local playerHealth = getPlayerHealth(playerid) ✅ – Never trust player input in commands. Use tonumber() and bounds checking.
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function onPlayerCommand(playerid, cmd, text) if cmd == "kick" then -- Check if admin level is at least 1 if adminLevel[playerid] >= 1 then local targetid = tonumber(text) if targetid and isPlayerConnected(targetid) then kickPlayer(targetid) sendClientMessage(playerid, 0xFF0000FF, "Player kicked.") else sendClientMessage(playerid, 0xFF0000FF, "Usage: /kick [playerid]") end else sendClientMessage(playerid, 0xFF0000FF, "You are not authorized.") end return 1 end return 0 end ✅ Use Local Variables – They’re faster than globals. You can use this for a blog post,
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While PAWN is the default language for SA-MP, Lua has taken the community by storm thanks to mods like and SampLua . It’s faster, easier to learn, and incredibly powerful for creating dynamic admin systems, minigames, and Anti-Cheats.
-- Admin levels stored in a table adminLevel = {} function onPlayerConnect(playerid) -- New players have level 0 adminLevel[playerid] = 0 -- Give admin to player ID 0 for testing if playerid == 0 then adminLevel[playerid] = 1 end end
✅ – Lua is fast, but while true do end will freeze your server.