 then
...
Is this right?