Do not wait until the player leaves to save the number of tokens that they have earned whilst playing, as the server may suffer a fatal crash before then. Therefore, you should deal with the data as quickly as possible to avoid losing it. Unfortunately, Garry's mod servers aren't predictable - they can easily crash without warning or become overloaded. In case you couldn't tell, there is an over-arching theme here: Never trust the client. This is why we must use identification such as Player:SteamID's, since they can never be changed by the client. If we wanted to store a client's health when they log off, and we used their steam names as identification, what's stopping them from changing it before they next log on? Nothing. Let's say we started letting clients keep track of their money what's stopping them from adding a few zeros on the end?Īlways use identification that the client can't manipulate. Keep all data backed up on the server as this is the only way that you can be sure that the data is authentic. Never trust data that has been handled by a client. When handling any data, there are some rules that we should follow: In this tutorial, we will go over File Based Storage. There are multiple ways of storing data in Garry's Mod.
If you need to give data to the client, make sure to keep a backup of it on the server! Only store, save, change, and load data from the server. This file and the next one you'll open will have the GLua syntax.Never trust the client with data. Open a lua file and go to view > Apply Syntax Highlighting > Gmod Lua.
Copy the folder in which this README.txt is located, to the folder that just opened.It's a package that's disabled by default.) Installing manually: Paste the following line: "ignored_packages":.If you don't know how to do this, do this: This can be done by adding “Lua” to the ignored_packages setting. Otherwise the default Lua plugin will remain as the default syntax highlight for all.
When using sublime text 3 you will have to disable the default Lua plugin. GLua syntax highlighting in sublime Installing throught the package manager:
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