Newspaper Item

[Sokoloft]

I want to make something to were I can make like a newspaper and put text into it and make it so it goes to every players inventory in the realm. Almost like a newspaper type thing, and how do I make it so I can update it every week? What i'm trying to say is that I want pretty much a piece of paper to spawn in players inventory every week, that I can put information like updates and stuff like that. Or if I could use the mailboxes that would work to. Please help! PS, i'm using arcemu.

[stoneharry]

You could do something like this:

local News_ID = 192 -- Change to the ID of your newspaper

function Update_Newspaper_Timer()
    for a, plrs in pairs(GetPlayersInWorld()) do -- Get all the players in the world
        if plrs:HasItem(News_ID) == false then
            plrs:AddItem(News_ID, 1) -- Add 1 of the news ID if the player doesn't have one already
            plrs:SendBroadcastMessage("The latest newspaper was added to your inventory!")
            plrs:SendAreaTriggerMessage("The latest newspaper was added to your inventory!")
        end
    end
end

RegisterTimedEvent("Update_Newspaper_Timer", 30000, 0) -- Call the function every 30 seconds

That directly adds to inventory, if you find out how the mail system works you could use:

CharDBQuery("INSERT INTO `mail` VALUES `"..player:GetGUID()..",1,2525,Hello,This Is a message")

etc etc

That would currently work as a Lua script, although take it as pseudo code.

If it was used as a Lua script then you could use the reloading function to reload the script when you change the item ID so you don't need to restart the server for changes to take effect.

Alternatively, you could simply have it read the first line of a text file and get the ID from that every x seconds. You wouldn't need to read it every 30 seconds either (as that puts more load on server resources if you care about that sort of thing). Have a separate function that calls every 600 seconds instead and have that update the local variable to the ID read from the text file.

[Sokoloft]

Okay, so that would pretty much insert it into there inventory. So what I could do is go on wow-v and make a book item, put that ever text I wanted into that item and put an id for it, like say 21 and change the code from

local News_ID = 21 -- Change to the ID of your newspaper

and btw, i'm kinda new at lua coding, so would I keep the information thats after the --

[stoneharry]

Yes and up to you. -- = a comment, so wherever there is -- anything after that on the same line is ignored (only for you to read as it explains stuff).

[Sokoloft]

Okay, thanks very much!