This function is used to get the ACL group with the given name. If you need most of the groups you should consider using aclGroupList instead to get a table containing them all.

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• Method: ACLGroup.get(...)

Syntax

aclgroup|false aclGetGroup ( string groupName )

Required Arguments

• groupName: The name to get the ACL group from.

Returns

• aclgroup|false: acl group

Returns the aclgroup if it could be found. Returns false/nil if it did not exist or failed for some reason.

Code Examples

Example 1 Example 2 (OOP) Example 3 Example 4 (OOP)

server

This example makes every player able to use a command named giveAccountAdminRights that will add a specific accountname as an ACL object to the Admin group.

local function giveAdminRights (playerSource, commandName, accountName) --add the function giveAdminRights and specify its arguments
  if (accountName) then --if there was an accountName entered then
    aclGroupAddObject(aclGetGroup("Admin"), "user."..accountName)) --add an ACL object using the form "user.[accountName]" to the ACL group "Admin"
    outputChatBox("Account '"..accountName.."' succesfully added to the admin group", playerSource) --output a notification to the player who entered the command that the acocunt was successfully added
  else --else output an error message and the correct syntax of the command to the player who entered it
    outputChatBox("No account name specified.", playerSource)
    outputChatBox("Correct syntax: /giveAccountAdminRights [accountName]", playerSource)
  end
end
addCommandHandler("giveAccountAdminRights", giveAdminRights) --add a command "giveAccountAdminRights" and attch the function "giveAdminRights" to it

server

OOP Required

This example makes every player able to use a command named giveAccountAdminRights that will add a specific accountname as an ACL object to the Admin group.

local function giveAdminRights (playerSource, commandName, accountName) --add the function giveAdminRights and specify its arguments
  if (accountName) then --if there was an accountName entered then
    local adminGroup = ACLGroup.get("Admin")
    if (adminGroup) then
      adminGroup:addObject("user."..accountName)
      playerSource:outputChat("Account '"..accountName.."' succesfully added to the admin group") --output a notification to the player who entered the command that the acocunt was successfully added
    end
  else --else output an error message and the correct syntax of the command to the player who entered it
    playerSource:outputChat("No account name specified.")
    playerSource:outputChat("Correct syntax: /giveAccountAdminRights [accountName]")
  end
end
addCommandHandler("giveAccountAdminRights", giveAdminRights) --add a command "giveAccountAdminRights" and attch the function "giveAdminRights" to it

server

This example displays a list of all the online admins in the chat box (assuming your administrator's group in your ACL is called 'Admin').

addCommandHandler("admins", function(plr, cmd)
   local admins = ""
   for k,v in ipairs(getElementsByType("player")) do
      local account = getPlayerAccount(v)
      if (account and not isGuestAccount(account)) then
         if (isObjectInACLGroup("user."..getAccountName(account), aclGetGroup("Admin"))) then
            if (admins == "") then
               admins = getPlayerName(v)
            else
               admins = admins..", "..getPlayerName(v)
            end
         end
      end
   end

   outputChatBox("Online admins: ", plr, 255, 255, 0)
   outputChatBox(admins, plr, 255, 255, 0)
end)

server

OOP Required

This example displays a list of all the online admins in the chat box (assuming your administrator's group in your ACL is called 'Admin').

addCommandHandler("admins", function(plr, cmd)
   local admins = ""
   for k,v in ipairs(Element.getAllByType("player")) do
      local account = v.account
      if (account and not account.guest) then
         local adminGroup = ACLGroup.get("Admin")
         if (adminGroup and adminGroup:doesContainObject("user."..account.name)) then
            if (admins == "") then
               admins = v.name
            else
               admins = admins..", "..v.name
            end
         end
      end
   end

   plr:outputChat("Online admins: ", 255, 255, 0)
   plr:outputChat(admins, 255, 255, 0)
end)

See Also

ACL Functions

• aclCreate
• aclCreateGroup
• aclDestroy
• aclDestroyGroup
• aclGet
• aclGetName
• aclGetRight
• aclGetGroup
• aclGroupAddACL
• aclGroupAddObject
• aclGroupGetName
• aclGroupList
• aclGroupListObjects
• aclGroupListACL
• aclGroupRemoveACL
• aclGroupRemoveObject
• aclList
• aclListRights
• aclObjectGetGroups
• aclReload
• aclRemoveRight
• aclSave
• aclSetRight
• hasObjectPermissionTo
• isObjectInACLGroup

ACL Elements

• acl
• aclgroup

Reference

• Scripting Functions